Looking to upgrade laptop CPU

whs said:

There are really no 'high performance' laptops. If you really want performance, get a desktop. The laptops are too small to deal with the heat problems of high performance CPUs and GPUs.

Well, there are quite a few "high performance" laptops. The cost of miniaturization is pretty friggin high though, as a general rule of thumb they cost more than twice of a desktop with same specs.

bobafetthotmail said:

whs said:

There are really no 'high performance' laptops. If you really want performance, get a desktop. The laptops are too small to deal with the heat problems of high performance CPUs and GPUs.

Well, there are quite a few "high performance" laptops. The cost of miniaturization is pretty friggin high though, as a general rule of thumb they cost more than twice of a desktop with same specs.

There are laptops with i7s and 1GB GPUs - but when you look at the specs you will discover that those have much lower clock speeds than the equivalent desktop units.

Now that may not matter a lot for the day to day work, but when it comes to e.g. video encoding or fast games, it will make a difference.