Design/developer apps and 9x0XM performance

Does anybody have experience with the G73JH on a 9x0XM and applications like VS2010 (or even 2008), Matlab, NX7 etc? Will upgrading from the 720QM to 9x0XM give a perceptible difference in applications such as these? Heck, if Matlab stops running like a dog with the 9x0XM, I'll consider it a "great" upgrade.

Thanks.

 

I've been developing multi-core and GPU-compute applications for university and the 720 has had no issues with VS 2010 or apps compiled with it (particularly if you use multi-core compilation). But I can't say anything about Matlab or NX7.

 

Out of curiosity are you talking about compile times or compute/execution times?

I would see an SSD giving superior performance in VS 2008/2010 during compile. A vanilla install of VS2010 takes forever to compile a simple program compared to 2008 and it's almost all hard drive speed. Not much experience with Matlab/NX7 either.

 

General execution/computation/calculation times really. I already have an SSD on my G73JH so I was wondering if upgrading to a 920/940 will help applications like VS2010 run faster or "smoother" is probably a better term. The "experience" I have with VS2010 right now is that it runs like a dog, compiles native apps like a camel and compiles mixed(managed/unmanaged) code like a turtle with one leg. Sorry, running out of analogies here

 

I see. I'd see how multithreaded your applications are and if you're burning through all 8 threads of a 720m then maybe it'd be worth it to you. I think I'm out of my range of expertise here, though. Best of luck!