Been doing a bit of research on laptops and saw this seems to be a good spec for good price, has a slightly enhanced gfx card which is what I've been looking for, everywhere else seems to be £350 upwards for a similar spec. Also for 2 days theres 10% tcb which also helps. Could I get your thoughts? Hope this will help someone.
just found if you go through eBay and use the code cebayargos everyone is talking about you could get it for £297.00
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antonywhite37
9 Dec 16#1
Baffles me why people keep posting a9 laptops, you are paying i5 prices for pentium levels of performance
te721 to antonywhite37
9 Dec 162#2
so what makes an i5 better then this? I checked a site earlier on and with my very little understanding the a9 beat an i5 6200 which cost more It had more cache, ran faster and higher GHz, as I say I'm not to big on tech but on paper this look better, so what am I missing? cheers
Pondlife
9 Dec 161#3
Link the site please, though if you are looking at raw figures and assuming that it'll run faster based on those then you need to look a bit deeper.
this is exactly what I'm asking if this cpu is not better then an i5 despite the figures, then why not what am I missing
Pondlife
9 Dec 161#6
They aren't directly comparable as the architecture is different. Benchmarks aren't totally accurate but they give indication of what's going on under the thermal paste.
Passmark A9 2605 i5 6200u 3923
Even AMD don't really want the A9 to be compared with the i5, their comparison is with the A12 which finally starts to look reasonable.
te721
9 Dec 16#7
ok so would you not recommend this one? am I right in thinking it's a bit behind compared to i5?
Remitto
10 Dec 16#8
You have ripped into the AMD but have still not actually given a reason why it is inferior. I have heard many times AMD processors pack a far greater punch in terms of gaming. I don't know much about it myself either but you seem to just be being negative for the sake of it.
gowf
10 Dec 16#9
The a9 is inferior to the i5, in most of the top benchmark sites. The new amd apu are decent value however and have a comparable integrated graphics card compared to the Intel hd integrated ones. Amd processors tend to have more cores but less power in each core. This often can be good for multi core supported applications which are CPU intense. However not every game can be supported this way. the new i5 skylake cpu are hyperthread compatible which reduces that amd advantage. Amd are decent CPUs but are cheaper and slower. I'm sure there are more serious cpu peeps on these forums but that's the gist of my know how on this.
For the same price bracket I would go for the i5 with ssd on e buyer which is going for £330
captainalexkirk to gowf
11 Dec 16#13
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hey man, i recently got the A12 that was popular on this site.. sold at John Lewis.. but im having doubts now after testing the new machine out. ..can you fire me a link for this i5 you mention please?
cheers
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just found if you go through eBay and use the code cebayargos everyone is talking about you could get it for £297.00
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Passmark A9 2605 i5 6200u 3923
Even AMD don't really want the A9 to be compared with the i5, their comparison is with the A12 which finally starts to look reasonable.
For the same price bracket I would go for the i5 with ssd on e buyer which is going for £330
hey man, i recently got the A12 that was popular on this site.. sold at John Lewis.. but im having doubts now after testing the new machine out. ..can you fire me a link for this i5 you mention please?
cheers