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If you are a business professional in need of a top performing laptop why would you use a gaming platform?

What the hey? Who and why? Be assured the Good Doctor Who is not involved with this segment.

Most every computer manufacturer has created a product line targeting hardcore video game addicts that demand arcade style action and quality graphics in a home video system, factoring in the availability of big screen TV and large screen computer monitors, all featuring HD quality and stereo sound systems that can match movie theaters.

The gaming computers and laptops are now the heavyweights both in terms of speed and price. They are almost without exception all four core processors, dual graphic cards, dual hard drives and much more.

Great Scuse Suzi! I meant Greta Scott. The business professional is saddled with second rate equipment, most of which is dual cores and the marketing pitch is that these

are the top of the line units in power, portability and slim design. It’s computers on Weight Watchers, if you follow this current trend.

Most business professionals do not see the need for four core laptops.

However some in the engineering profession rely on CAD systems coupled with science applications that crunch massive data to simulate physical 3D models and parametric arrays quantifying problems involving finite element stress analysis, fluid flow simulations inside pressurized networks at powerplants, refineries and many other commercial structures such as mid rise office buildings and an internal combustion engine’s fuel injectors four stroke cycle.

Other business professionals are modeling the behavior of financial derivatives markets (options, futures, ALM on a portfolio) or use graphics heavy desktop publishing software, such as Adobe Creative, and video editing and processing software are also in need of top performance on their laptops.

Most of the four cores are not designed to run these applications. It is not just a matter of hardware. You need an operating system that allows the cores to process data from the software programs in parallel, using threading and load balancing algorithms. The software publishers also need to design the product to interface with multiple cores. Otherwise you are most welcome in wasting your money on hardware.

Another problem that bothers many users of all laptops, consumers and business professionals alike, is the manner in which desktops and laptops are anemic on RAM memory.

Most of us do not replace our systems when the browser starts to stall, as we surf internet pages and websites, we run into pages where it takes forever for the page to load.

As a troubleshooting measure many purchase pre-packaged programs such as turbo boosters and computer tweekers that automatically and magically power up the speed - only this kind of tune-up works for a few.