RS4
Herald
Read the first post of the thread,op has clearly mentioned that he is going to play games on the laptop,though he will be gaming casually, a discreet gpu is a must for running the present generation games and the crappy integrated graphics whether its intel igp or ati 550v wont be able to deliver the desired results(i.e. playing games at low-medium resolution and details).premsharma695 said:Over heating is a problem with Lappy which has a discrete graphics card, be it any brand. Therefore, you should look for lappy which has best integrated graphics and not graphic card. Obviously none other than ATI. Here is one for you Dell Inspiron M501R. It has AMD Phenom II X3 Procy, 880 chipset and ATI 550V (4250) integrated graphic. This is miles ahead of intel based laptops and 10-12000 less than intel models costs. There are models from HP too i.e. HP ProBook 4325s/4425s/4525s series etc.
And the AMD laptop processors are known for their battery hungry and heating issues and i have personal experience with such amd based laptops, whenever a new amd cpu based laptop is launched people say that it doesnt have heating issues and all but later they repent their purchase decision.
The only good thing associated with AMD cpu based laptop is the price and it makes sense to go for it if you are cash strapped and cant extend your budget for a intel based laptop.