Recommend notebook 300-400$

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Of the specific laptops you list, the Pentium 4415U will likely perform the best.


For all intents and purposes, the Pentium 4415U is pretty much just a Pentium G4560 with a 33% lower clockrate as both are 2core/4thread Kaby Lake CPUs (with HD610 integrated graphics as well, but obviously there's a discrete GPU in play here), so it would be reasonable to suggest that performance will similarly be 33% of a desktop Pentium G4560. Looking at the results of the Dolphin 5.0 benchmark (remember that newer development versions of Dolphin will perform better!), this should result in CPU performance that is somewhere around 3.5GHz Ivy Bridge level or so.


I do just want to say though that the discrete GPU only being a 920MX makes me sad since even the Vega 8 integrated graphics on a Ryzen 2500U when paired with dual-channel RAM would be faster. At least the 920MX should still be considerably better than the Intel HD610 integrated graphics.

(03-19-2018, 02:35 AM)Helios Wrote: None of those laptops will run Dolphin well.

Being only 33% slower than the ever-popular Pentium G4560 certainly isn't anything to scoff at when one considers Dolphin's weirdly-fast performance boost on Haswell and newer.