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hishopper
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Anyone with expertise in laptops please comment!!
After 14 months of fighting almost daily with a Dell Inspiron I have finally convinced Dell to reclaim their hunkajunk, at a depreciated refund, of course. Why? Too many problems to list, but ultimately the worst was digital artifacts due to IRQ sharing, which XP pro restricts access to. If it were just that, I would of course purchase Win2k Pro and live happily ever after, but alas the tale of woe is much more woefull than that...
So I'm buying a new laptop - please advise! There are no benchmarks available to the public (that I've found) that will even begin to paint a comparison picture of laptop performance... I've heard that the Pentium M 1.2ghz outperforms a 2.2ghz P4. And of course any AMD / Athalon is .2 to .4ghz better than a comperable classic P4.. but there are so many options, and none look that great for someone who lacks the savy to decipher such ratings. I don't even know what a Mobile P4 is, but I know it's not a Pentium M... and the Athalon XP-M.. how can you compare this stuff?
Which is the fastest? Can the "speedstepping" (or whatever they call it) inherant to the P-M be turned off in the BIOS if the laptop is on AC power?
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hishopper
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| Posted - Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:38 pm |
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Also, anyone had experience with Sager?
Powernotebooks appears to have a good reputation among gamers, and made an interesting case for the 2.8 or 3ghz P4 over the P-M...
http://www.powernotebooks.com/P4_Truth.php3
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jester700
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| Posted - Wed Aug 06, 2003 5:25 am |
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The new M variant is faster per clock (depending on the program, of course), but not as fast as some say. Tom's hardware did a comparison; you might want to search for it.
I'm happy with my Inspiron 8000, but I'm running Win2k and don't do demanding audio stuff in real time.
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