Loving my new laptop, important bits of the spec:
One question though, I wonder why my new 4th gen i7 laptop's Windows Aero performance is slower than my 2nd gen i7 desktop. The new laptop has a faster/newer-gen processor running on faster memory with a much much better graphics card (GTX870M in my new laptop vs AMD 5800HD from 2011 in my desktop. Here's the WEI from my i7-2600K/16GB 3 year old 2nd gen desktop:
and here's the one from my 1 day old 4th gen i7-4910MQ/8GB faster memory better graphics card laptop:
#1 - I thought the processor might be at least a 0.1 score higher, it's the same. That's a little bit surprising, but not too much.
#2 - I thought the Memory might be a 0.1 score higher, but instead it's 0.1 lower. That's very surprising. I lowered the speed on my desktop from 1600 to 1333 when I was having some system freezes and that resolved them, so I left it there. So the new machine with 1600MHz hyper-x memory should burn the desktop into the ground. Amazed I didn't get a 7.9 on that.
#3 - This is the most surprising. Why would Aero performance be a whole 0.8 down compared to my desktop. I wonder if I need to match the enabled/disabled aero options (like whether you see the contents of a window as you drag it, whether things have shadows and that kind of thing).
#4 - Gaming graphics is a good chunk faster. Not important to me but it is something I expect to see there. My new laptop's graphics card is way better.
#5 - Disk transfer rate. Well, you can't improve on a 7.9. I'd have to run a disk benchmark to find out how fast my 2014 SSD's are compared to my desktop's 2011 (Samsung 830) SSD's are, but it's all good.
I did have a worrying moment in my first half hour with the laptop. I was hearing a very high pitched background sound and wondering what it could be. The only moving parts in there should be the fans (which weren't running) and the optical drive (which wasn't running). Drove myself crazy for a while until I realised it was/is the power adapter. Nothing to worry about, that'll be under the desk eventually. Phew.
No regrets yet.
One question though, I wonder why my new 4th gen i7 laptop's Windows Aero performance is slower than my 2nd gen i7 desktop. The new laptop has a faster/newer-gen processor running on faster memory with a much much better graphics card (GTX870M in my new laptop vs AMD 5800HD from 2011 in my desktop. Here's the WEI from my i7-2600K/16GB 3 year old 2nd gen desktop:
and here's the one from my 1 day old 4th gen i7-4910MQ/8GB faster memory better graphics card laptop:
#1 - I thought the processor might be at least a 0.1 score higher, it's the same. That's a little bit surprising, but not too much.
#2 - I thought the Memory might be a 0.1 score higher, but instead it's 0.1 lower. That's very surprising. I lowered the speed on my desktop from 1600 to 1333 when I was having some system freezes and that resolved them, so I left it there. So the new machine with 1600MHz hyper-x memory should burn the desktop into the ground. Amazed I didn't get a 7.9 on that.
#3 - This is the most surprising. Why would Aero performance be a whole 0.8 down compared to my desktop. I wonder if I need to match the enabled/disabled aero options (like whether you see the contents of a window as you drag it, whether things have shadows and that kind of thing).
#4 - Gaming graphics is a good chunk faster. Not important to me but it is something I expect to see there. My new laptop's graphics card is way better.
#5 - Disk transfer rate. Well, you can't improve on a 7.9. I'd have to run a disk benchmark to find out how fast my 2014 SSD's are compared to my desktop's 2011 (Samsung 830) SSD's are, but it's all good.
I did have a worrying moment in my first half hour with the laptop. I was hearing a very high pitched background sound and wondering what it could be. The only moving parts in there should be the fans (which weren't running) and the optical drive (which wasn't running). Drove myself crazy for a while until I realised it was/is the power adapter. Nothing to worry about, that'll be under the desk eventually. Phew.
No regrets yet.
I can dig that