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I just purchased the ASUS A6 laptop with the dedicated graphics card for $449.00. Later that day while on my laptop black lines and white ones where appearing and disappearing on my screen. I was having screen banding issues. I took that laptop back to the bestbuy where I purchased it. I had a member of the geek squad tell me that he had never heard of screen banding and also that I had never installed the spyware (but the computer hadn't even finished loading yet), and i had purchased and dowloaded and activated Kapersky, because the gadget was displayed and active on my desktop. He was very impolite and un-professional. It seemed like he had no technology education. They finally re-placed my laptop which I had had for only one day with the same one. Later that day it froze and turned teal and pink lines on the screen. I'm now taking it back for a full refund. I'm very unhappy with best buys service. I'm not blaming them for the laptop issues just the service. So now I need to know what laptop would be good for sims 3 and itunes and oovoo and skype. I would like a dedicated graphics card also. Not too pricey. I was looking at this one
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I had the same idea.  I tried to purcxhase that laptop and Best Buy gave me the wrong one (an i3 without discrete video).    In any case, reading about AMD cpu's and dual video cards, you may have been lucky.   Banding is prevalent, the AMD cpu is very slow (slower than an i3 by a good deal) and the dual video card as used by AMD apparently doesn't work very well.    
What to get?    My problem now, too.   Maybe a Dell XPS 15 or Dell XPS 15z.  Get the 1920 x 1080 screen not the 1366 x 768 junk spread across a large screen.   Of course, a relatively cheap Alienware M14x can be had if you're a heavy gamer and willing to put up with fan noise.  
Probably the best choice --- an xps 8300 (well made now) with an i7, good video card, 7200, and so on.   BB site lists one for $859 or so --- probably the best buy in the store and pick out a good screen.     

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