Which Laptop...

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broken flyer

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Well, I'm looking to get a laptop as the title suggests, however I'm not sure where to go. This all started when a few months ago I started looking at getting a tablet for drawing on. Then I saw a PC tablet and thought, I've got to have one of those, it'd be so much more useful. So then when researching those I found out about all of the Windows 8 convertibles, had my heart set on one of those, thinking with the kinds of specs some of them were boasting(Sony Vaio DUO) that I'd be able to replace my desktop with it and play games on it as well. Then just for fun I went and researched out gaming on Intel HD 4000 graphics and I wasn't real impressed. Now I'm considering just getting a cheap, traditional laptop that will do the job. I found this one at best buy and the spec's seem pretty impressive for the price.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+EN...63771&skuId=6819205&st=hp envy 15.6&cp=1&lp=1

However, I see that best buy is going to have the intel version of this laptop on sale black friday for $499 and with 8gb of ram.

https://blackfriday.bestbuy.com/com...+8gb+memory++750gb+hard+drive++natural+silver

That's obviously a better CPU, and more ram for the money, but again lacking on the graphic end. Now I'm wondering if it would be worth the $100 savings to get the better CPU, sacrifice the GPU, and get a bit more RAM.

But if I'm going to do that then I might just go back to the Sony Vaio Duo as I'd originally had my sights set on, plus that would have 256gb SSD, and an IPS 1080p panel. I really don't know what to do.

What do you all think other then I'm over analyzing this?

Thanks.
 
I doubt this will help you in your decision but, if I were looking to buy a computer (desktop or laptop) that comes with Win 8 pre-installed, I would want a touchscreen. Win 8 will work perfectly fine with a mouse but it is really designed for a touchscreen.
 
I do not want a touch screen laptop. I don't see any point/advantage to a touchscreen on a traditional laptop, however I do like the idea of convertibles and see a need for them(for me it'd be drawing and writing on it as well as being able to use is at a laptop and being able to plug it into a monitor and a wireless keyboard/mouse to use a desktop). It's all on one device. That device(if power full enough) and my phone would be all I'd need, but I'm not sure if the Intel HD 4000 Graphics that come with these would be sufficient to play games on and if it is, if it's really worth all that extra money to get it on one device when I could get an awesome laptop for $600 that will beat it graphically, but be lacking the convertible aspect of it.
 
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