~600$ Notebook for girlfriend? (not for gaming)
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KillerCrocker




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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Feb 2014 13:18    Post subject: ~600$ Notebook for girlfriend? (not for gaming)
Hi guys. My gf terrible netbook finally broke and she wants me to look for notebook. Normal sizes 15 inch. Black Laughing

I dont have any fucking clue about cheap notebooks components. I only know about normal stuff, but since I never seen notebook i3 or i5 in action I have no idea what performance to expect. I also don't know what brand have good models.


I did a quick look and it seems that most common are Lenovo i3(4threads, intel, 1tb, 4gb) are cheapest.

She is not playing games. only internet, movies and writing (so decent keyboard would be nice)

so my pinpoints are)
-500, 600$. maybe a little more if its worth it
-15inch
-sturdy and possibly not falling apart in hands
-decent keyboard
-dont need an os included I guess but dont have anything against win8
-not sure if intel or gpu will make any difference. bejeweld3 is going to work on both


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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Feb 2014 13:49    Post subject:
http://shop.lenovo.com/de/de/laptops/ideapad/u-series/u430p/ 600 euro so a bit over budget :/

Else go for anything not ultrabooky they have nice prices on them


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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Feb 2014 13:59    Post subject:
yeah that stretches it a bit too far. 500-600$ is not exactly 600euro

I mean, if it would be really worth it, We would consider getting it on installment plan.

I also thing about Lenovo Flex 14. it also stretches the budget tho.


So basically Lenovo? Those are good laptops now ?


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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Feb 2014 16:52    Post subject:
hmmm. Dunno. Dell laptops are always well built but I dunno. there was always something off with dell laptop when I used one. Like broken hinge or smth


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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Feb 2014 19:06    Post subject:
why not go to your local Lombard ... and check if they have some laptops write those names ... post them here and we will tell you what is what

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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Feb 2014 20:46    Post subject:
Lenovo G500/s looks okish. It have nvidia 720 as secondary gpu, 1tb drive and i3-3120m which is one of best i3 processors. (which doesnt say much)


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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Feb 2014 21:35    Post subject:
In any case don't buy sony. They are hot and loud and they also gave up their pc business and sold everything related to it.


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PostPosted: Sun, 9th Feb 2014 21:47    Post subject:
Yeah figured that out, since they left pc business


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PostPosted: Tue, 18th Feb 2014 22:22    Post subject:
Ok, I got her lenovo g510.
It have i3-4000m
1tb drive
4gb ram
r5 m230 amd card
and intel 4600 as normal card


It came with windows 8 and and all bloatware shit.... jesus fuck it is terrible system. i can't find or set anything easitly. Everything is hard to find and navigate.... what were they thinking... And i couldnt even acces the bios. It was all governed by win8 and some uefi startup. I had to switch back to legacy bios startup. Deleted 5 (FIVE) hidded restore partitions and installed windows 7 64bit. (funny thing is that the morons made C: drive 800gb by default and d drive only 20... wtf. I made it all normal ahci, 100C and everything else D.


Anyway. I am having problems with drivers as fuck on this thing. Lenovo site have some bad drivers. Cant instal both graphics card and I think chipsed drivers is bad..
Found out that drivers for intel 4600 I had to install were win8 drivers from lenovo site... now it works. Any ideas where and how to search for newest proper drivers? anything else I should know about usage of laptop like that ?


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PostPosted: Tue, 18th Feb 2014 22:53    Post subject:
Should just stick to win8 IMO... just install a start button thing (I use something called StartW8) and you barely notice it's not win7.
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PostPosted: Tue, 18th Feb 2014 22:58    Post subject:
idk... everything was terrible and weird. But I guess there is no installing it again is it ? Laughing
There is no key or anything on backside of laptop... and I had to delete it ebcasue of fucking useless recovery partition and 800gb system partition


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PostPosted: Wed, 19th Feb 2014 00:13    Post subject:
ok I've got everything I need... just where the fuck do I ding drivers for r5 230m drivers ?!
Cant find mobility drivers on amd site


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PostPosted: Wed, 19th Feb 2014 00:26    Post subject:
Just pick amd mobility radeon HD 5000 or newer. Its always the same package anyway.


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PostPosted: Wed, 19th Feb 2014 00:32    Post subject:
nope. No mobility drivers even for hd5000 wtf amd


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PostPosted: Wed, 19th Feb 2014 00:51    Post subject:
KillerCrocker wrote:
idk... everything was terrible and weird. But I guess there is no installing it again is it ? Laughing
There is no key or anything on backside of laptop... and I had to delete it ebcasue of fucking useless recovery partition and 800gb system partition


As far as I know the key is on the bios and if you install win8 it will automatically pick it up.

Also, does this laptop have a touchscreen? Cause if it does win8.1 makes much more sense, but without touch win7 is alright as long as you can fix the driver issues.
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KillerCrocker




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PostPosted: Wed, 19th Feb 2014 00:57    Post subject:
no touchscreen. key in bios ? how does that work ?

and still need help finding those amd mobility drivers for win7

so besides driver issues, its a really nice laptop Smile my gf seems happy with it. And people say that this r5 230m is not even remotely terrible for some games (which she doesnt plan on playing anyway) - not bad for 600$


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PostPosted: Wed, 19th Feb 2014 08:38    Post subject:
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/737-28041SupportforATIMobility.aspx


and that doesnt work for you?


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