Samsung (AMD) vs Acer (Intel) Laptop - Which is a Better Buy?


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Samsung Laptop

Acer Laptop



Please restrict your opinion to these two only.


I am kind of edging towards the Samsung, but the only thing stopping me is the all AMD build. People say AMDs have issues finding appropriate drivers.
Anyone here used a AMD build laptop? How's the experience.
 
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Re: Which of these two laptops is a better buy

AMD drivers should be bundled with the laptop while you buy. Else when is it that you are in grave situation of not getting a driver in this age-can you explain?
 
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I have two acer laptops,one a five year old aspire and a Acer ferrari. No problems yet,only some software bugs with the aspire in the beginning but now its good. Plus their ASS is incredible too.
Here the Aspire V3 571G is a faster machine because its a turbo boost I5 with 3GHZ,a lot more than the AMD in the Samsung. RAM is more in the samsung and also the Hard disk space. Plus its also got new WIN8.
But really I dont think AMD is a good processor brand. They have good graphic cards but not processors. But if you can get WIN8,go for the Acer. trust me they are good.
 
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Re: Which of these two laptops is a better buy

My vote goes to Acer,Do not buy AMD cpu powered laps,its very slow.
 
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I specifically told noobs and fanboys to stay away.

How many of you know that the AMD has 4 cores as compared to Intel's two.

And that the clock speed is not the only criteria to measure a CPU performance. And in Multitasking the AMD will be head and shoulders above the Intel courtesy the extra cores.

The only issue of the drivers.

@ Jayadev

AnandTech - Testing AMD

XBMC Developers Criticize AMD's Linux Driver - Slashdot
 
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hmm I am not a fanboy was just sharing my experience with you,in case it might help.
 
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Re: Which of these two laptops is a better buy

I am not the kind of guy who looks at brands.

Its hardcore specs that matter to me.


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Its ok mate. You were only trying to help. [cheers]
 
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Re: Which of these two laptops is a better buy

i too dont look at brands. But quality does matter. Planning to play games or just normal usage?
 
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Ummm, not exactly sure.

Even if I do gaming, it will be normal "offline" gaming.
 
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if you are talking about good games like NFS MW,GTA5 etc then a lot of these games are not compatible on AMD.
 
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Re: Which of these two laptops is a better buy

@amg,

Sorry I cannot go external links as I am in mobile .

why not have look at the HW specifications of your both cases?
 
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@AMG

I have used both AMD and Intel and both are fine to me, so looking at the specifications, I will opt for Samsung here !![:)]
 
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Re: Which of these two laptops is a better buy

Looks like I am wrong. So you know that AMD is good,then whats the point of asking? Go for samsung.
 

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