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Old Oct 9, 2012, 03:38 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Liquid Cool View Post
Easy Rhino,

I think some specifics are in order when you ask open ended questions like this...

TF2 and L4D2 aren't very demanding games. I can play them quite easily with med-hi settings on 3-4 year old laptops.

What specifically are you going to use it for? How much do you want to spend...if the budget is tight, you can get a decent notebook from 350 to 500. If you want a graphics card added, it jumps to about 600-700. And - on up from there.

Refurbs are on sale right now at Dell(25% off), there are also major sales going on with the Lenovo's too(check SlickDeals). I personally bought a 3rd Gen Core i3 15.6 Inspiron this weekend for 330. The little lady will be pleased, it has a pink lid....

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LC
this will be for doing work while traveling which include some programming. the machine doesn't have to be super quick but there will be a lot of applications open so an i5 is at a minimum with 8 gigs of ram. the only reason i am asking about integrated graphics is because i want something light to carry around and i will want to ability to do some light gaming if i get an hour of downtime.
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