Our exuberantly configured review sample sports 16 GB of working memory, a 256 GB SSD and Windows 8 and adds up to a total price of a steep 1400 Euros (~$1859). While the cheapest entry-level configuration featuring Intel's Core i7-4750HQ, 4 GB of RAM and a 320 GB hard drive costs approximately 1000 Euros (~$1328), lush storage or warranty upgrades quickly boost the price by several hundred Euros. Schenker sells the W740SU in Germany under the name S413 and it can be customized as usual. According to Intel, the new Iris Pro Graphics 5200 integrated in a few Haswell processors competes with Nvidia's GeForce GT 650M - a swift dedicated mid-range graphics card, which for example powered last year's MacBook Pro 15 Retina.Ĭlevo is one of the first manufacturers to introduce a barebone designed for the Iris Pro. However, these times are to be a thing of the past. Even if this has changed to some extent in the last few years with AMD's Llano and Trinity APUs, integrated GPUs nevertheless remained to be a low-end solution for price conscious buyers. The weak IGPs of the past were in fact unusable even for casual gamers. The term "integrated graphics" and "gaming" were among them for a long time. For the original German review, see here.
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