Did some more research for you, I was unsure what a "NVIDIA GT35M" is because... well, there is no such thing. I think it was a misprint, because there is a GTS350M coming out right now. The gts350m = gts250m but a die shrink (so runs cooler) but no performance increase:
Quote:
The architecture is the same as the 200M Series, but with the GeForce 300M series we were able to take advantage of advances in the manufacturing process to create new GPUs with the improved performance, in some cases as much as 25% more, and reduced power consumption.
Just like corresponding GeForce 200M-series offerings, these new products all have 40-nm graphics chips with support for DirectX 10.1 extensions. 300M-series GPUs should just perform better—almost all of them have higher gigaFLOPS ratings than their predecessors, according to the spec sheets on Nvidia's site. We say almost, because Nvidia quotes the exact same numbers for the GeForce GTS 350M and GeForce GTS 250M. In this particular case, the statement above suggests power consumption may have gone down.
(source:
http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/18303 ).
There is also a chance that its is a GT card, not a GTS, so it
could be even weaker, but I will go with "best case."
So with that knowledge, we can compare this to a desktop card:
Mobile:
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=98&pgno=7Desktop:
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=88&pgno=7Here is the card's performance numbers
GTS250M = 16000mt/s and 51.2mb/s
And here are some desktop cards:
$100:
GT240 = 17600mt/s and 54.4mb/s
$120
GTS250 = 47000mt/s and 70mb/s <-- value win
Also, the laptop gives no hint to the CPU speed that it runs, but just FYI, the fastest mobile Core2Duo is a 2.8 (the one in my work laptop).
So given that knowledge, I would you could spend (roughly)
$100 case + psu
$100 board
$120 video card
$75 Hard drive
$100 4gb RAM
$200 Quad core Phenom II 3.4ghz
$~$50 MISC (DVD burner, fans, etc)
= Under $800 shipped for a computer that I would easily say is 2x more powerful (video card and processor) than that laptop. You would have to track down a copy of windows (which is very easy).
Now, you could also spend about $100 less and get something to match that laptop, but why not spend the extra bit, and get 2x the power? If you are serious about getting a new computer, and don't want to build it yourself, I am in the process of starting a new computer company, and would be happy to build one for you anytime.
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