What dictates the best "Performance"

<p>What dictates the best performance are the standards you have. If you know what you want your computer to be able to do then you can aim for something that will fit those needs.</p>

<p>The things you listed that you want your computer to be able to do are very generic and won’t help with finding a laptop to fulfill them. What would you be using the graphics card for? Games? and for running multiple processes it really depends on what you plan to run. If it is just Word, Internet browser, and a music program pretty much any modern processor should be able to fill your needs.</p>