So now that I need a new laptop, I've been trying to figure out the exact laptop I want. It needs to be something new, from either amazon.com or hp.com and I'd like it to be an hp pavillion dv7. So my current laptop was something like this:
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2.0 GHz Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology Featuring Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with 3 MB L2 Cache 4096 MB DDR2 System Memory, 320 GB Hard Drive, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT with Up to 2302 MB Total Available Graphics Memory with 512 MB Dedicated
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ProcessorIntel® Core™ i5Processor Speed: 2.3GHz (with Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz)Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6490MVideo Memory: 1GB GDDR5; up to 4837MB total
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Same processorRadeon™ HD 6490M switchable graphics with 1024MB GDDR5 and up to 3813MB total graphics memory
Apparently the Onion is a real newspaper in DC, it explains a lot:
Yeah - The Onion started in print. Its pretty popular in a bunch of cities with colleges, my brother down in Austin, Texas gets it.
They're the same card, but "switchable" means that your display can switch between using your GPU, or a lower power onboard GPU, which is probably a good thing for power consumption.
K, they seemed the same to me but I wasn't sure. How does the power compare to my current laptop though? From what I've managed to find so far, it seems like like it will be just a tiny bit better in most situations.
my friend had a similar laptop to that, until he got mugged :(
Just dont get a cheaper HP laptop, they are absolutely terrible, and you have to yell at the indians before they will do anything for you.
I didnt know that about the onion :o thats pretty coolhttp://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-dv7-6175us-Entertainment-Notebook/dp/B0051OM3W8/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1309404440&sr=1-1
This is the one we've pretty much decided on, not the cheapest place you can find it but when you include the free xbox its an awesome deal.The Onion is a real newspaper in MANY a city, like DC and Austin. Hell, its distributed in free in Austin where I live when I stay there.
12 cities or so, actually. So most people wont be seeing it.