Does this make any sense?

I was wondering if there is any advantage to getting a cheap laptop with a decent dedicated/discrete video card with a weaker processor with the plan to upgrade the processor?

The second part of this question is about the manufacturers and companies of laptops: which company has the easiest models to upgrade (especially in terms of the processor?)?

Asus, maybe? Dell? Toshiba?

I think laptops with T6600 run about $500 to $700 so if you could find one with a decent graphics card????

I would like a cpu eventually that supports virtualization so that is min. P8400?

Or just compare laptops around $1K which have P8400 or better?

 

Normally a laptop with a good GPU has a decent CPU coupled with it. CPUs will rarely bottleneck games unless you have a high end GPU with a low end CPU(which honestly I have never seen). The only example I can recall was the late Asus G51Vx and G50vt which both had high end GPUs(the GTX260M and the 9800M GS) coupled with "ok" CPUs(notably the P7350 and P8400), but in both cases the CPU would rarely bottleneck.

Also, note that upgrading the CPU voids some manufacturers' warranties(some don't care though).

 

As far as getting cheap laptops with weak processors and good dedicated , GPUs... i se quite a lot of those on the market... they're certainly cheaper than similar ones with better CPU's... but you can uprgade to a better CPU easily.... for most upgradeable laptops , i recommend acer... very to upgrade the CPU and GPU(MXM format GPU's )... Asus and dell are easy to upgrade too... now if u want a laptop with a CPU which can support virtualisation , u can choose the first way or get a laptop with the CPU already... i prefer the second way... I would say u should get a P8700 as a minimum... optimally , T9600 or P9600... if u want a great gaming laptop for around 1K , ASUS G51 is a great choice...