please , help me to choose my next hp laptop

i posted this in what notebook should i buy but no one replied

hello , i have a HP dv5 1135 , i bought it almost almost 2 years ago .

now i am thinking about giving it to my sister and buy a dv6 3170 .

now to be honest , after i bought my laptop i did not search nor follow any laptops and video cards reviews and news , so i need some advices please.

first of all , the 9600m GT in my notebook was not so bad , yet i was kind of disappointed , i expected a little more out of it .

my problem was with windows vista , i did format my laptop and install xp based on a guide i saw in this forum . all in all , xp was better for me than vista but it was not really stable .

i would appreciate it if u guys can answer the following points



1-first of all what do u think about windows 7 , in general . i am an electrical engineer , i have to work with autocad most of the time but honestly i love games and want a windows that allow me to play without problems.

by the way this laptop comes with windows 7 premium 64 bits , is there any points where the 32 version might be better ? like if autocad don't work with 64 but works with 32.

and if u happen to know , is there any softwares that allow me to save my license in case i want to format? because a software like this one existed for vista and was good , i live in lebanon and cant imagine myself going through the online applications and phone services in order to certify my license.

i expect to format my computer and install a fresh windows 7 version to get rid of the bloatware and i need to keep my license of course . in the end i paid for this license , right?



2- the hd 5650 , what do u think about it ? my first target game is gta 4 . some people said that gta 4 is also about the processor , but this laptop have a quad core so that shouldn't be a problem.

does this video card have a future regarding any future games? really , i don't want to expect a nice video card , and then suddenly discover that it's not that good .

and another point , how about the drivers for this video card ? when i bought my laptop with the 9600m gt the performance was bad , only to discover later that it came with bad drivers and i had to download 130 mb of drivers at 8 kb/s in order to have a good performance . does HD 5650 always post new good drivers like nvidia does? and does anyone know if the original drivers for the hd 5650 are any good? i don't want to mess a lot with drivers because honestly i did mess with my 9600m gt and it never felt like the same before , i wont be using any softwares to overclock my video card so i just need a card that is good as it is and doesn't need any dangerous tricks.



3-the weight , this laptop have a 15.6 inch screen , and i want to game and have a portable laptop so i think it's fine for me . my current laptop have a 15.4 screen and i already think it's big enough. (that's one of the reasons i prefer this laptop)

4- is there any catch i should know about ? i paid 1350$ for my old laptop , and now this one , that seems (from it specifications) a great great laptop is only for 1165 .

5- i have noticed in the price list of the store i know that many laptops have this HD 5650 , yet some state that it's up to 2.8 GB and other say that it's up to 3.8 ...... is it the processor that makes the difference?

6- any idea about the battery ? in 20 months my HP battery was almost all dead , and now i need to plug all the time . really disappointing ....

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