New College Laptop - Dolphin Questions

[AFinalUltimatum]

Hey all, I'm looking at some new laptops for college, and I would like to be able to use Dolphin while away (Gotta have some way to unwind!). I'm currently looking at an ASUS laptop, details below.
RAM: 8GB
CPU: Intel i7 (2.8 GHz) (Says something about having turbo boost to 3.1 GHz?)
Video Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000
Not sure if it matters, but it runs Windows 7.
So my question is if I were to get this one would I get good support for Dolphin games? I'm hoping to get use of Wind Waker and Super Mario Sunshine (And hopefully even Twilight Princess?)

Thanks for any responses!

[admin89]

Quote:Video Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000

lol , it's not even called a "card" . It's IGP
Anyway , all Intel IGP are garbage

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:CPU: Intel i7 (2.8 GHz) (Says something about having turbo boost to 3.1 GHz?)

Which model?

Quote:I'm currently looking at an ASUS laptop

Which model?

Quote:Video Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000

Get a laptop with a discrete gpu.

[AFinalUltimatum]

(07-29-2012, 12:51 PM)admin89 Wrote:

Quote:Video Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000

lol , it's not even called a "card" . It's IGP
Anyway , all Intel IGP are garbage

So...? That doesn't entirely help me or answer my question...

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(07-29-2012, 12:51 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote:

Quote:CPU: Intel i7 (2.8 GHz) (Says something about having turbo boost to 3.1 GHz?)

Which model?

Quote:I'm currently looking at an ASUS laptop

Which model?

Quote:Video Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000

Get a laptop with a discrete gpu.

i7-2640M CPU
ASUS U47A-BGR4 (Best Buy Link)
Discrete?

[admin89]

Quote:Discrete?

Nvidia GT 630M , 640M , 650M ....
AMD 6650M ....

[AFinalUltimatum]

Okay, so my overall question, is would this particular laptop run what I'm looking for? I'm not in the best condition to buy whatever laptop I want, but if this one could run it, it would be perfect. So what do people think I could get for performance?

[admin89]

If you don't care about PC games then yeah

[AFinalUltimatum]

(07-29-2012, 01:14 PM)admin89 Wrote: If you don't care about PC games then yeah

Well, it's mostly for college, but my question is SPECIFICALLY will I see any good performance with DOLPHIN with this build?

[Starscream]

You'll be able to run a lot of games pretty well, but they'll look like crap without a decent GPU.

[admin89]

Like i said before , Intel HD 3000 is garbage , you should get Nvidia or AMD GPU instead
Intel HD 3000 will bottleneck that CPU in graphic demanding games such as Mario Galaxy , Skyward Sword , Zelda TP , Xenoblade ...