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I need a laptop for general use, coding, Autodesk Maya, light video editing and a spot of gaming.
My gaming needs are as follows. The games I play the most are Assassins Creed 4, Kingdoms of Amalur, the Need for Speed series, Thief, The Witcher 2 (I haven't yet tried 3), Dirt 3 and so on. I want a laptop that will handle the sequels to these games when they come out and more, even if i have to bring the settings down to low.
So I want to know which one I should get.
In terms of specs, both come with 8 gigs of RAM, 1 Terabyte 5400 RPM drives, no optical disk drives, 14 inch screens and the usual wireless cards.
The Y40 has an Intel broadwell (5th gen) i7 5500u CPU and an AMD R9 M275 graphics chip powering a 1080p matte TN display which is apparently not very good at contrast (I think ill be OK with this), and it also lacks a backlit keyboard.
The Acer has an older Haswell i5 4200U which I was told, isn't all that slower than the formers i7, considering both are ultra low voltage processors and its paired with a NVIDIA GeForce GT750M which I was told, isn't better than the AMD everywhere, but trumps it in a lot of places and adds CUDA acceleration and better graphics switching optimus technology. In addition, the Acer may not have a full HD screen but it has a 768p touch panel of some sort which is probably better than the Lenovos in contrast and it also has a backlit keyboard unlike the Lenovo.
I don't know which one to get, the both cost around the same (700USD). I know that Lenovo is a good company by reputation, but i'm not sure about Acer there either. Im also unsure how to take all that people have told me about these.
My gaming needs are as follows. The games I play the most are Assassins Creed 4, Kingdoms of Amalur, the Need for Speed series, Thief, The Witcher 2 (I haven't yet tried 3), Dirt 3 and so on. I want a laptop that will handle the sequels to these games when they come out and more, even if i have to bring the settings down to low.
So I want to know which one I should get.
In terms of specs, both come with 8 gigs of RAM, 1 Terabyte 5400 RPM drives, no optical disk drives, 14 inch screens and the usual wireless cards.
The Y40 has an Intel broadwell (5th gen) i7 5500u CPU and an AMD R9 M275 graphics chip powering a 1080p matte TN display which is apparently not very good at contrast (I think ill be OK with this), and it also lacks a backlit keyboard.
The Acer has an older Haswell i5 4200U which I was told, isn't all that slower than the formers i7, considering both are ultra low voltage processors and its paired with a NVIDIA GeForce GT750M which I was told, isn't better than the AMD everywhere, but trumps it in a lot of places and adds CUDA acceleration and better graphics switching optimus technology. In addition, the Acer may not have a full HD screen but it has a 768p touch panel of some sort which is probably better than the Lenovos in contrast and it also has a backlit keyboard unlike the Lenovo.
I don't know which one to get, the both cost around the same (700USD). I know that Lenovo is a good company by reputation, but i'm not sure about Acer there either. Im also unsure how to take all that people have told me about these.
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