New laptop and stuff - Advice please? :)

**neobrain** · 03-19-2014, 09:52 PM **#11**

Bumping for Shonumi's testing reports?

Having looked a bit further into possible alternatives, I still think the Dell Inspiron 15 is the best choice for me (figured a 17'' display would be too big for practical purposes), if that Intel GPU manages to render things fine in Dolphin.

***Shonumi*** · (This post was last modified: 03-20-2014, 01:04 AM by Shonumi.)

Hey neobrain, I actually did test it two days ago, sorry for the wait. I tested SMG2 and Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (not a wide variety, but I didn't have too much time). They both rendered fine on 4.0-1234. I took screenshots of SMG2; look for the edited version of this post later after I eat some breakfast.

And now for the EDIT:

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I know what you're thinking, "ONLY TWO?" yeah that's my free time for you Sad

Fwiw, an Intel HD 3000 plays everything just as well on 4.0- 1234 (i.e. no graphical glitches). Used OpenGL on both my laptop and the family desktop (Intel HD4400 and HD 3000 respectively). So unless Mesa doesn't have good Haswell support, I don't think you have much to worry about with this new laptop.

**neobrain** · 03-20-2014, 02:37 AM **#13**

Great, thanks for the info Smile

And don't worry, those two screenshots are more than enough Big Grin

**NaturalViolence** · 03-29-2014, 01:54 PM **#14**

Have you bought it yet?

Sorry I didn't get a chance to respond. I tend to be less inclined to help people when it involves inferior hardware platforms Tongue

**neobrain** · 03-29-2014, 08:57 PM **#15**

Yup, I ordered it yesterday Smile