Upgrade PC to Laptop or...

[jfernandoghe]

I need to do an upgrade on mi current PC:

Elitegroup G31T-M9 (V1.0),
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300,
4 Gb Ram DDR2,
Sapphire HD 6870,
Regular PSU 500W

This are my options:
-Standart Laptop plus MOBO, CPU and RAM upgrade (Maybe an i5, with 8Gb RAM, and a microATX Asus MOBO)
-Sell current PC to buy a kickass Laptop (Asus G46VWm, Alienware M14x or maybe a Lenovo) and a 24" Led monitor
-Buy a Asus G46VW, keep current rig and monitor


I use CAD programs, edit and convert vid/pictures, program and debug/program MCU,PLC,DSP,FPGA,etc... My usual PC games are Battlefield 3, COD 4 MW, Batman Arkham City/Asylum, Prototype, Portal, Dirt 3, etc
I'm planning of getting an intership somewhere in my country, and also taking curses abroad on summer...

 

[USAFRet]

Seeing as you're planning on moving around over the next few months, a laptop would seem to be in order.

(but not an Alienware)

 

[jfernandoghe]

Should I keep mi PC or try selling it now there's a change? I multitask a lot, do PC multitasks better than Laptops?

 

[USAFRet]

Selling it is up to you, but it is just hardware. Sell it now, and get a better one when you're done moving around so much.

 

[jfernandoghe]

It's to much problem to downgrade the Asus G46VW to WIN 7??

 

[kenrivers]

If you decide to downgrade you might want to make sure Windows 7 drivers are available from Asus. I did a quick search and the only two options were Windows 8 and Other. Under Other the drivers available were EMI and Safety, BIOS and BIOS utilities.

 

[jfernandoghe]

Somewhere I read that Win 8 drivers are compartible with Win 7, only a small change have to be done in order to make them work... I'll take a look. In http/www.hidevolution.com/ you can take the G46VW with Win 7.

Also, the SSD would be a much upgrade on the speed of load games and programs? In my desktop I got a Seagate Barracuda at 7200...

 

[kenrivers]

From personal experience I can say that programs will load faster on an SSD and I've read that games will load faster as well. I can't comment on how an SSD will affect game play since I am not a gamer. After moving my OS and programs from an HDD to an SSD I have no intention of going back to an HDD as a boot (OS) drive. I still use HDDs for storage.