• I bought a new laptop
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How did I do for the price? $700 was my budget: [url]http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/u-series/u430p/?sb=:000001C9:00010E4D:[/url]
Entirely depends on what you use it for. It's not something I would buy though, the screen is too small.
It's not specifically for gaming or photo/video editing, so the 14" screen is fine with me. The larger screens also had keyboards with numpads, which mess up my typing (they keys are more left than normal).
Seems good for the price.
It looks like a pretty good laptop to me.
[QUOTE=The Worm;45242157]How did I do for the price? $700 was my budget: [url]http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/u-series/u430p/?sb=:000001C9:00010E4D:[/url][/QUOTE] I'd myself never go with intel HD graphics.
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;45250957]I'd myself never go with intel HD graphics.[/QUOTE] If you're not gaming or anything? Getting a dedicated card in a laptop is a waste of money. If I were to get a laptop, it'd just be an i5.
[QUOTE=Levelog;45251203]If you're not gaming or anything? Getting a dedicated card in a laptop is a waste of money. If I were to get a laptop, it'd just be an i5.[/QUOTE] Well it still helps performance, and there's really no reason to not get one. Intel HD graphics tend to be the bottleneck on otherwise good laptops like these.
why ask if you did a good job when you already bought it?
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;45251374]Well it still helps performance, and there's really no reason to not get one. Intel HD graphics tend to be the bottleneck on otherwise good laptops like these.[/QUOTE] Nah, hell in most laptops the dedicated is turned off if you're not doing something heavy. The integrated graphics for haswell is surprisingly good. My girlfriend can even play GW2 on low on her Sandy Bridge i3.
[QUOTE=Levelog;45251397]Nah, hell in most laptops the dedicated is turned off if you're not doing something heavy. The integrated graphics for haswell is surprisingly good. My girlfriend can even play GW2 on low on her Sandy Bridge i3.[/QUOTE] Well you could still do better, a small search brought up this [url]http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-572G-54L9-15-6-Inch-Platinum/dp/B00K81O3RW/ref=sr_1_6?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1404105921&sr=1-6[/url] [url]http://www.amazon.com/Acer-V5-552PG-X809-15-6-inch-Touchscreen-Champagne/dp/B00DKFFLH4/ref=sr_1_15?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1404105834&sr=1-15[/url] Which both have more powerful performance than the Intel Hd 4400, with lesser or on the first one, better processors, albeit it's unreleased. Or even this one, with a 1.7ghz and a 840m, which would have better performance for 100$ less. [url]http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-572G-587W-15-6-Inch-Platinum/dp/B00K81O3PY/ref=sr_1_1?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1404105921&sr=1-1[/url]
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;45250957]I'd myself never go with intel HD graphics.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't buy a laptop without either Intel HD Graphics, or some type of AMD APU. And I would never in a million years buy a laptop with Nvidia graphics. Different gear for different needs.
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;45251416]Well you could still do better, a small search brought up this [url]http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-572G-54L9-15-6-Inch-Platinum/dp/B00K81O3RW/ref=sr_1_6?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1404105921&sr=1-6[/url] [url]http://www.amazon.com/Acer-V5-552PG-X809-15-6-inch-Touchscreen-Champagne/dp/B00DKFFLH4/ref=sr_1_15?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1404105834&sr=1-15[/url] Which both have more powerful performance than the Intel Hd 4400, with lesser or on the first one, better processors, albeit it's unreleased. Or even this one, with a 1.7ghz and a 840m, which would have better performance for 100$ less. [url]http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-572G-587W-15-6-Inch-Platinum/dp/B00K81O3PY/ref=sr_1_1?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1404105921&sr=1-1[/url][/QUOTE] But... Acer. You get what you pay for. Maybe some better performance, but at the cost of a lot of quality and an absurdly shitty, locked down bios.
[QUOTE=nikomo;45251486]I wouldn't buy a laptop without either Intel HD Graphics, or some type of AMD APU. And I would never in a million years buy a laptop with Nvidia graphics. Different gear for different needs.[/QUOTE] What's the point if it's lower priced, and basically better in every aspect? [QUOTE=Levelog;45251559]But... Acer. You get what you pay for. Maybe some better performance, but at the cost of a lot of quality and an absurdly shitty, locked down bios.[/QUOTE] It's funny because a lot of my friends have Acer laptops, and they've not complained about them at all. The bios is a trade off, and in turn you'd be getting a more powerful GPU and CPU for 100$ less. The 840 in this case is actually somewhere around 2-3x as powerful as the HD series, in most regards. The CPU is a basically overclocked version of the same from OP, but has more power. From what i hear Levono is also pretty locked down in BIOS as well, and i've had some experience with those. Well After further review, Tobisha, not Levono have the pretty locked down Bios, Still, i've never had a friend with a problem with an acer, even though most of my friends have them. I also have to say, the complaints i do get about them are usually because they were dropped out of case, or mishandled, and not a factory problem with the device itself. [editline]30th June 2014[/editline] In any case, i'm not saying he did a bad job, just stating my opinion that he could have done better for the same price, or around it.
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;45251374]Well it still helps performance, and there's really no reason to not get one. Intel HD graphics tend to be the bottleneck on otherwise good laptops like these.[/QUOTE] that depends entirely on what you're doing? btw intel iris graphics are pretty competitive. the Iris 5100 in my retina MBP is brilliant for how little power it consumes [editline]30th June 2014[/editline] and acer laptop build quality is terrible
I specifically didn't look at acer laptops because of past experiences with them. And as far as the graphics go, I can upgrade them later if need be (maybe...)
Eh, I've had problems with dozens of Acer's. Imo they're about as low as you can get excluding the HP dv series
[QUOTE=The Worm;45254514]I specifically didn't look at acer laptops because of past experiences with them. And as far as the graphics go, I can upgrade them later if need be (maybe...)[/QUOTE] No you can't. [editline]30th June 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;45253054] It's funny because a lot of my friends have Acer laptops, and they've not complained about them at all.[/QUOTE] A lot of people use $5 earbuds and don't complain about them but that doesn't mean they're not terrible. Typically an Acer buyer isn't going to be someone who complains about product quality considering Acer products are low-end and inexpensive.
[QUOTE=The Worm;45254514]I specifically didn't look at acer laptops because of past experiences with them. And as far as the graphics go, I can upgrade them later if need be (maybe...)[/QUOTE] No you cannot upgrade laptop graphics in 99% of the laptops. Seeing as this is a very flat one Im pretty sure that this one isnt in the 1% that can. That said. If you dont do heavy gaming on it its a good laptop. Also: Acer has horrible build quality, same with Packard Bell (now owned by Acer) and most of HP's consumer series.
Acer is garbage, my friend had a acer laptop and it's hinges broke only 6 months into it and don't even get me started about their support, he ended up just fixing it himself because they sent it back saying user abuse, and that he had to pay for it to be fixed, when in reality it just snapped from poor quality hinges. couldn't believe it. also, my Gateway runs a i3 on HD 3000 graphics and i can run diablo 3 and war thunder, along with League of legends rather well. not saying those games are demanding but, still good for a 3 yr old laptop, which btw i dropped into a corner of the desk, and left a DEEP scratch, didn't even break. few months later, dropped it again from kitchen counter, and busted the plastic around the hinge, but hinge was fine then my roommates cat jumps on it closed, and it's a fat cat, so i hear this crack, he cracked the LED screen. he paid for the replacement which was like $50 and only took 10min to install and bam, new screen. best laptop i've ever owned.
Acer laptops are absolute trash, they mostly have bad boards and snapped hinge mounts/mangled plastics for me.
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