Looking for Laptop

[Cossack]

Looking for laptop under this description:

Price: 500 to 1000 dollars
Screen: Between 14 and 15.6 inches
Must have Nvidia/AMD GPU
CPU: Intel
Weight: Under 2.3 kilograms

Thank you in advance as always

[LITOralis.nMd]

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need more info.

[ConscriptVirus]

I'm going to assume its for playing PR.

For that budget, I would take a look at the Lenovo Ideapad Y500 or Y510P. Its a cheap / powerful laptop.

[Cossack]

Hmm, main purpose for it to be portable, with decent battery life and extra GPU for kicking in only as backup, if the Intel HD Graphics start to lag.

So, main aspect for it is portability.

Lenovo Y500 is too heavy, and are for serious gaming.

This for my sister, as I dont really have time to look into the offer, so maybe though you guys can suggest some

Also forgot to mention - it must have matte display.

[Careless]

Try pcspecialist . co . uk , you can costumize it to your needs (ram, cpu and gpu)

[Daniel]

(click here: www.pcspecialist.co.uk )

[Cossack]

(click here: www.pcspecialist.co.uk )

Sorry, but this does not work. I live in Latvia and only thing you can get is prebuild laptops. If you buy custom one, you pay way to much it.

Also, looked at HP ProBook 450 with AMD Radeon card in it. What you guys think about that ProBook?

[Daniel]

Which intel core (i-series I bet?), which AMD card?

[Cossack]

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 Shortdesc: 	HP Probook 450/i5-3230/15,6'' HD AG LED/Cam/8750M 2GB/8GB/750GB/DVDRW LS/Wlan bgn+BT/6C bat/WIN8/Uskey/black (replace 4540S)
 Features & benefits: 	
Get a hands?on experience
All?new industrial design
Protect your work
Work in more places
Tough on the job
 Processor: 	Intel i5-3230M
 Proccesor speed: 	2.60 GHz
 Processor multicore type: 	Dual Core
 Chipset: 	Intel HM76 Express
 Front side bus: 	n/a
 Cache external: 	3 MB
 Ram installed: 	8 GB
 Ram installed max.: 	16 GB
 Ram slots total: 	2
 Ram slots free: 	n/a
 Ram type: 	DDR3 PC3-12800 1600 MHz
 Storage device size: 	750 GB
 Storage device speed: 	5400 rpm
 Quantity of storage devices: 	1
 Storage device type: 	SATA HDD
 Display size: 	15.6"
 Display type: 	HD
 Display resolution: 	1366x768
 Display features: 	LED AntiGlare
 Graphic card: 	Yes
 Graphics controller: 	AMD Radeon HD 8750M
 Graphics memory size: 	2 GB
 Graphics memory type: 	Dedicated
 Camera: 	Yes
 Audio: 	Yes
 Audio features: 	DTS Sound+, stereo speakers, single integrated digital microphone or dual array microphone on models with optional 720p HD Webcam
 Modem: 	n/a
 Wwan (3g): 	n/a
 Network card: 	Yes
 Network speed: 	10/100/1000 Mbps
 Network card type: 	Realtek 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controller
 Wireless network: 	Yes
 Wireless standards: 	b/g/n
 Wireless card type: 	Ralink 802.11b/g/n (1x1) and Bluetooth 4.0 combo
 Bluetooth: 	Yes
 Notebook optical storage: 	DVD+/-RW DL SM
 Input devices: 	Full?sized, spill?resistant keyboard, touchpad with scroll zone and gestures support, power button, 2 launch buttons (Wireless on/off and speaker mute), Function Keys , full separate numeric keypad
 Operating system: 	Microsoft Windows 8 64
 Battery: 	6-cell
 Average run time: 	n/a
 Security: 	HP Client Security, Microsoft Security Essentials(Win 7)/Microsoft Denfender(Win 8) , HP BIOS Protection, Security Lock slot. HP Drive Encryption
 Software included: 	Buy Office, HP Wireless Hotspot, Cyberlink Media Suite, HP ePrint , HP Hotkey support, HP 3D DriveGuard, , PDF Complete Corporate Edition, Skype?ready, HP Recovery Manager, Evernote, HP Support Assistant, Intel Wireless Display
 Width: 	375 mm
 Depth: 	256.2 mm
 Height: 	22.8 mm
 Weight: 	2.400 Kg
 Expansion ports: 	
2 x USB
2 x USB 3.0
VGA
HDMI
Audio in / out
RJ-45
 Expansion slots: 	n/a
 Card reader: 	Yes
 Supported formats: 	SD, SDHC, SDXC, MS, MSXC
 Accessories: 	n/a
 Localization: 	USkey

That is the description

[LITOralis.nMd]

For a notebook for a school age kid, that looks fine.

The only downside is the HDD speed,
Storage device size: 750 GB
Storage device speed: 5400 rpm

But she can live with that. Won't affect casual usage cause most of the immediate use stuff will be in the 8GB RAM, will affect middle tier games.

You could even set up a 2 or 3 GB ramdisk for all the TEMP files, will give a noticeable boost and actually make use of the full 8GB during daily usage. You pay for 8GB, use all 8GB.

[Knallkopp_02]

Take a look at Lenovos L530 and put a msata ssd as addition into it.

I bought the earlier version L520 with an ssd as addition for a friend of mine and it is great.
Windows 7 is running like hell on the 128GB ssd

Regards

[Careless]

Sorry, but this does not work. I live in Latvia and only thing you can get is prebuild laptops. If you buy custom one, you pay way to much it.

Also, looked at HP ProBook 450 with AMD Radeon card in it. What you guys think about that ProBook?

I don't understand it, the site doesn't let you ship to Latvia?
Try simillar Russian or even Latvian sites where you can customize your laptop.

The GPU is fine.. You could even save up money and buy one without a GPU (unless she does 3D intensive tasks or games).

The integrated videocards in CPU's are relatively powerfull nowadays.

[Cossack]

I don't understand it, the site doesn't let you ship to Latvia?
Try simillar Russian or even Latvian sites where you can customize your laptop.

The GPU is fine.. You could even save up money and buy one without a GPU (unless she does 3D intensive tasks or games).

The integrated videocards in CPU's are relatively powerfull nowadays.

Mr Careless, I think you haven't been in Eastern Europe and how is it to live there. With 400 euros in month you start to think what to buy.

And Latvia does not have such sites + Russia is not in EU so need to pay import price (20% from price of the item + shipping)

So please...

Anyhow, only things here available are preset laptops from big companies like HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer etc...

[Careless]

Mr Careless, I think you haven't been in Eastern Europe and how is it to live there. With 400 euros in month you start to think what to buy.

And Latvia does not have such sites + Russia is not in EU so need to pay import price (20% from price of the item + shipping)

So please...

Anyhow, only things here available are preset laptops from big companies like HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Acer etc...

The funny thing is, I actually am from "Eastern Europe", from Central-Asia to be more precisely. I never thought Latvia has real economic problems though.

You didn't really answered my question though does pcspecialist ship to Latvia? Their site says it ships to all of Europe

If no; there have to be more websites that do ship to Latvia.

Eitherway, you can't expect to find a very cheap laptop with very good specs (I'm also having this problem)

[LITOralis.nMd]

If you have some Latvian electronics websites, we can search on there to see the prices.
I got no idea what anything costs there

[Cossack]

Nah, its fine. The newegg, ncix etc even UK prices are close to the Latvian pricing. So, no need for it.

But if you wish: M79.lv, tera.lv, dateks.lv

500Ls is the maximum what I can spend.