Ronnie.1
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Hey all,
I'm planning to buy a laptop by the end of the month. I'm a CS grad student and will be using the laptop for programming, networking and the like.
I will also be using it to game quite a bit. However, my budget is only 40-50k Indian rupees, which roughly translates to between 800 and 1000 dollars. Add to that the fact that here in India, an equivalen laptop would be $100 more expensive than in the USA, a gaming laptop is out of the question.
So my requirements are as follows:
1. Heavy multitasking and programming work should be handled very smoothly.
2. Games like Battlefield Bad Company 2 should run smoothly on medium to low settings.
The good news is that I don't need a large hard drive since my desktop has a 1.5TB HDD and it's more than sufficient.
I've been looking at the Dell Inspiron 15R with an i5 processor, 4 gigs of RAM, a 320 gig hard drive and a mobility radeon 5470 1GB variant. For an alternative, I considered the Lenovo Y550P with a similar config but a bigger hard drive and a GT240M 1 GB variant.
Which of these would be a better choice? Also, any other suggestions would be most welcome.
I'm planning to buy a laptop by the end of the month. I'm a CS grad student and will be using the laptop for programming, networking and the like.
I will also be using it to game quite a bit. However, my budget is only 40-50k Indian rupees, which roughly translates to between 800 and 1000 dollars. Add to that the fact that here in India, an equivalen laptop would be $100 more expensive than in the USA, a gaming laptop is out of the question.
So my requirements are as follows:
1. Heavy multitasking and programming work should be handled very smoothly.
2. Games like Battlefield Bad Company 2 should run smoothly on medium to low settings.
The good news is that I don't need a large hard drive since my desktop has a 1.5TB HDD and it's more than sufficient.
I've been looking at the Dell Inspiron 15R with an i5 processor, 4 gigs of RAM, a 320 gig hard drive and a mobility radeon 5470 1GB variant. For an alternative, I considered the Lenovo Y550P with a similar config but a bigger hard drive and a GT240M 1 GB variant.
Which of these would be a better choice? Also, any other suggestions would be most welcome.
