RaderCad
06-10-2008, 02:46 PM
Well we went out and ordered the NP9262.
It was confirmed this morning.
The specs.
Warranty: 3 Year Labor* 1 Year Parts Warranty
- Operating System: ~Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit Installed
- AC Adapter: Full Range Auto Switching AC Adaptor
- Battery: Smart Li-ion Battery (12 Cell)
- Case: Basic Black Business Case - Incl
- Sound Card: Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio
- Camera: Built in 2.0 Megapixel Camera
- Wireless Network: Built-in Intel® PRO/Wireless 496 a/g/n
- Bluetooth: Internal Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR
- Memory Card Reader: Internal 7-in-1 Card Reader (MS/
- Raid: HDD Raid Settings - OFF
- Secondary Hard Drive: ~ 160GB 5400RPM (Serial-ATA 150)
- Primary Hard Drive: ~ 250GB 5400RPM (Serial-ATA 150)
- Optical Drive: ~Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +
- Exterior Finish: Standard Finish
- Ram: ~ 4,096MB DDR2 800 (2 SODIMMS) D
- Video Card: 512MB PCI-Express nVidia GeForce M8800 GTX
- Processor: ~Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz w
- Dead Pixel Policy: Standard Dead Pixel Policy
- Arctic Silver: Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
- Display: 17" WUXGA "Glare Type" Super Clear
end specs.
Ok some of you may wonder about some of our choices.
We did a lot of research to get where we are now, notice we are at XoticPC, and here are our decisions.
The CPU: Not much software out there at this time supports multi-cores. Some video rendering programs and a couple of games, not much else. The dual core CPU will actually beat out the Quads in over 80 percent of the software tests due to a higher clock speed. Also 65 watts vs 95 watts is a consideration.
The two slower hard drives.
There is not much of a difference between the 7200 rpm drives and the 5400 drives laptop drives. Maybe as much as 10 percent as tested in real life. And the heat factor is a lot better for the drives that are below 320 GB, and below 7200 rpm.
As far as not going to raid? That is a question I am still asking myself, two 5400 rpm drives would be a lot faster than one 7200. However, when a VISTA update crashed this little lappy, three days ago, we were thankful that we had Kubuntu installed on another partition so we could rescue the data on the Vista partition prior to re-installing Vista. We lost no important data and I saved all of my wife's 17.8 GB of pictures. Because of this I became a HERO with her. So the smaller drive will have a new install of Kubuntu.
One GPU vs SLI: Lets face it since I want to play all the games I missed in the last five plus years I won't get around to playing the ones that can benefit from SLI until the next series of GPU's come out. LOL
It was confirmed this morning.
The specs.
Warranty: 3 Year Labor* 1 Year Parts Warranty
- Operating System: ~Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit Installed
- AC Adapter: Full Range Auto Switching AC Adaptor
- Battery: Smart Li-ion Battery (12 Cell)
- Case: Basic Black Business Case - Incl
- Sound Card: Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio
- Camera: Built in 2.0 Megapixel Camera
- Wireless Network: Built-in Intel® PRO/Wireless 496 a/g/n
- Bluetooth: Internal Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR
- Memory Card Reader: Internal 7-in-1 Card Reader (MS/
- Raid: HDD Raid Settings - OFF
- Secondary Hard Drive: ~ 160GB 5400RPM (Serial-ATA 150)
- Primary Hard Drive: ~ 250GB 5400RPM (Serial-ATA 150)
- Optical Drive: ~Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +
- Exterior Finish: Standard Finish
- Ram: ~ 4,096MB DDR2 800 (2 SODIMMS) D
- Video Card: 512MB PCI-Express nVidia GeForce M8800 GTX
- Processor: ~Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz w
- Dead Pixel Policy: Standard Dead Pixel Policy
- Arctic Silver: Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
- Display: 17" WUXGA "Glare Type" Super Clear
end specs.
Ok some of you may wonder about some of our choices.
We did a lot of research to get where we are now, notice we are at XoticPC, and here are our decisions.
The CPU: Not much software out there at this time supports multi-cores. Some video rendering programs and a couple of games, not much else. The dual core CPU will actually beat out the Quads in over 80 percent of the software tests due to a higher clock speed. Also 65 watts vs 95 watts is a consideration.
The two slower hard drives.
There is not much of a difference between the 7200 rpm drives and the 5400 drives laptop drives. Maybe as much as 10 percent as tested in real life. And the heat factor is a lot better for the drives that are below 320 GB, and below 7200 rpm.
As far as not going to raid? That is a question I am still asking myself, two 5400 rpm drives would be a lot faster than one 7200. However, when a VISTA update crashed this little lappy, three days ago, we were thankful that we had Kubuntu installed on another partition so we could rescue the data on the Vista partition prior to re-installing Vista. We lost no important data and I saved all of my wife's 17.8 GB of pictures. Because of this I became a HERO with her. So the smaller drive will have a new install of Kubuntu.
One GPU vs SLI: Lets face it since I want to play all the games I missed in the last five plus years I won't get around to playing the ones that can benefit from SLI until the next series of GPU's come out. LOL