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    Gaming and Iris Pro graphics 5200

    Hello.
    First some background, I'm in the market for a light laptop/ultrabook. I travel a lot in my job, and weight limitations is an issue, so nothing above 14" or 2kg/5lbs.
    It should include Haswell, SSD above 250gb preferably, 8gb ram minimum, and a dedicated graphics card. Touchscreen I am not sure is needed.
    Games I play is nothing too heavy, WoW, HoMM, Civ, Diablo, StarCraft.

    I've been looking for a while, but haven't found that many that has the specs and size wanted.
    But today I saw a 14" with the following specs (in Norwegian):
    Multicom Arctic W740S
    - 14" Full HD LED 1920x1080 16:9 Matt skjerm, 3.2mm
    - Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics 5200 med DirectX 11.1, OpenCL 1.2 og OpenGL 4.0 støtte
    - 4. generasjon Intel Core™ i7-4750HQ 2.0-3.2GHz prosessor
    - Intel 8 Series chipset
    - 16GB DDR3 1600MHz SO-DIMM RAM (2x8GB, 0 ledige slotter. Maks 16GB)
    - Intel 525 Series 120GB SSD mSATA
    - 1TB harddisk 5400rpm
    - 1,9 kg

    The SSD is hopefully upgradeable, but my question is, how good is the Intel 5200 integrated graphics card? I'd like to play in medium-high settings at least.
    Other comments is also appreciated. I am not able to post links yet, but it's found at a Norwegian site called multicom.no

    Hope I posted this in the right forum

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    It's about the same performance as a 640M, it isn't going to deliver the performance you want it to. Do you have a budget we can work on?
    Fluorescent - Fluo - currently retired, playing other stuff

    i5-4670k @ 4.5 / Thermalright Silver Arrow Extreme / Gigabyte Z87X-D3H / 8GB DDR3-1600 RAM / Gigabyte GTX 760

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    I don't really have a max, but let's say nothing past 2k euro? I have a few laptops that is close to what I want, can post them as soon as I find them
    Or should I give it some more time until there are more laptops/ultrabooks with Haswell?

    Edit: This one from Lenovo, IdeaPad U430 Touch Ultrabook, looks pretty good, but it's not out yet. At least not here in Norway.
    Edit2: Another from Gigabyte, U24T, NVIDIA GT 750M graphics and touchscreen.
    Last edited by JHNo; 2013-09-05 at 03:21 PM.

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    This is pretty nice, the only drawback is thta it comes with a 1600x900 screen (even though I'm not completely sure you'll be able to take advantage of a 1080p @ 14''). Will keep looking anyways.

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    The Clevo W230ST is also a great laptop. 13.3'' screen coming in 720+, 900+ and 1080p depending on versions, and has a 765M instead of a 760M. Will try finding it in a store available in Norway.

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    There we go, found it here. It has UPS worldwide shipping which means it's available to Norway as well. Base price is
    1069$ + 139$ for shipping (UPS express mail international).

    Modifications I suggest:
    - i7-4800MQ (~10% more CPU power) (+185$)
    - Added an SSD (250GB m4) (+230$)
    - 50$ off due to order being over 1350$ (-50$)

    Total amounts to 1653$, and 1603.41$ after the discount they offer. If it's worth it compared to the laptop above it's mostly your choice, you're getting a 1080p, a 20% more powerful GPU, a 10% more powerful CPU and 120GB extra SSD space with this second choice.
    Last edited by Fluorescent0; 2013-09-05 at 05:06 PM.
    Fluorescent - Fluo - currently retired, playing other stuff

    i5-4670k @ 4.5 / Thermalright Silver Arrow Extreme / Gigabyte Z87X-D3H / 8GB DDR3-1600 RAM / Gigabyte GTX 760

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    Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it. The MSI looked interesting, and the Clevo is offered by the Norwegian site Multicom as well, with the following specs:
    - 13.3" Full HD LED 1920x1080 16:9 matt skjerm
    - GeForce GTX 765M skjermkort med 2GB GDDR5 minne, nVidia PhysX og CUDA støtte
    - NVIDIA Optimus teknologi
    - 4. generasjon Intel Core™ i7-4700MQ prosessor
    - Intel 8 Series chipset
    - 16GB DDR3 1600MHz SO-DIMM RAM (2x8GB, 0 ledig slot)
    - Intel 525 Series 120GB SSD mSATA
    - 1TB harddisk 5400rpm 2,5"

    But I can't upgrade any of the parts from their site, and the weight is 2,4 kg. I think I will either go for this one, or wait for October as we get a few new launches then.

    I got the answer about the Intel 5200 I wanted. It won't replace a decent dedicated GPU as I thought. Again, thank you for helping

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