Hello everyone; As always I appreciate the community feedback before diving into a purchase.
I have this Acer Aspire 5920G, and I believe it's time for a change. It's 3 or 4 years old, and despite being functional and all, it has failed me a couple of times...
The main reason is because it feels heavy and bulky. I'm studying at night while working during the day, far from my parents' house, but I usually come in for a visit every weekend and I have to carry my laptop back and forth. Plus, the battery is really poor, and it heats a lot near the GPU exhaust.
So, I thought I should go with a more compact notebook. Unfortunately some of the machines that caught my eye like:
Dell XPS 13
HP Envy Spectre
Samsung 9 Series
are either not available, or the price range is a bit uncomfortable.
I use my laptop to work, mostly. I do use some of the Adobe tools at work, like Photoshop and Illustrator (which never were a problem on this machine (NVIDIA 9500M 512MB)) and CAD, but most of the work comes from text editors. As for video games, I can't say I don't enjoy getting owned in League of Legends once in a while, so if I could still run it, would be cool; otherwise, I can cope with that.
So, I am almost decided to purchase the Samsung Series 5 .
I'm basically wondering if I will have that 'wow' feeling, considering the machine I use at the moment. Looks like it has an i5 @ ~ 1.60GHz, how different will it be from the Core 2 Duo @ 2.0? The i5 is still a 2 core CPU, right? Let's say power consumption has been decreased (which is great!), is there anything else that would make this machine outperform the one I have at the moment?
What about the video card? Is there a huge performance gain from GDDR2 to GDDR5?
I'm sorry for my unlinked questions, but I've never been into laptops untill I had to. I'm just wondering if this purchase will actually be worth it, or if I should just wait for "something" untill my current machine (in decent condition) wears out?
Thanks in advance!
I have this Acer Aspire 5920G, and I believe it's time for a change. It's 3 or 4 years old, and despite being functional and all, it has failed me a couple of times...
The main reason is because it feels heavy and bulky. I'm studying at night while working during the day, far from my parents' house, but I usually come in for a visit every weekend and I have to carry my laptop back and forth. Plus, the battery is really poor, and it heats a lot near the GPU exhaust.
So, I thought I should go with a more compact notebook. Unfortunately some of the machines that caught my eye like:
Dell XPS 13
HP Envy Spectre
Samsung 9 Series
are either not available, or the price range is a bit uncomfortable.
I use my laptop to work, mostly. I do use some of the Adobe tools at work, like Photoshop and Illustrator (which never were a problem on this machine (NVIDIA 9500M 512MB)) and CAD, but most of the work comes from text editors. As for video games, I can't say I don't enjoy getting owned in League of Legends once in a while, so if I could still run it, would be cool; otherwise, I can cope with that.
So, I am almost decided to purchase the Samsung Series 5 .
I'm basically wondering if I will have that 'wow' feeling, considering the machine I use at the moment. Looks like it has an i5 @ ~ 1.60GHz, how different will it be from the Core 2 Duo @ 2.0? The i5 is still a 2 core CPU, right? Let's say power consumption has been decreased (which is great!), is there anything else that would make this machine outperform the one I have at the moment?
What about the video card? Is there a huge performance gain from GDDR2 to GDDR5?
I'm sorry for my unlinked questions, but I've never been into laptops untill I had to. I'm just wondering if this purchase will actually be worth it, or if I should just wait for "something" untill my current machine (in decent condition) wears out?
Thanks in advance!