Hoping someone can offer a quick tip to help me out. I currently use a desktop (for power) and a laptop (for mobility). I would love to reduce my technology count and just use one, fast and mobile laptop. However, I don't want to just replace my existing specs, I'd like to (hopefully) double my current specs.
My old desktop is an HP a6650f with an AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core with 6GB of PC2-6400 RAM. The new laptop I am looking at is the ASUS S56CA-DH51 with an i5-3317U and 6GB of DDR3 1600 (that I thought about upgrading to 8GB). The CPU benchmarks are 2484 and 3128, respectively. I having a hard time believing that a a brand new, seemingly nice laptop is only 25% faster/better/strong than my 5-yr-old desktop. My guess is that there is more that goes into a computers overall performance that I'm just not thinking of here.
So, can someone help me out? Is the newer CPU technology and the difference in RAM enough to satisfy my "double performance" desire or is this new laptop really only marginally better than my 5-yr-old desktop?
A sincere thank you to anyone that can help me out!
My old desktop is an HP a6650f with an AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core with 6GB of PC2-6400 RAM. The new laptop I am looking at is the ASUS S56CA-DH51 with an i5-3317U and 6GB of DDR3 1600 (that I thought about upgrading to 8GB). The CPU benchmarks are 2484 and 3128, respectively. I having a hard time believing that a a brand new, seemingly nice laptop is only 25% faster/better/strong than my 5-yr-old desktop. My guess is that there is more that goes into a computers overall performance that I'm just not thinking of here.
So, can someone help me out? Is the newer CPU technology and the difference in RAM enough to satisfy my "double performance" desire or is this new laptop really only marginally better than my 5-yr-old desktop?
A sincere thank you to anyone that can help me out!
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