Soldato
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I've been looking at laptops as my Acer has got to the stage when it's cooling seems to be knackered to the extent that the cooling fan is on all the time.
I've been looking at the Dell Studio 15 or the new Inspiron 15 models based around P8400 processors etc. The struggling point is the GPU though, the Studio 15 comes with either Intel 4500MHD or ATI 3450 graphics whilst the Inspiron 15 only has the Intel GPU as an available configuration. Ideally I'd like to have a blu-ray drive in the laptop but would the Intel GPU be able to cope with playing back blu-ray disks and other HD video files?
Note that the lack of gaming performance of either GPU is not an issue as I don't play games on my laptops. I'd prefer something thats cool, quiet and stable.
I've been looking at the Dell Studio 15 or the new Inspiron 15 models based around P8400 processors etc. The struggling point is the GPU though, the Studio 15 comes with either Intel 4500MHD or ATI 3450 graphics whilst the Inspiron 15 only has the Intel GPU as an available configuration. Ideally I'd like to have a blu-ray drive in the laptop but would the Intel GPU be able to cope with playing back blu-ray disks and other HD video files?
Note that the lack of gaming performance of either GPU is not an issue as I don't play games on my laptops. I'd prefer something thats cool, quiet and stable.
