Lenovo Carbon X1

I bought this ultra book with a 1600x900 screen to play the Enhanced Infinity games and Pillars of Eternity. The thing is a dead quiet I5 with an Intel HD4500. Just for grins and giggles I loaded the Original Witcher and amazingly it plays smooth. I had to use the 4GB patch and force high resolution textures but it works. The gameplay is smooth however cutscenes can lag a bit. I played a good hour though, definitely viable.

Just goes to show you that Intel is making major headway with their integrated chipsets. Mine isn't even the latest- that the HD 5000. The only caveat here is that if you buy a retina type screen forget it. Too many pixels to push.

Sorry man, but I think I'll die before PC becomes SoC.

Round trip to work is 2 hours on a train for me. For me small and light laptops have a place. I have a real gaming laptop for home which weighs 8 lbs (the Carbon weighs 2.5) and a few lighter ones for other use cases. My only point is that integrated chipsets are making headway fast. They are cheap and light and generate very little heat. They are 10x more powerful than the original Intel HD and rising.

Yes, it'd be interesting if Intel would start to compete with Nvidia and AMD in the end…

I think the whole thing is expectations … I am typing this on a Macbook Air - 2 lbs, i5, HD5000. I bought it as a general purpose laptop I can carry everywhere … and yet it is quite good at playing Divinity: Original Sin, Wasteland 2, Might & Magic X, and so on.

Does it play with the graphics of my gaming system on the latest Far Cry or Call of Duty games? No. But I really don't care - it pushes out the experience perfectly well.