I have to mention the Lenovo U 330, it has a dedicated ATI card and I manage to play even Fallout 3 at frame rates way over 30 FPS. I got it for less than 900 USD with Amazon (it was a promotion I admit) but you might get it below 1000 usd nowadays. THe U 330 is a 13.3 incher and weights around 3 pounds.
As an anecdote, I've managed to play fallout 3 with decent frame rate (over 30 FPS) while watching Hulu on a secondary monitor connected via HDMI, so I suggest you check it out, on many benchmarks it beats Dell, acer and Asus.
I guess it would be really easy to install any browser without an actual web browser to do the download, heh? If you don't like IE, there are many other options. I'm using chrome at this moment but appreciate the fact that I had IE available to download chrome. I guess the Europeans didn't figure that one out and are forcing everybody to buy some sort non-browser computer (therefore unusable for internet surfing), making people going to buy one of those gift CDs included in IT magazines so they can get some sort of browser working.
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Aug 27th 2009 10:03PM (Engadget)As an anecdote, I've managed to play fallout 3 with decent frame rate (over 30 FPS) while watching Hulu on a secondary monitor connected via HDMI, so I suggest you check it out, on many benchmarks it beats Dell, acer and Asus.
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Aug 3rd 2009 9:36AM (Engadget)I guess it would be really easy to install any browser without an actual web browser to do the download, heh? If you don't like IE, there are many other options. I'm using chrome at this moment but appreciate the fact that I had IE available to download chrome. I guess the Europeans didn't figure that one out and are forcing everybody to buy some sort non-browser computer (therefore unusable for internet surfing), making people going to buy one of those gift CDs included in IT magazines so they can get some sort of browser working.
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