I just bought an HP g7 laptop a week ago, its got an A6 3420m in it, 4gb ram, 500gb 5400rpm hdd... I like the laptop as its my first ever. The gaming performance is pretty decent but I want a little more then what its putting out..
Originally my budget was only $300 for a basic e series laptop but then after research i decided i wanted an A4 for $350 but then changed my mind while in the store and got the A6 for $450. However now im thinking of returning it and getting the A8 based on it getting supposedly 25% more fps then the A6 GPU gets due to the full unlocked shader cores. That and the A8 laptop has 6gb of ram, and a 750gb 7200 rpm HDD.. but its $580.. So i would have to wait till next week payday to make up for the difference..
So the A8 laptop would be much faster overall.. However the screen is only a 15 inch display and my 17 inch is much much better looking so thats why i dunno, i like the bigger displays vs small ones on laptops.. But to get the 17 inch A8 i would need $700 which im not willing to spend on a laptop hell $600 is pushing it.. But then someone told me to return my A6 and wait for the Trinity laptops.. I never heared of those and it seems from what i dug up they should be out in the next month... Does anyone have any idea when, and how much these laptop's will be for the quadcore versions ? Because if its over $700 i might as well stick with the Llano.
Also I do have a main gaming machine, its fairly old now an E8400 Wolfdale @ 4.4ghz, 4GB DDR2, and a ATI 4890.. However despite it being 3 years old now " i think ? lol " it still runs games such as skyrim maxed out altho skyrim isnt the best graphicly but im just giving that as an example.. I dont plan to upgrade my PC in the future for now because im more concerned with fixing up my Jeep, then I am with computers these days.. As such this is my first ever laptop and I want something decent that will last awhile without being a total peice of garbage after only 1-2 years
Originally my budget was only $300 for a basic e series laptop but then after research i decided i wanted an A4 for $350 but then changed my mind while in the store and got the A6 for $450. However now im thinking of returning it and getting the A8 based on it getting supposedly 25% more fps then the A6 GPU gets due to the full unlocked shader cores. That and the A8 laptop has 6gb of ram, and a 750gb 7200 rpm HDD.. but its $580.. So i would have to wait till next week payday to make up for the difference..
So the A8 laptop would be much faster overall.. However the screen is only a 15 inch display and my 17 inch is much much better looking so thats why i dunno, i like the bigger displays vs small ones on laptops.. But to get the 17 inch A8 i would need $700 which im not willing to spend on a laptop hell $600 is pushing it.. But then someone told me to return my A6 and wait for the Trinity laptops.. I never heared of those and it seems from what i dug up they should be out in the next month... Does anyone have any idea when, and how much these laptop's will be for the quadcore versions ? Because if its over $700 i might as well stick with the Llano.
Also I do have a main gaming machine, its fairly old now an E8400 Wolfdale @ 4.4ghz, 4GB DDR2, and a ATI 4890.. However despite it being 3 years old now " i think ? lol " it still runs games such as skyrim maxed out altho skyrim isnt the best graphicly but im just giving that as an example.. I dont plan to upgrade my PC in the future for now because im more concerned with fixing up my Jeep, then I am with computers these days.. As such this is my first ever laptop and I want something decent that will last awhile without being a total peice of garbage after only 1-2 years