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Stysner

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Yes, especially if you build your own desktop, than the price / performance gap is huge. If you don't, you'll still get better performance for the price, although you would have to factor in keyboard, monitor, speakers, stuff like that.

It's up to you. If you don't plan on taking it with you, get a desktop, it'll be more comfortable, bigger screen, better keyboard, better sound, better price/performance...
 
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At a given price, a desktop is almost always a lot faster than a laptop, and more upgradable too. You didn't expect you could stuff the same parts into a very tiny specialized enclosure, with a battery, and get better performance? Plus, high performance laptops tend to be very bulky, loud, heavy, and have poor battery life, making them poor portables.

What do you intend to use your PC for?
 
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well ill used it on games and rendering on sketchup. i just cant believe that on the given link that a pentium g4400 is almost equivalent to i7-6500u which is on the laptop i intend to buy and its also faster than my laptop which has an i7-4500u. what can u say abt this?
 
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The i7 6500u is a dual core clocked at 3.1ghz. The Pentium G4400is a dual core clocked at 3.3ghz. The i7 6700K is a quad core clocked at 4.2ghz.

A laptop i7 is relatively faster than a laptop i5, i3 or Pentium, but it is not the same as a desktop i7, which is faster relative to desktop i5's and so on.
 
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what really matters to me is the price and performance, mobility is just second on my priority but im just doubtful abt the big difference in terms of price and performance on a desktop pc that it can outperformed the laptop that much. can you explain y and on what basis. because if i undwrstand it correctly, the article on the link tells me that your paying alot for portability and just get a fraction of the performance
 
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But think about it, think about all the components needing to be WAY smaller, which is more expensive. The coolers have to be very efficient and sturdy, because the laptop hardly has any breathing room, desktop PCs need 2 relatively cheap fans, and those plus the fan on your CPU and graphics card have a lot of room around them and can suck in air easily, making cooling more efficient and cheaper.

A desktop PC doesn't have a battery, doesn't include a screen, webcam, keyboard or trackpad.

Yes, portability is THAT expensive. It has to be built compactly, it has to be able to be cooled under way worse conditions, power limitations are factor...

And as Ecky said, the naming scheme Intel uses is confusing, because an i7 in a laptop can be worse than a cheap i3 for desktop. It's facts.

Believe it!

Oh and it's even worse than Ecky said, the i76500u can turbo ONE CORE to 3.1GHz, but if all cores are active they're all clocked at 2.5GHz. So an i76500u is bascially a desktop i3 at 2.5GHz. The cheapest (recent and in stock almost everywhere) i3 is the 4150, which is clocked at 3.5GHz, and has the same amount of cores and threads as the i76500u. So it's a full GHz faster, yet the cheapest desktop i3.
 
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