I was browsing laptops and settled on the HP g62t with i5 m460 with 4gb DDR3, 320 7200RPM HD, and ATI 5470 because it seemed like the best bang for the buck at $634 before tax and shipping...until the day I was going to buy. On Saturday, I stumbled upon the HP DV6Z, and after configuring it, I ended up with the AMD Phenom II x3 n850 alongside 4gb DDR3 RAM, but what sold me was the ATI 5650 1GB card and free upgrade to a 500gb 7200RPM HD, all for $700 (when I entered a $20 coupon).
I purchased the DV6Z, and it is expected to get here sometime next week or the week afterwards. Yet, I've been hearing that the AMD X3 n850 is not only slower than all Intel mobile processors released in the last two years, but it's only comparable to low-end Core 2 Duos, and has extremely low benchmarks when compared to chipsets like the I3 3xx series.
My question is; did I make a mistake by going with the AMD processor so that I could get the great graphics card and larger hard drive on the cheap? Will there be a massive reduction in performance, or will it be evened out by the 4gb of DDR3 and 7200RPM HD, when it comes to multitasking and playing games?
If anybody owns a laptop with an n830 or n850, could you tell me how you've felt about it? And finally, I've heard that a forth core can be unlocked. Will I be able to do this with the n850, because I don't know of any 4 core processors clocked at 2.2ghz...so I have some doubt about that.
What I'll be doing with the laptop? Internet browsing, movie watching, some light multitasking...maybe some video editing, and some occasional game playing (which is why I went with the ATI 5650)
Thanks for your time.
I purchased the DV6Z, and it is expected to get here sometime next week or the week afterwards. Yet, I've been hearing that the AMD X3 n850 is not only slower than all Intel mobile processors released in the last two years, but it's only comparable to low-end Core 2 Duos, and has extremely low benchmarks when compared to chipsets like the I3 3xx series.
My question is; did I make a mistake by going with the AMD processor so that I could get the great graphics card and larger hard drive on the cheap? Will there be a massive reduction in performance, or will it be evened out by the 4gb of DDR3 and 7200RPM HD, when it comes to multitasking and playing games?
If anybody owns a laptop with an n830 or n850, could you tell me how you've felt about it? And finally, I've heard that a forth core can be unlocked. Will I be able to do this with the n850, because I don't know of any 4 core processors clocked at 2.2ghz...so I have some doubt about that.
What I'll be doing with the laptop? Internet browsing, movie watching, some light multitasking...maybe some video editing, and some occasional game playing (which is why I went with the ATI 5650)
Thanks for your time.