Achmed wroteHow much is it with VAT ? And Avok95 tarek is stubborn, if you check the facebook page we are fighting which is better gt 540m or 6650 .Again according to notebookcheck.net... the gt 540m is better but he is telling me the opposite so im confused
"The performance of the 540M lies between the Radeon HD 5650 and 5730 in our first benchmarks. Therefore, the 540M is about 10% faster than the GT435M using DDR3 graphics memory. Using GDDR5 it may be as fast as the HD 5750 / 5770."
Quote straight from notebookcheck.net.
Considering that this is to be said of the performance of the HD6650: "The 3D performance should be similar to the older Radeon HD 5730 due to the larger amount of shaders."
Then this puts the 540M between the 5650 and the 6650, hence the 6650 is faster.
Why are you going into such a headache and getting a budget gaming laptop? It won't work with you no matter how you try. You're already paying the price premium for getting a portable platform such as a laptop, budget laptop = low-end.
Consider the other factors: heat, comfortability, and usability (are you going to be gaming on the go?), upgradeability, moddability, customiseability, and most importantly price. Right now, I could build you a $600 PC that would crush any laptop that you're looking for in that budget range. Not only that, it's also cooler, upgradeable, comfortable to use, and customiseable in every way imaginable, etc... heck even if I got you a non-branded PSU it would STILL be more reliable than a laptop's power adapter (only difference being that a non-branded PC PSU is more dangerous, but I factored in the price of a reliable PSU into the $600.) Think of it carefully, with gaming you simply cannot skimp (even if you just want to run "low", one year down the line, you'll be struggling to run at low. Why do you need to face that?)
Another thing you'll need to consider, and is why Tarek was wise in giving you the CPU suggestion: laptop CPUs are usually sluggish. They REALLY bottleneck the graphics card's performance, even if it was a low-end or a midrange card. I'm talking about the AMD Turion X2's especially, and the low-end Core 2 Duos. Going with anything less than a fast Core i3 (laptop), or a Core i5 (much better, most laptop i5's are dual cores), is suicide. You'd be buying overpriced components and then running them at 50% of the capability. Trust me, I had experience with this.
EDIT: Oh yes, consider something else. When running on battery, the graphics card is usually slowed down (drastically) to lower power consumption. Yes you could turn it back up, and lower drastically your battery life, but it certainly does mean that you would need the laptop to be plugged in when gaming. Hence you're getting closer and closer to a PC. Especially taking into consideration that if you don't pay for a well-cooled laptop, you're going to need a cooling pad, bringing you closer to desktop, and if you do pay, then it's bringing you closer to a higher price point. In this way a desktop seems better and better.
The real question is this: are you willing to pay 800+ for low-end / low-midrange experience, or $800 or less for high-midrange experience (I'm talking about running high details) only sacrificing portability, which in this case, is detrimental to what you're doing (gaming)?
I read some previous comments: are you SERIOUS, you're going to get a PS3 one year later, when it's almost a dead platform? Dude, get a good PC and be done with it :P
How cheap? $200?? Put those towards a good graphics card, and upgrade bits here and there. Go for a budget of $1000 for a desktop if possible. It would be golden :D
