Hello, I'm choosing laptop for work (java-based ide, firefox with 20+ tabs and occasionally photoshop) and gaming and can't decide which model should I get.
DV6-3040 seems to be nice, but it's has only 15.6"
DV7-4030 is big enough, but I'm not sure about i5-450m. It gets 11% less points than i7-720qm on 3dmark and has only 2 cores, but will it be noticeable in most current games? I've also heard that it's impossible to install latest catalyst drivers because of the second GPU (i5 seems to have one). No sure if that is true.
DV7-4120 has a slightly better i5-460m, but its 4gb memory comes as single block, so no dual channel memory, unless I'll get another 4gb which I'm not really willing to do.
Any advice?
DV6-3040 seems to be nice, but it's has only 15.6"
DV7-4030 is big enough, but I'm not sure about i5-450m. It gets 11% less points than i7-720qm on 3dmark and has only 2 cores, but will it be noticeable in most current games? I've also heard that it's impossible to install latest catalyst drivers because of the second GPU (i5 seems to have one). No sure if that is true.
DV7-4120 has a slightly better i5-460m, but its 4gb memory comes as single block, so no dual channel memory, unless I'll get another 4gb which I'm not really willing to do.
Any advice?