Anybody have anything?
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Anybody have anything?
I've been looking at exactly the same things you are in the last week, the only things I'd add that I assume you've probably seen too:
Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 (640M I believe, and from the benchmarks I've seen it can run BF3 semi acceptably).
I suspect with the weight/other requirements you are looking at (~ same for me) there aren't that many sporting a 650m. Obviously the Macbook pro is one, but you pay for that.
Frankly if I could find it I'd get the gigabyte U2442 on the spot (also 640m though I thing I saw somewhere that indicated 650 so I'm not that sure, but insanely light, interesting other specs).
Borderline weight wise:
Alienware M14x (650m)- bit heavy and... its alienware :)
Dell xps 15 as was previously noted (640m)
If you relax weight requirements there are obviously a bunch between 6 and 7 pounds but I don't really want that myself either so I haven't been looking at them.
I'm curious if you find anything better, I may just wait a month or two as the new ivy bridge laptops are slowly trickling in with discrete graphics, even in the ultrabooks.
MSI GE60?
Nice matte 1080 screen, under 5.5lbs, 650m or 660m, can be configured with an ssd. Don't think you'll get 5+ hours out of the battery but then again I don't think you will with anything that has a 650m and a quad core.