I'm getting a notebook for college. The one I'm looking at is a Lenovo Y460 for around $870 with my student discount.
It has a i5-520, HD Radeon 5650, 4 GB RAM, Windows 7, 500 GB hard drive, blu-ray player, and it looks pretty nice.
Do you think it is worth the cost and how well do you think it will run SC2?
Also, CPU bottleneck or GPU bottleneck?
(I'm a computer science major by the way and my budget is a notebook for less than 1k)
Thanks! ^_^
I bet even higher, If it can run bluray the processor is good! and the video card! You should be good to go! You have to realize a bluray is about 10x as much info as a normal DVD. You will most likely be able to do high settings/ if not the best.
Ok, thanks for the opinion. I guess I'll go through with it and buy it in the next week or two (I hope the price doesn't change). The only downside with this laptop is the hard drive speed is around 5400 RPM rather than 7200, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
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I'm getting a notebook for college. The one I'm looking at is a Lenovo Y460 for around $870 with my student discount.
It has a i5-520, HD Radeon 5650, 4 GB RAM, Windows 7, 500 GB hard drive, blu-ray player, and it looks pretty nice.
Do you think it is worth the cost and how well do you think it will run SC2?
Also, CPU bottleneck or GPU bottleneck?
(I'm a computer science major by the way and my budget is a notebook for less than 1k)
Thanks! ^_^
Not to sure on the 5650 since its a mobile one, but the rest should be fine.
Its guaranteed to run the game at least on medium though.
I bet even higher, If it can run bluray the processor is good! and the video card! You should be good to go!
You have to realize a bluray is about 10x as much info as a normal DVD.
You will most likely be able to do high settings/ if not the best.
Seems like a very solid laptop.
Since the i5-520 is a two-core you'll have no problems playing SC2. The CPU is more important than the GPU for Starcraft.
The 5650 is sufficient - and very low on power consumption (which, I guess, is pretty useful for a notebook^.^).
I don't know about the cost (never bought a notebook myself), but with that set-up you can play SC2 on high graphics easily.
My current desktop pc has a slightly weaper CPU and GPU and the same amount of RAM. I'm playing SC2 on 1280x1024 and high graphics completely lagless.
Ok, thanks for the opinion. I guess I'll go through with it and buy it in the next week or two (I hope the price doesn't change). The only downside with this laptop is the hard drive speed is around 5400 RPM rather than 7200, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem.