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phileysmiley
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Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:37 pm |
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Thoughts?
ASUS M50 Series M50Sa-X1
Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5G
15.4" Wide XGA
4GB Memory DDR2
250GB HDD
DVD Super Multi
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Video Memory 1024MB
Here is a comparison between that and 2 lower priced ones:
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EXTREMEoverclocker
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Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:48 pm |
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what do you want to do with your laptop?
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phileysmiley
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Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:58 pm |
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| EXTREMEoverclocker wrote: |
| what do you want to do with your laptop? |
I mostly surf the net, do photo and movie editing, play music and movies, download and upload large files.
One issue I have right now is that my CPU and memory maxes out whenever I do any intensive graphics applications. That's probably the most memory and CPU-intensive thing I do. I'm not a gamer.
I'm already maxed out at 2G RAM.
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freebird9
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Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:51 pm |
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That ASUS M50Sa-x1 is quite a nice choice.
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phileysmiley
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Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:14 pm |
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| freebird9 wrote: |
| That ASUS M50Sa-x1 is quite a nice choice. |
Thanks! I just sort of picked it at random from NewEgg's laptop builder. I tried to stick with the most popular specs. I don't really want less then 4G memory and 250G HDD. Other than that, dedicated graphics was important, as well as DVD Multi and no less than 15" widescreen (that's what I have now). Those were easy for me to decide on.
The specs I'm less familiar with and more flexible about are the graphics and processor. I haven't really been keeping up with all the CPU and GPU advances lately (especially on laptops) so that's the one thing I don't know as much about. So I just picked what they had as the most popular ones. I'm flexible on those, though.
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phileysmiley
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Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:04 pm |
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Here are my CPU and GPU/VPU choices:
AMD Turion 64 X2 (1)
Intel Core 2 Duo (9)
goes with following dedicated graphics:
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 (1)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 (1)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 (1)
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS (2)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (3)
NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS (1)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS (1)
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AMD Mobile Athlon 64 X2 (1)
AMD Turion 64 X2 (4)
AMD Turion X2 (1)
Intel Core 2 Duo (7)
Intel Pentium dual-core (2)
goes with following dedicated graphics:
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 (1)
ATI Radeon X1200 IGP (2)
ATI Radeon X1270 (1)
Intel GMA950 (1)
Intel GMA X3100 (3)
Intel GMA X4500 (1)
Intel GMA 4500MHD(4)
NVIDIA GeForce 7000M(1)
NVIDIA GeForce 7150M(1)
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