Sign in with
Sign up | Sign in
Your question

Laptop and H.264 1080 streaming, 1900x1200

Tags:
  • Laptops
  • Streaming
  • CPUs
October 10, 2014 7:25:47 PM

It's almost black Friday, and I'm having trouble making out what kind of CPU is good these days for a media laptop. I have the information below on what I am currently using, and it's now five years old and showing its age. I cannot watch NHL game center without lag and maximum CPU usage. Even Netflix, which used to be running just fine, is experiencing problems now with spiking CPU usage. This laptop has an HDMI port that plugs into my TV.

I consider myself more than decent with computers, and I have done all the maintenance necessary to keep it clean, remove services that are running, virus and malware checking, defragment, scan disk, etc. etc. I want something better, something that's going to last another five years, and preferably something that can do the decoding of compressed video streams at 1900x 1200 without lag. It's a media laptop, after all.

So, how do you tell what laptop CPUs are good? Is there a rundown of laptop CPU performance? Most laptop CPUs look like they are running at much lower frequencies, but it's not always about the frequency but the instruction set of the CPU that matters. So can anyone point me to the CPUs that are going to be able to do the media streaming for H.264?

I kind of wanted to skip Windows 8, but I understand I might get stuck with it.

Currently, I have:

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140303-2144)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Sony Corporation
System Model: VGN-NW270F
BIOS: BIOS Date: 05/09/08 11:12:06 Ver: 08.00.10
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6600 @ 2.20GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3936MB RAM

More about : laptop 264 1080 streaming 1900x1200

!