I don't expect it to outperform a desktop or even equal it. I just have
trouble with how under performing most average laptops are these days.
(Even WITH adequate RAM)
Well, you can buy a pretty fast "laptop" with a honking processor and
a better than average video subsystem. These are generically known
as "gaming laptops".
Problems are that they are heavy and they burn through a battery charge
in a very short period of time, typically about an hour.
Also they are expensive.
These are pretty much "desktop replacements" in actual fact.
If you keep them tethered to the wall they do fine, but that pretty much
kills the whole point of a portable computer, doesn't it?
Chip technology (die size) has to come down and battery technology
has to improve (very slow progress on this) before there will be a
revolution in laptop performance. Displays and memory also need to
become more efficient, power-wise.
For right now it's accepted that the more power efficient CPUs and
lesser graphics chips represent an acceptable compromise for laptops.
You have to trade off somewhere if you want an acceptable battery
life.
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