Help with laptop choice, i3, any good?

Oh yeah, you guys were right. Why did I think my i3 was a quad core???



Yakumo

 

It's because of the name, makes you think both the i3 and the i5 are scaled down versions of the i7.

 

Hey Golan Trevize, what game is your avatar from? It's also on the DOSBox website, which makes me think I should know it.

 

Because it has 2 cores and 2 threads, so those extra threads show up as "cores" in the Task Manager.

 

Dune 2.

 

Haha, at first glance I thought it was Quark or one of the other Ferengi from Deep Space Nine, such a resemblance.

Thanks for the tips people, I think I know now what's realistic for my price range. Think I'll have a shop about and see what I can find in stores as we can get discount, it's just a matter of choosing between a desktop or a laptop. While its nice to have a portable computer being able to upgrade component by component is something to seriously consider as ultimately I'd like to have a powerful machine, it's just expensive to pay for it all in one. I'm thinking desktop is the way to go though, are there any brands I should avoid?