I'll try to keep this short. My friends 6 year old low end laptop finally died on him and he has a limited budget of about $600 dollars. He wants to be able to do some decent gaming but with that fixed budget a decent gaming laptop with a discrete graphics card is out of the question.
Effectively I've come up with 2 options with onboard integrated graphics solutions for him a dell inspiron 15 3000 (Gen 5 i5 broadwell) $549 and an inspiron 5000 $479 (amd A8 7410). Now the question here does the APU of the A8 give the system more wiggle room for gaming or do they perform about the same now that the 5th gen broadwell is out. Its next to impossible to find a proper real world benchmark online for these so I'm wondering if anybody has had experience with these 2 chipsets that could give better insight of how they perform with gaming in mind.
Yes I am aware of the lenovo y40-80 however I've heard mixed things about it and its over budget for him so please focus on the performance question for the two inspirons.
Please no build a desktop or save more money answers this is specifically for laptops on that fixed $600 budget and the performance difference for gaming if any between the i5 and the A8.
Effectively I've come up with 2 options with onboard integrated graphics solutions for him a dell inspiron 15 3000 (Gen 5 i5 broadwell) $549 and an inspiron 5000 $479 (amd A8 7410). Now the question here does the APU of the A8 give the system more wiggle room for gaming or do they perform about the same now that the 5th gen broadwell is out. Its next to impossible to find a proper real world benchmark online for these so I'm wondering if anybody has had experience with these 2 chipsets that could give better insight of how they perform with gaming in mind.
Yes I am aware of the lenovo y40-80 however I've heard mixed things about it and its over budget for him so please focus on the performance question for the two inspirons.
Please no build a desktop or save more money answers this is specifically for laptops on that fixed $600 budget and the performance difference for gaming if any between the i5 and the A8.
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