Whats difference in performance (laptop v pc)

pirelli

Whats the difference these days between your average laptop and one of the old run of the mill PC desktops from 2005 like the Dell dimension 5150 with pentium 4.

Is the modern laptop now able to outperform the old pentium 4 desktop pc like deminsion from dell.

Obviously a modern pc desktop would outperform a laptop but what about the old 2003 - 2005 pentium pc desktops like dimension.???????????

Overheal

Yes a laptop can run circles around the older desktops. Higher end laptops outperform most desktops anyway. But mid ranges still do pretty well.

Especially against a single core. Youcrazyjesus? a 3.7ghz single core still has a lot of umph but when multitasking, it will leave you hanging against a 2ghz dualcore.

If the question is Is it worth it to switch to a laptop, yeah you would be alright. You have to put a little more money into a laptop but you can easilly get as much power out of one as most desktops. Youd be looking at 1k euros, as my reccomendation. That would get you a decent++ mobile GPU, fast dualcore, and at least 4gb of ram.

pirelli

Overheal wrote: »

Yes a laptop can run circles around the older desktops. Higher end laptops outperform most desktops anyway. But mid ranges still do pretty well.

Especially against a single core. Youcrazyjesus? a 3.7ghz single core still has a lot of umph but when multitasking, it will leave you hanging against a 2ghz dualcore.

If the question is Is it worth it to switch to a laptop, yeah you would be alright. You have to put a little more money into a laptop but you can easilly get as much power out of one as most desktops. Youd be looking at 1k euros, as my reccomendation. That would get you a decent++ mobile GPU, fast dualcore, and at least 4gb of ram.

Thanks,

I suppose the dual cores are without doubt better chips but its more than just the chip that makes a computer perform and deskstops have that much more power. I am hoping overheal to get a laptop for mobility and so yes i suppose i would be very pleased if my new laptop outperformed my old desktop which i will keep anyway.


I want the HP touchsmart TX but it is an amd turion dual and while AMD are better gamers and business servers etc they have lagged just a little in the average joe requirements.

TerrorFirmer

pirelli wrote: »

Thanks,

I suppose the dual cores are without doubt better chips but its more than just the chip that makes a computer perform and deskstops have that much more power. I am hoping overheal to get a laptop for mobility and so yes i suppose i would be very pleased if my new laptop outperformed my old desktop which i will keep anyway.


I want the HP touchsmart TX but it is an amd turion dual and while AMD are better gamers and business servers etc they have lagged just a little in the average joe requirements.

AMD have lagged in all areas - Intel are king in performance, but AMD offer some pretty good budget solutions too. Turion isn't so bad, and virtually any dual core is faster then a Pentium 4 - and that's assuming you had a 3.4Ghz Pentium 4. If you're talking anything from 2-3Ghz, then even a 1.6Ghz Dual Core will surpass it easily.

I'm unsure as to what your comment means "I suppose the dual cores are without doubt better chips but its more than just the chip that makes a computer perform and deskstops have that much more power." Any mobile dual core CPU featured in a laptops in and over around the 450-500 mark will demolish an old Pentium 4. As to the other components, laptops come with 2GB of ram as standard more or less - quadruple what the standard would have been for Pentium 4 in 2003/2004. Those two components alone are the base power behind any machine...so no, unless you're going into specifics like games, in terms of general day to day use like browsing, encoding, ripping, and so on, it's entirely about CPU and Ram.

You'd really want to be buying an incredibly poor laptop that it wouldn't beat an old Pentium 4 desktop. Even PC World sell dual core machines with 2GB ram for 350-399 new in their own Advent range....

partyatmygaff

Any laptop today barr netbooks would annihalate a P4 System on so many grounds...

The architecture of the CPU is much more efficient now and dual cores help multitasking, P4 CPUs stand no chance against even the weakest core 2 duos.

Ram in the P4 era was 512mb - 1GB and that was pushing it, now its 2GB as a minimum, 4GB slowly is becoming mainstream on Core 2 Duo CPU based laptops, 3GB on the newer Nehalem CPUs.

The HDDs of the P4 era were more than likely ATA-133, a very old and slow link, SATA drives are now standard and are ALOT faster.

Seriously, for all intents and purposes, any laptop on the market now will kill any P4 system.

pirelli

Thanks this thread has been a great source of help.

My pentium 4 has a SATA drive and i know it will outperform most Laptops older than 2 years. The newer laptops sound great, but I am more interested in touchsmart technology and swivle tablet laptops. The touchsmart phone has made me comfortbale using this type of function and i dislike laptop mouse pads. They are not as easy to use as your regualr mouse. If anyone knows of a touchsmart laptop that is at the same level of performance as medium end laptops i would be interested..

I know HP have a the TX but it is not a passive digital touch screen,