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Why only test against the A-6 and A-8 APU's and leave out the A-10 APU's?

This is total crap you cant even oc the igpu a ati 6410D oced to 1200 mhz will beat that crap any time of day.And you compare the strongest mobile cpu to some low and middle end ones lets copmare that to a desktop with a amd fx 4150,6 GB of ram at 1600 and nvidia 520/610GT the performance would be 10x better then the intel igpu crap.Face it intel fanboys intel is to lazy to make any normal drivers so if you want budget pc go with amd apu or nvidia loewer end

Your benchmarks are SERIOUSLY SKEWED.  You mostly used very much slower processors with the video cards, thus giving inaccurate benchmark results. If you look closely at your "bar graph" you see that an i3 processor system with an entry level video card will consistently outperform an i7 processor system with the "Intel HD 4000".  This only proves that "integrated video" is still crap.
- Rashid

I'm amused by many of the comments here. Some people are talking about LOW END graphics solutions as if they are bleeding edge card competitions. The difference between 17 and 24 fps is significant, but come on, neither are really acceptable if you are a real gamer.

Having said that, I have a new MacBook Pro with a dual core i7 HD4000 chip (4MB L3 cache) and I did not plan on doing any gaming on it, but after doing some trials in Mountain Lion and Windows 7, I find that I can run Wow, LoTRO, Civ5, STO, Dragons Age, and other games not just adequately, but beautifully. Of course, none of the these are especially demanding games, but again, it isn't my gaming system, and I knew what I was getting in video when I bought it.

On top of it all, unlike the gaming laptops I've owned, the whole system remains cool and quiet during the most demanding gaming I've thrown at it. Much different than past systems that almost burned my hands on the wrist rests.

My conclusion based on my 3 month usage experience with this system is that, if you are a person that does moderate gaming and need a laptop or all-in-one system without a discrete graphics card for moderate gaming you can do a lot worse, and based on the content of the article, getting a quad core version of this i7 will grant an even better graphics experience.

Intel... Please buy NVDIA or AMD so you can improve your graphics chip. Come on!

AMD's just plain suck, get over it!

You are so biased towards Intel. You put desktop quad i7s with 1600Mhz RAM in the HD 4000 comp. You then can't compare it to the "top of the line Llano" when the Llano chips are lower power consumption laptop chips with 1333Mhz RAM. I guarantee you if you upgraded the Llano to a desktop version with faster clocked RAM it would do better than the HD 4000. I'm not sure what kind of comparison this is.

A few words about the article:

1) Unfortunately, there wasn´t much time to write it. I made it in two days between the Asus G75 and the MSI GT70 review. You can see that a little i guess 

2) The verdict is updated since a couple of days (indeed, the sentence concerning Llano wasn´t really correct). And the translation from german to other languages can take a while.

3) The A8-3520M was the strongest Llano-CPU with enough gaming-benchmarks in our database. Of course, a MX-model would be more fair, but with Intels market-domination there are not a lot of AMD-notebooks coming to use.