Need Help$500 Gaming Laptop

[Zallith]

My brother is looking for a gaming laptop his budget is 500 bucks unfortunately.

Needs:
Dedicated GPU
I5 or better

Right now the best I can find is:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230537
Any advice would be helpful!

 

[Kueller]

That 610m isn't really an improvement over the integrated HD4000 you'll find in most ivy bridge machines.

 

[Zallith]

Even for say mmo gaming?

 

[Abula]

I would wait for haswell, the HD5200 GT3 looks promising, like twice as fast of a the current HD4000. Now with $500 budget, and if you dont want to wait... maybe Acer Aspire V3-551-8469 15.6-Inch Laptop $440, here some benchmarks of the HD7640, Notebook check AMD Radeon HD 7640G

 

[A15G]

The 7640G is all your probably going to get when you are looking for something "NEW".

If used, you still have options for older Asus G50xx series that have GTX 260m/GTS 360M.

If your friend does anything that require tons of CPU power, I'd stay away from AMD APU's. For laptops at least.

 

[drummer223]

It seems like getting a smaller screen size (say, 14") would cut costs and be more efficient. 17" is pretty large.

 

[Meaker]

An AMD APU would be quite a bit faster than that.

 

[A15G]

An AMD APU would be quite a bit faster than that.

7640G being faster than GTX 260M/GTS 360M?

 

[Meaker]

No the 610M, but the top AMD APUs get pretty close to the 260M actually.

 

[YeuEmMaiMai]

I game on a 7650 and it works well for 1336*768 but I gotta clock the crap out of it to pay at 1600*900 on the laptop in my sig