Desktop to Laptop Migration

[jwonno]

So here is my intended purchase:

Chassis & Display
Optimus II: 15.6" Matte 95% Gamut LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-2670QM (2.20GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG 1333MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 2GB)
Graphics Card
nVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M - 2GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - Hard Disk
80GB INTEL® 320 SERIES SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 270MB/sR | 90MB/sW)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
SONY BC-5550H 4x BLURAY COMBO DRIVE & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE
Memory Card Reader
Internal 9 in 1 Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/SD: Mini, XC & HC/MS: Pro & Duo)
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack
Bluetooth & Wireless
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N130 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
USB Options
2 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Battery
Upgrade to 62.16WH 6 Cell Lithium-ION Battery
Power Lead & Adaptor
1 x UK Power Lead & 90W Adaptor (GT 540M) / 120W Adaptor (GT 555M)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit - inc DVD & Licence
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Laptop Cooling Stands
Zalman ZM-NC3000S Ultimate Cooler, 220mm fan, upto 17.3inch
Keyboard Language
INTEGRATED UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Notebook Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 1.3 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Insurance
1 Month Free Laptop Insurance inc. Accidental Damage & Theft
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 5 to 7 working days
Quantity
1

I currently own a Desktop running Window 7 Home Premium (32-bit) & Ubuntu 11.10 (32-bit), AMD Phenom 9850 (2.5GHz, quad-core), ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR3, two Western Digital 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 3G/bs (160GB system drive, 2TB media drive) with 4GB (2x2GB) Kingston HyperX Genesis 1066MHz DDR2 RAM.

Due to various reasons, I have decided my best option is to migrate my desktop to a laptop. How do you think the two compare? Improvement? Equal? Worse?

Background: will be used for watching movies, internet & office, playing games no less than a year old, plus occasional HD video encoding.

 

[Wozza63]

what do you mean by migrating

i strongly recommend you do not get 32-bit Windows its pretty outdated and only used if specific programs dont run on 64-bit, even though it has a compatibility mode

get the upgraded thermal paste too

and silver warranty for a fiver

you are probably gonna want a bigger HDD seeing as it can only take one HDD, i recommend a hybrid drive, they are still much quicker than a standard drive and not too expensive for a decent sized drive

 

[jwonno]

By migrating I mean moving everything I do on my desktop to doing it on a laptop.

Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit) is for program compatibility. Thermal Paste I missed. Silver Warranty already checked. I'm only using about 60-70GB of my Operating System drive, most of my media is on a separate 2TB HDD, which I'm gonna convert into an external / NAS drive so I'm going for the 120Gb Kingston HyperX SSD (ignore above).

Thanks for your suggestions though.

 

[Wozza63]

have you checked that the programs do not work in a compatibility mode or something?

 

[jwonno]

Yes, unfortunately for the moment, I have a few programs (and games) I use regularly which have little to no Windows 7 (64-bit) support / compatibility.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-7/en-us/default.aspx