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Hi :)
please help me choose one out of these laptops as I am finding it very confusing to go for one. I will be using the laptop for daily purpose and sometimes for gaming which includes StarCraft II, Dirt3, MaxPayne 3 etc.. , but I want a piece that will last for at least next 2-3 years easily.

Here are the choices I am confused with-->

This one has APU A6 and 7670M...

http://www.flipkart.com/asus-x53tk-sx056d-laptop-apu-quad-core-a6-4gb-320gb-dos-1gb-graph/p/itmdhfy73g8hyxxj?pid=COMDHFVQ5WTHUEZ3&ref=b16a86d4-e4af-45e7-896c-df899b526ebb

This one has A8 and 7670M again but unlike the previous one, its 2GB

http://www.flipkart.com/hp-pavilion-g6-2301ax-laptop-apu-quad-core-a8-4gb-500gb-win8-2-5gb-graph/p/itmdgtjcmdusnsky?pid=COMDGTJCRYXXV8CE&ref=19c7d283-4748-40c6-9311-bdd894b0b3ff

And finally, this one, I really liked the aesthetics and feel of this laptop but I think it does not stands up that much when it comes to value for money ratio. It lacks USB 3.0 and I am not sure if it's DVD drive is multi-layer supported and is able to write or not, it also has 7650M, a little slower than 7670m. I am little confused that should I consider it's 3120M as an advantage over APUs or it will not make much difference?

But still I liked its overall look and simple hardware outer texture :).

http://www.flipkart.com/sony-vaio-sve1513bynb-laptop-3rd-gen-ci3-2gb-500gb-red-flag-linux-1gb-graph/p/itmdjsk3fa5qaz5z?pid=COMDJSK35M432AQP&ref=2707a2fa-ef25-42d1-a573-637e0e751abb

Suggest me another one if there is any better choice in this price range..
my budget is approx. about $650.
I do also own a 2500K with no discreet GPU, which one I should go for? should I save the money with laptop and buy a decent GPU for desktop instead? which one would you suggest considering the new arrivals?

Thanks very much for your time, waiting egarly for your responses.
 
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does it need to be a laptop? not like most smartphones can't perform tasks like email, web-browsing ect now, enough for most people on the move. how about just a nice gaming pc for when u get home? :)
 
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Thanks for your reply :)
Actually I already own two android smart phones at home and they are not much fun for internet browsing, plus I am in need of laptop to run softwares too for my engineering purpose.
I appriciate your view, but given the fact that I am intersted in laptops only, which one would you suggest?
And yeah, a nice gaming pc at home sounds good but I still need a laptop for medium-heavy work.

 
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Thanks for that valuabel suggestion of 7850!
I am considering it as an option.
But still, I fear that the low-end laptop will outdate too soon than the price I have paid for it to purchase. So, it would be good for me to have a laptop with medium configuration.
7850 sounds good, yeah... its bit costly, and when I subtract the cost from my budget, I am left with these options:
http://www.flipkart.com/acer-gateway-ne56r-laptop-2nd-gen-pdc-2gb-500gb-linux-128mb-graph/p/itmddsy8gbtbsh3g?pid=COMDDSY6BGCMM8HZ&ref=4c9993ee-8cb8-4c9d-a879-ad732667d87c

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There is also another one from ASUS not available on that website, it has the same price as that of above and has AMD Brazos CPU @1.09GHz and 2GB ram and 500GB HDD. What do you think if those two can survive softwares like MATLAB or at least movies @720p ?

 
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For movie (DVDs and Blu-ray) just about any Laptop will work fine - it will be scaled to the screen resolution. Not going to change say 3 years from now.
DVDs/Blu-ray are not that demanding - they play fine on my 4 year old core dual CPUs w/integrated graphics and my 3 yr old core 2 dual laptop.

Laptop you linked to is 1366 x 768 Pixel, so 720 would be no problem.

Tablets, more of a pain for watching a DVD/Blu-ray as they do not have a dvd drive. What I do is to convert the DVD/blu-ray to a playable format (also reduces the size) and stick on a thumb drive or SD card. My 64 gig thumbdrive will hold about 20 converted movies.

MATLAB - I do not use so can not evaluate how it would perform, but you could google it and find what min spec are and then see if you are a couple of steps above min requirements.

Noted that linked laptop comes with Linux, so if you need windows 7/8 than that is an additional cost.
 
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