expiredDr.W posted Nov 17, 2025 04:10 PM
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expiredDr.W posted Nov 17, 2025 04:10 PM
(Refurb) Acer Aspire 14 AI: 14" FHD+ IPS Touch, Intel Ultra 5 226V, 16GB LPDDR5, 1TB SSD
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Arc 130v performs less consistently and generally a bit slower than the 780M, and should probably be compared to a Steam Deck for potential performance. If you're willing to lower the resolution to 720p / 800p, you can probably play most games in low-med. Some older games will actually perform well, but you'll be held back by Intel's drivers and architecture which doesn't do great with DX9 / DX10 games, usually requiring a translation layer to make it playable with a performance penalty. When a game is supported well by the drivers, it can perform similarly to the 780m, but when support is poor... you might as well forget playing that game until Intel releases a fix, if ever. The good news is that Intel has indeed been improving game support over the past couple years, with the Arc GPUs being in a much better place than they were even last year.
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The screen really is washed out for watching videos but fine for browsing, office stuff.
Arc 130v performs less consistently and generally a bit slower than the 780M, and should probably be compared to a Steam Deck for potential performance. If you're willing to lower the resolution to 720p / 800p, you can probably play most games in low-med. Some older games will actually perform well, but you'll be held back by Intel's drivers and architecture which doesn't do great with DX9 / DX10 games, usually requiring a translation layer to make it playable with a performance penalty. When a game is supported well by the drivers, it can perform similarly to the 780m, but when support is poor... you might as well forget playing that game until Intel releases a fix, if ever. The good news is that Intel has indeed been improving game support over the past couple years, with the Arc GPUs being in a much better place than they were even last year.
This is an ENTRY LEVEL PC? This thing seems to have insane specs aside from the 45% color gamut. Obviously not a gaming laptop, but it's not trying to be that anyway. Funny how 10 years ago the specs could be a third of these and it would have been considered high-end.
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Arc 130v performs less consistently and generally a bit slower than the 780M, and should probably be compared to a Steam Deck for potential performance. If you're willing to lower the resolution to 720p / 800p, you can probably play most games in low-med. Some older games will actually perform well, but you'll be held back by Intel's drivers and architecture which doesn't do great with DX9 / DX10 games, usually requiring a translation layer to make it playable with a performance penalty. When a game is supported well by the drivers, it can perform similarly to the 780m, but when support is poor... you might as well forget playing that game until Intel releases a fix, if ever. The good news is that Intel has indeed been improving game support over the past couple years, with the Arc GPUs being in a much better place than they were even last year.
FWIW Allstate gave me a brand new 75" OLED TV almost no questions asked. #Context
I've been here for 18 years
There hasn't been a single laptop deal where some numbnuts hasn't claimed that it's 'only good for email and browsing'
I just ignore them now
This is an ENTRY LEVEL PC? This thing seems to have insane specs aside from the 45% color gamut. Obviously not a gaming laptop, but it's not trying to be that anyway. Funny how 10 years ago the specs could be a third of these and it would have been considered high-end.
I've been here for 18 years
There hasn't been a single laptop deal where some numbnuts hasn't claimed that it's 'only good for email and browsing'
I just ignore them now
I didn't even say entry level PC. I swear, people look for reasons to be triggered in these comments. I hope you read my post before passing judgement upon it. You'll find it's a carefully worded, accurate summary.
Picking a single game's benchmarks and drawing wide ranging conclusions about gaming prowess is a bad idea, unless your use case is very, very specific. I'm all for Intel and want them to succeed as a legitimate 3rd player in the GPU war, but I also do my best to not put my head in the sand.
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