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Notebook GPU and CPU?

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hennessy1

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I know that a quad cpu in a notebook kills battery life but is there any need for it or is a higher clocked 2 core cpu sufficient?

Also is it worth the extra money to buy a notebook with a gt200m gpu or better to stay with the gt100m series?


I wish to run vm's on my notebook if I have to. I can't really see myself playing to many games but my main concern is if I choose something to underpowered then I won't get as much life out of it as I would with something higher priced now.
 
Vm's? If you're not gaming I doubt you need to worry much about the GPU. GT100m series should be more than enough. Are you sure quad core kills battery? I thought the unused cores practically shut down on newer CPU's. I'm sure if you're doing something that needs 4 cores it will certainly affect battery life. A higher power GPU will significantly affect battery also.
 
I am not positive about the quad killing the battery life. I had assumed though it would. So that GT100m series should be sufficient for anything I need to do correct? I won't be gaming if I do it won't be a brand new game if anything it will be something from the battlefield series.
 
there are settings in windows that let you adjust for power or battery life

i guess vm = virtual machine?
 
Yeah virtual machine. I knew about the power settings but I assumed that regardless of what you chose it still wouldn't last long.
 
What kind of VM's are you running? What is your processor usage normally? 30%? 100%? Most people don't use all their processor power unless they're encoding video or audio. I doubt battlefield 1942 will be a problem for any new processors. Veitnam, maybe. I don't know much about VM's so I'm not really sure what would benefit you most. The new i7 processors will downclock to save battery. I thought all newer processors did this but I see Intel is proud of this with the i7's.
 
There isn't a steady number of proc. usage. It varies. I use the VM's for over the phone help calls. I don't use them for any encoding. The video card is what concerned me that it wouldn't be good enough to run those games. As for the CPU I thought the new i7 cores did down clock but the older core 2's did not and ran at w/e speed they are clocked at constantly.
 
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