gobbledonk Posted September 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Several industry mags are now openly pushing the option of downgrading to XP Pro for readers who are having problems with Vista. I have XP running under Vmware on the MBP, and its fine for most things - the key is to have enough RAM to be able to allocate a full GB to the virtual machine - apparently you need to allocate at least 1.5GB to Vista under Vmware : doesnt leave a whole lot on the average 2GB machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaronTT Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 I bought an Aspire 6935G about 3 weeks ago for about 70,000. Great machine for the price. 4GB DDR3 320GB HD Blu Ray T9400 2.53Ghz w/1066 Mhz Bus HDMI 16+ inch 1080p screen, 1920 x 1080 really built for multimedia Dolby 5.1 surround, etc NVidia 9600M GT video real nifty media control center built into the keyborad area e-sata connector special blue lights Windows Vista Ultimate Really a great machine, scores high in all benchmarks. No complaints. People that see it say 'wow!' I don't use it for gaming but play Blu Ray videos, sometimes. I use it mostly for financial modelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 Custom alienware: .Intel Core2 Extreme X9000 2.8GHz (6MB Cache 800MHz FSB) .Dual 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 9800M GT â?? SLI Enabled .500GB 5400 RPM SATA .2x Dual Layer Blu-ray Disc Writer .Intel Turbo Cache Memory 1GB .500GB 5,400RPM (8MB Cache) Smart Bay .Intel® High-Definition Audio (24-bit, 192Khz) surround sound .4GB Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz 7.1/5.1 Digital .High-Definition Audio (8 Channel) Two Speakers with SubWoofer .17â? Wide Screen WUXGA 1920 x 1200 with Clearview (1200p HDTV resolution support) Was used mainly for games and automated test applications. Now used for SQA applications and games on free time. I forgot: with windows xp pro of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaronTT Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 Is that for a laptop? Looks like desktop specs (eg NVidia SLI) for a machine a little behind the bleeding edge but the drive is quite slow. More like a laptop drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 Yes this is a laptop, was necessary fro crysis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soongmak Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 I always wondered why laptop drives are so slow. Is it technically not possible to bring it up to speed with desktops, or would it simply drain the battery too quickly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 RAM capacity and hard drive speed are the main factors. (plus the graphic card) My laptop is actually "faster" and more efficient for very demanding applications than maybe 95% of current desktops just because the components are among the best ones available. Which means that for an application like crysis I can run it on max spec with a better quality than most desktops. This said laptop are usually less efficient than their desktop counterparts (note that some companies use the same chips for both their laptops and desktops while some others use slightly less efficient chip for the laptops) note too that another factor is also the usual lack of L3cache on most laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted September 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 Guys, IMO the price/performance gap between desktops and laptops is so much narrower than it was 5 years ago, and I believe that this is reflected in the sales figures - laptops outsell desktops by 3:1 in Oz. For serious gamers, tho, there will never be any substitute for their desktop machine and a 24" LCD - thats just reality. For the rest of us, you can get 'desktop replacement' laptops which will perform at 85-90% of a really good consumer desktop for reasonable money. Specialised applications like gaming and heavy-duty graphic work are always going to mandate a big machine with plenty of room for expansion/cooling etc, and that's often something like a Mac Pro. I would argue that the majority of us simply wouldnt utilise that sort of grunt - happy to hear otherwise from those who have a non-gsaming app which demands 16GB of RAM, dual graphics cards and a dedicated RAID controller to look after your 2TB 'disk farm' :smirk: Gobble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted September 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 I bought an Aspire 6935G about 3 weeks ago for about 70,000. Great machine for the price. 4GB DDR3 320GB HD Blu Ray T9400 2.53Ghz w/1066 Mhz Bus HDMI 16+ inch 1080p screen, 1920 x 1080 really built for multimedia Dolby 5.1 surround, etc NVidia 9600M GT video real nifty media control center built into the keyborad area e-sata connector special blue lights Windows Vista Ultimate Hmmm, Baron, I think you have just proved what the guy at the retailer told me : Acer and Asus make most of the world's laptops. There are the specs for the HP dv7-1019tx, a machine which seems to be almost identical to yours and which now dominates my tiny abode: Processor type Intel® Centrino® processor technology � Intel® Core�2 Duo Processor T9400 � 2.53 GHz , Level 2 cache 6 MB, 1066 MHz Front Bus Speed � Intel® WiFi Link 5100 Operating system installed Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Standard memory 4096 MB DDR2 Memory layout (2 x 2048 MB) Maximum memory 8 GB Internal drives Internal hard disk drive 640 GB Hard disk controller SATA Hard Disk Drive Hard disk drive speed 5400 rpm Optical drive type Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD±R/RW Double Layer Memory card device Integrated 5-in-1 digital memory reader slot (xD, SD, MMC, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO) Network interface Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN Wireless capability Bluetooth® wireless networking External I/O ports 4 USB 2.0 (4th shared with eSATA port), 1 eSATA Combo, 1 VGA port, 1 HDMI connector, 1 IEEE 1394, 1 RJ-11 Modem connector, 1 RJ-45 Ethernet connector, 2 Stereo Headphone jacks, 1 Microphone jack, Consumer IR, AC Adaptor, Integrated Fingerprint reader Video capture interface IEEE 1394 FireWire® Interface Expansion slots One ExpressCard/54 slot (also supports ExpressCard/34) Display size 17.0�WXGA+ High-Definition Brightview Infinity Display Display resolution 1440 x 900 Video adapter NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Video RAM 512 MB dedicated memory TV tuner HP Integrated DVB-T/Analog TV Tuner Remote control HP Mobile Remote Control Speakers and microphone Altec Lansing® speakers Webcam HP Pavilion WebCam with Integrated Microphone Couldnt find too much in the way of reviews on this model (HP market about a billion variants of the dv7, so its tough trying to compare one with another), but I'll post my impressions after a sport of F.E.A.R. tonight Gobble F.E.A.R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palatkik Posted September 27, 2008 Report Share Posted September 27, 2008 I bought an Aspire 6935G about 3 weeks ago for about 70,000. Great machine for the price.special blue lights Ok I'll bite. WTF are the special blue lights for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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