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Well I was looking for one with a big screen I know AMD's aren't good with Mac or anything I'm willing to buy from best buy or Staples possibly Amazon. I really like big screen laptops. How was the one I posted? Thanks for helping me!

(06-23-2012, 04:52 AM)puglover Wrote: [ -> ]Well I was looking for one with a big screen I know AMD's aren't good with Mac or anything I'm willing to buy from best buy or Staples possibly Amazon. I really like big screen laptops. How was the one I posted? Thanks for helping me!

It doesn't have discrete GPU, which may hinder performance.
I can't find a large screen laptop with a discrete GPU in your price range. Sorry.
The Acer ones I posted have small screens, but are fine otherwise.

And you could always plug them into a larger monitor.

What do you mean by a discrete GPU? What makes it discrete? How can you know if it's discrete?

(06-23-2012, 08:25 AM)puglover Wrote: [ -> ]What do you mean by a discrete GPU? What makes it discrete? How can you know if it's discrete?

A GPU made by AMD or Nvidia.
The APUs are technically integrated, but they perform similarly to a low-end discrete GPU.

As an example:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+17.3%22+Satellite+Laptop+-+6GB+Memory+-+750GB+Hard+Drive+-+Platinum/4693054.p?id=1218509073307&skuId=4693054
Does not have a discrete GPU.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Acer+-+15.6%22Aspire+Notebook+6+GB+Memory+-+640+GB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/3823013.p?id=1218434742815&skuId=3823013
Does have a discrete GPU that is a good bit better than an integrated GPU and will provide better performance.
This also has a decent screen for the price.

As an example, here's Crysis 2 on an HD 2000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A93DKoySWQE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

And on Acer aspire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rmkHFjKSoU

The 520M is easily superior.

Or an even better side-by-side comparison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjI_c-Pc6-Q&feature=related

Twilight Princess on a similarly spec'd laptop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQBxmJq-NAA

Am I making sense here?

Yeah I guess I'll have to expand my budget a bit. How about this one?
http://m.dell.com/mt/www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15r-5520/pd?oc=fndol49b&model_id=inspiron-15r-5520

(06-23-2012, 09:34 AM)puglover Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah I guess I'll have to expand my budget a bit. How about this one?
http://m.dell.com/mt/www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15r-5520/pd?oc=fndol49b&model_id=inspiron-15r-5520

Worse than the Acer one I posted due to dolphin performance issues with the HD 4000.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215417
This is still my personal recommendation, due to having a better GPU than the 520m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RbNM_1HaJ8
See?

How about this one I hate to keep asking but I like to have options. You know?
http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-Pavilion/C0L25AV?HP-Pavilion-dv6t-7000-Select-Edition-Entertainment-Notebook-PC

You get to customize how you want it so how would I want to customize it?

Those HP , Acer , Dell laptop are multimedia laptop , they can run PC games fine but sure overheat fast with dolphin
As i said in the first post ,either get gaming laptop or build desktop
This is Clevo ultraportable gaming laptop . It cost 800 buck , 70C on full load which is nice for a small form factor laptop and you can customize or buy it directly (quick ship)

I'd have to recommend the Clevo as well.

If you can't afford that, I'd still recommend the Acer Aspire if you can keep it cooled well.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215417

And here's the Acer Aspire with a larger screen, as you asked:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215408

Yes! So the 17 inch Acer Aspire will work well with Zelda Ss?