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Is it better than my desktop in all aspects? here are the specs for my desktop

Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHZ
4GB RAM
GeForce 8600GT


also what can I expect performance wise will it be much faster than my desktop?
 
RacecarBMW
Is it better than my desktop in all aspects? here are the specs for my desktop

Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHZ
4GB RAM
GeForce 8600GT


also what can I expect performance wise will it be much faster than my desktop?
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Not in the slightest bit. Definitely wont handle games as well either.
 
Hey, thought I jump in as well ^^
Does it really have to be a laptop??
If you have any chance go for a desktop again.
with 2 ghz you are hitting the limit for all coming games.
8GB of RAM is enough, 16GB good but not required.
The grafix can be often a little confusing, because the mobile chips not always bring the same performance as desktop GPUs.

BTW nice rims on your M3 ;P The standard BBS Motorsport in black are also my first choice
 
If it were me in this situation I'd be looking at what I could keep from the desktop and budgeting for the new parts, but that depends on being able to reuse the PSU, monitor and hard drive. I'm guessing the optical drive is fine, too. I'm sure you could get a motherboard, an i5 2500K, a reasonable graphics card and 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz for the same as that laptop, and even if it is a little more you'll be futureproofing yourself to an extent with the 2500K (because it's easily overclocked), whereas the laptop processor is a third slower, and if you came into possession of, say, £1,000, and you wanted to waste it on your PC, if you had a desktop already you could buy two high-end graphics cards and a decent PSU, whereas if you don't already have the desktop you have to buy one first.

That's just how I look at it. Then again you might actually want a laptop for it's mobility, in which case what do I know? My laptop doesn't even have a functioning battery in it.
 
Hmm ok forget the gaming aspect general performance, browsing, word processing and the odd game (flight simulator maybe) and youtube browsing. Not full blown gaming I am not buying this for gaming.
 
also I know benchmarks aren't everything but the benchmarks for both the processor and gpu are substantially higher than my desktop.
 
It should be better all around. Can't really make too much of a judgement based on benchmarks like passmark. The graphics benchmarks could be a bit more representative. The thing that is going to be worse is the 5400RPM hard drive, so programs might load slower.
 
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It should be better all around. Can't really make too much of a judgement based on benchmarks like passmark. The graphics benchmarks could be a bit more representative. The thing that is going to be worse is the 5400RPM hard drive, so programs might load slower.
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If I have it connected to a monitor, so basically a dual monitor setup using the laptop screen and a separate monitor) will I notice a big difference in performance? I think it has been established already that this thing has a really weak graphics card.
 
Don't really know, since I only used dual monitors for brief periods of time. But I don't see the performance being affected unless you're gaming.
 
That video doesn't say much apart from that you can play the game at some sort of settings. Though according to this it checks out. He's running at a lower resolution so he can squeeze out more FPS.
 
Hmm I haven't had much info on the processor how good is it? Is it better than my current one even though it is clocked .6GHZ lower?
 
Just thought I'd chip in here; I very recently bought a DV6-6b07tx (same design as the one posted on the previous page) with the following specs:

i7-2760QM (2.4GHz, TurboBoost to 3.5GHz)
8GB RAM
ATi Radeon 6770M
1TB HDD
Optional Full HD LED LCD display (15.6")
Blu-Ray Burner

Price: AU$1496

Overall, it's fairly average at running my more graphics-intensive games (Just Cause 2 and Assassin's Creed II) but it runs MW3 on Extra, 2x anti-aliasing in Full HD which is fine for me; most of the other games I play though aren't exactly taxing even for a laptop. With such a high resolution on a small screen it looks pretty magnificent.

As for every other task, it doesn't even break a sweat. It's also worth noting that I usually have it connected to my 23" FHD LED monitor on the Extend setting; I have the monitor running my games/Photoshop/web browser (whatever I'm doing at the time) and the laptop screen running secondary programs like TeamSpeak, Windows Media Player, MSN, etc.

Most ads I've seen for these laptops, including even the store I bought it from actually misprint the processor as a 2670QM; it's actually a 2760QM with a slightly higher clock speed among other things.
 
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The one that is more expensive has a new HD 7470M GPU chip. You would be better off with the cheaper laptop since the HD 6770M is actually better than the HD 7470M(from what I've seen of an desktop version of an HD 7750 vs an HD 6770). The laptop with the HD 6770 would be cheaper because they are getting rid of stock of the laptops with the HD 6770 chips since they now have a version with the HD 7470M which is newer.
 
Not any I can see from notebookcheck.net when I was looking for some difference in chip size and wattage. The chip size has never changed in the HD 7470M and it's not even worth the extra cost.
 
RacecarBMW
Can someone explain to me why this laptop

http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10360097&whse=BCCA&Ne=5000001+4000000&eCat=BCCA|84|22497&N=4011462%204294967235&Mo=13&No=5&Nr=P_CatalogName:BCCA&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-CA&Sp=C&topnav=

is cheaper than this laptop

http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10365195&whse=BCCA&Ne=5000001+4000000&eCat=BCCA|84|22497&N=4011462%204294967235&Mo=13&No=1&Nr=P_CatalogName:BCCA&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-CA&Sp=C&topnav=

From what I can tell they are exactly the same except for different graphics cards and the cheaper model (1st link) seems to have a better GPU than the more expensive model (2nd link)
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Here is some advice. Get the one with the 6770 in it. They don't even have that one available on HP's site anymore as far as I can tell.
 

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