Legendary Silke
[I][B]You like dragons?[/B][/I]
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That's the specifications of the laptop I'm currently using, in a nutshell, courtesy of Speccy.
If anyone wants more information on exactly what's in the laptop, well, I'll happily oblige.
First, the CPU! It's an Intel Core i7-4700HQ. It has four hyper-threaded cores, giving me a total of eight usable threads. Its base clock speed is 2.4 GHz, and it can turbo all the way up to about 3.4 GHz if need be. Couple all that with the Haswell microarchitecture's high instruction throughput, well, you don't really need to have anything better, right? Also, comes with Intel HD Graphics 4600.
The memory comes second. There are two SODIMMs of DDR3-1600 installed on the laptop, and each are 4 GB in capacity. I have 8 GB of usable memory on the system. Though, slightly over 100 MB are reserved for the hardware, but it's a small drop compared to the rest. Timings are 11-11-11-28, and it's running on dual-channel mode.
The motherboard is a laptop motherboard. It's specialized and designed for this particular laptop (series). Not much else is interesting about it, aside from the fact that it's host to all the other components inside my laptop. It does support USB 3.0, though.
There are actually two graphic processors inside the laptop. The display processor is the Intel HD Graphics 4600. It works nicely on the desktop and makes the laptop sip power when I'm not playing a recent video game on the laptop. I also prefer how colour management is handled by Intel graphics drivers, too.
The render processor is the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M. It handles the hard work of 3D graphics processing when it needs to be done. It's mostly a thankless job, but, hey, it does run a lot of things pretty well at 1080p, but at some point I'll have to drop the resolution down - when quality reductions stop being enough, that is. It's hooked up to the Intel graphics via NVIDIA Optimus and its technology, so really, everything has to go through Intel graphics anyway. But not that it really matters, right?
The integrated laptop display is a Samsung eIPS panel that is capable of 6bpc output. Still, the display appears to be reasonably nice under most circumstances - in fact, this is actually my first laptop that has a display that's more than halfway decent. Standard RGB matrix, maximum 60 Hz refresh rate, some perceptible pixel blurring. It has a matte display cover. I Binged the part number of the display panel, by the way.
The 250 GB Samsung 840 EVO is actually bought after-the-fact. I find it to be a nice thing to have since it pretty much makes everything snappy as heck when I'm not in power-saving mode, where the CPU becomes the bottleneck instead for a reason. Non-critical firmware bugs that are patched up anyway aside, it has been trucking along nicely.
Yeah, that's an optical drive you're looking at. I find it a really nice thing to have, anyway - I find myself burning discs more often than I'd like, so a system with no optical drive is just adding additional baggage to everything. External optical drives are just yet another thing to carry, to be honest.
