New laptop and stuff - Advice please? :)

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(03-17-2014, 01:51 AM)admin89 Wrote: Intel HD 4400 is not much better than Intel HD 4000 , I say those two are similar in term of performance . I'm sure Intel HD 4000 will struggle in SMG even if you use 1xIR

What kind of slow are you talking about when you say "struggle"? I mean, did you catch the point where I said I don't want to play games with Dolphin, but rather just have it running at all and good enough for things not to be a slide-show? However, what would indeed be important is being able to use Blender fluently.

(03-17-2014, 01:51 AM)admin89 Wrote:

Quote:It wouldn't cover his battery expectations

It ? Those Lenovo laptops I linked in my last post have 5 hours battery life which is almost twice as much as his old laptop
If he use a specific software to limit i3 4000M 2400MHz to 900MHz or less . i3 power consumption will be similar to an ULV CPU power consumption , that should increase battery life (more than 6 hours)

I don't think such "specific software" is available for Linux, and I'm really not the type of guy who is into spending a day scripting things like this.
Either way, do I understand it correctly that the i3-4000M is actually a little bit faster than the i5-4200U, but less energy-efficient?