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Slimebeast on 21 May 2011
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mchaza said:
Slimebeast said:

Honestly that's a poor machine. Much weaker than an X360. Expect to play all games on low settings except for Starcraft II perhaps on medium. And The Witcher 2 is unplayable obviously lol.

thats wrong right there. 

I dont see an better processor and more ram == much weaker than X360. 

The Mobility Radeon 4200 is an integrated graphics chip, not a separate GPU like the Xbox 360 has. And we all know that gaming performance is mainly determined (bottlenecked) by the GPU rather than the CPU.

The GPU in the X360 is equvalent to something between a Radeon X800 and Radeon X1800 (from 2004 and 2005 respectively).

Look at this hierarchy chart. The Mobility Radeon HD 4200 is below both, it's even weaker than the X800 GPU from 2004:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card,2404-7.html

Check out this benchmark (Mobility Radeon 4200 is the same as 785G):
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_785g_performance/page8.asp

Only 24 frames per second in Fallout 3 at 1024x768 res on medium settings. That's clearly worse than Fallout 3 on a X360.

This is how gaming is in real life on a Mobility Radeon 4200: