Good Specs for a Laptop?

[shaks109]

17.3" Optimus III Laptop

Optimus Series: 17.3" Glossy Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Mobile Processor i5-3360M (2.80GHz) 3MB

Memory (RAM) 4GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 2GB)

Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M - 1.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11

Other:

500GB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)

GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1102 WIRELESS GAMING 802.11N NETWORK CARD

Optimus/Voyager Series 6 Cell Lithium-ION Battery (48.84WH)


any other details needed please reply.



Are these good specs for Video streaming, Gaming... etc.

 

[hang-the-9]

Good specs, yes, but you may want to move to a larger drive or maybe a 7200 rpm drive, especially if you will use this as your main system.

And get a USB drive for backups.

 

[shaks109]

ok thanks

 

[Wisecracker]

It kinda seems like a 'tweener to me.

Do you have a link to the notebook ... and a budget?

 

[shaks109]

http/www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusIII-17/

Its this laptop. the Specs I chose are above as shown. ^

And it also shows what my budget is around.

 

[shaks109]

I'll be changing the Hard disk I chose later to the 7200 rpm drive you suggested.

 

[shaks109]

Which CPU is better?

i7 3610QM (2.30GHz) 6mb

or

i5 3360QM (2.80GHz) 3mb

??? reply ASAP

 

[hang-the-9]

The i7 is faster, on the CPU charts in passmark it's ranked 52, the i5 is in the 150s or so.

 

[Komomu]

Which CPU is better?

i7 3610QM (2.30GHz) 6mb

or

i5 3360QM (2.80GHz) 3mb

??? reply ASAP

The i5 does not have on a Q, the i7 is a quad core which is why it has on the q

 

[edit1754]

The Core i7 is overall more powerful, but gaming depends much more on the GPU than it does on the CPU. If you have extra cash lying around, you might want to consider going with one of the GTX 660M / GTX 670M equipped PCSpecialist models.