Question about laptops.
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Do any of you fine people have the following in your laptop:
Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 (2.16 GHZ, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHZ FSB)
and a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX Video Card.
If you have either one how do you like them? I am going to be buying a new work laptop here this week and I was hoping someone was using the same or at least one of the items for some feedback.
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Hi Ron,
I have a Toshiba Satellite A-100 Centrino C2D 7400, Nvidia 7600GT GO 256, 120Gb HD and 1Gb ram. Is a general purpose notebook and works acceptable with SU5Pro and SU6 both installed and last update for su6 6.0.515 solved a problem with AntiAlias 4x in OpenGL and dimensioning (used to freeze both). I will add one more stick of memory(1Gb), because mine and most modern laptops, load many drivers at startup (Bluetooth, wireless etc)and with firewall enabled leave only 512 Mb Ram free. You can find some usefull informations at http://www.notebookcheck.net with comparisons of mobile cpu's and vga cards.
If you need best mobile performance for Cad and 3D, probably you have to look for nvidia quadro armed notebooks, but at much higher price level.
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Thank you George for the information. I will take another look. I also was looking at the nvidia quadro. All of the reviews seem to favor the 7950 GTX as for rendering. I plan on getting min.2GB of ram so I should be alright as for what the system will use of it.
Thanks
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If I were you I'd be asking about upgrade options on the laptop HDD, try to get a 7200 RPM model instead of the usual (think they are 5600 RPM) - it'll help a lot with saving time / loading time etc. I think the brand to ask for is Hitachi, but there are other manufacturers that make laptop HDD's of these speeds as well these days.
Moving this to gadget section.
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My poor opinion is to avoid 7200 RPM Hard Drive. I bought two years ago a 60gb HD 7200 in order to extend the life of an older Laptop. A small gain in performance was lost in batterie life (less 30%), noise and higher temperature.
This is the reason most manufacturers avoid using them. And generally all components at laptops work in lower level comparing with their desktop counterparts.
There are models with two hard drives, so you can configure them as Raid-0 (with all the drawbacks of Raid-0), for better performance.
I read once in AnandTech site, a comparison between HD with 7200rpm vs 5400. The performance of 7200 was not so great as it was expected. So current Hard Drive Technology is a great bottleneck for PC's performance.
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Thanks guys.
gksl4 that is what I was doing going for the storage more than going for the speed. I have a 7200RPM in my desktop.
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