You want an i5 3xxx CPU, and at least a 630M dGPU. AMD's current laptop cpus do with 4 cores what an Intel does with 2 - essentially, in single threaded apps, AMD is half as fast. Bulldozer is worse than their last gen CPUs... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...
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