Quicksync was added in second gen...http://ark.intel.com/products/52207/Intel-Core-i5-2400-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz
Well look at that - my current laptop already has an i7 chip in it, but it was 3rd generation and I thought that meant it wasn't good enough. Apparently I was wrong. Very good to know - you might have just saved me a few hundred dollars Thanks a lot.
It doesn't have HD Graphics 4600, but it does have HD Graphics 4000. Is that good enough?