Good notebook deal?

[User1868]

I found a deal on a HP Notebook 15 - R200NW for 1300 PLN (~333 USD) { I live in Poland where sales tax is ~20%}, where it normally goes for 1500+ PLN (~385 USD), but I don't know if the laptop is worth it (price to performance).

Notebook specs:

- WLED 15.6" HD (1366 x 768)

- Intel N3540 (2,16 GHz)

- 4 GB RAM (upgradable)

- Nvidia GeForce 820M

- 750 GB HDD

- Windows 8.1

I would like it to replace my current PC (specs in signature), but as far as I have seen the difference won't be huge.

I'm going to college soon and I would like to buy a laptop anyway and other laptops in Poland usually start at around 1000 PLN with a low end Intel chip and integrated graphics, that's why I think it's a good deal.

If you want a polish PC website than this is the place with prices in PLN and that I usually buy from (deal is not on this page):

http://www.komputronik.pl/

[Fatelinha]

Isn't that CPU a Dual Core? Many games don't run on dual cores anymore, if you want to game. Anything else should be very fine with this system.

[Suika]

CPU performance may be a slight improvement but GPU performance is definitely a downgrade. The 820M is still Fermi, below your 550 Ti.

[User1868]

3 minutes ago, Fatelinha said:

Isn't that CPU a Dual Core? Many games don't run on dual cores anymore, if you want to game. Anything else should be very fine with this system.

My current PC has a dual core and I've seen people play gta v with my system specs

[Electronics Wizardy]

This won't be a very fast system, but for the price its fine. I would look into used laptop if you want more preformance look at something like a used t420 or dell e6310.

[User1868]

1 hour ago, Suika said:

CPU performance may be a slight improvement but GPU performance is definitely a downgrade. The 820M is still Fermi, below your 550 Ti.

 

So I'm guessing that the performance overall will be about the same?

[Suika]

28 minutes ago, User1868 said:

So I'm guessing that the performance overall will be about the same?

For gaming, it probably won't be too hot, even worse in most cases, but for average use, it might be a small upgrade.