Well considered everything and an intel quad core is just way too much above my budget. I've ordered a HP Pavilion G6 i5-2450M 2.5 GHz / AMD HD 7450M 1Gb tonight at a webshop here in the Netherlands. I've got quite some vouchers at that store and they did have the Pavilion on sale. Seeing that i5 is much faster then the i3 and on top of that the sale price I didn't hesitate and ordered it. If all goes well it should arrive at Tuesday. Now the big switch from Window XP 32bit to Windows 7 64bit will come, I'm a bit nervous for that one.

I know I'm still staying at 2 cores, but the Cinebench marks show that this is at least double as fast in rendering the my current one. I couldn't find much 3DMax rendering test, but I figured that Cinebench will work just as well. Having the AMD HD 7450M in it, instead of a HD6xxxx as most within my budget have is a big plus for me as well.

Once it has arrived and I'm playing with it, I'll let you know my thoughts. Thansk everyone for your input, I do appreciate that!

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Food for thought.....
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