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Okay, so my both me and my friend of mine graduated this year. I did pretty well for myself with present, I got a $500 watch, and like $500 more in cash and gift cards, but my friends uncle decided to buy him a new laptop. The laptop which he received was a Toshiba Satellite. It has 12gb of ram, an i7-4150u, and a 1tb HDD, but not a graphics chip. Granted, the 4th gen i7u is better than my second generation i5u in my laptop, but I'm still trying to figure out a few things. First, why in the hell his uncle thought that this was a good graduation present, and two, why are there 12gb's of ram in a computer that doesn't even have a GPU?!

 

Please help me understand, seriously, I'm on the brink of just telling him to just sell the laptop and get a real one. 

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No GPU, so running graphics on APU/CPU, so I would guess shared memory?!?

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Because people are not all about gaming, and many thjings use ram and CPU but not gpu

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12 GB of ram....

 

It's probably because it's a laptop designed for office users that need enough ram for their uses.

 

There is an integrated gpu (Intel HD 4400). That's why because Toshiba needed  to have some cuts in order to sell a computer for a specific price with that amount of ram.

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11 minutes ago, positivePXL said:

The laptop which he received was a Toshiba Satellite. why are there 12gb's of ram in a computer that doesn't even have a GPU?!

It's not a gaming laptop

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Maybe he does graphics designing?
I would personally get an i7 12GB system over an i5 system with a GPU because of that reason.

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12gb because the manufacturer may have been building them initially with a large batch order of 4gb SODIMMs, and when prices crashed, decided to throw an extra 8 in there.  8gb is minimum these days, so an extra 4gb gives you a bit of headroom.

 

As far as graphics chip goes, the HD4400 is very capable.  Its not a gaming chip, but then again, gaming on a laptop is relatively futile and almost never a great experience compared to a proper desktop gaming rig.  Upgraded with an appropriate SSD, it should be a pretty good laptop for college where gaming is more of a distraction than a useful feature on a laptop. 

 

The Toshiba definitely wouldn't be my first choice, but I'm not sure if there's really a lot of resale value available for it.  Yeah I would have rather a Dell Latitude, but whether the Toshiba is sell-able for enough to buy a Haswell Latitude, I'm not sure. 

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There are laptops for different things than gaming.

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