notebo.:ASUS Z92JE-AP016H or HP nx6325 (EY351ET)?T5500/TL-60

AngularMomentum · 20 Dec 2006

I'll wait for my girlfriend to come home, she knows a lot about the HP notebooks as she works on the HP helpdesk, she can check amount of the RMA requests and such...

I personally would say go for the ASUS one if I hear all the problems she encounters at work with HP products.

infuzion · 21 Dec 2006

AngularMomentum wrote: I personally would say go for the ASUS one if I hear all the problems she encounters at work with HP products.

On my Compaq Presario R3000, I somehow lost the drivers for my firewire drive after using it for a month. After 8 (EIGHT) hours via their customer support in India (including reloading ATI drivers for my nVidia mombo), I finally asked for a supervisor, who simply told me to refomat.

IMHO, consumer HP/Compaq is like what Emmerson was to TVs: cheap cheap cheap. I'll never buy anything HP again.

dasdeck · 21 Dec 2006

mmmhh. thnaks for your replys, but i'm not that interested in support, as i have the nerve to search the web for bugs and fixes. i'm more interested in raw performance.

D3CK

infuzion · 22 Dec 2006

& I fogot to mention that my Compaq's keyboard's keys tend to get stuck alot, it was shiped with a loose screw inside the DVD drawer area preventing it from opening propperly... My laptop has more issues other than poor support.

If you want to check stats. try www.TomsHardware.com www.notebookForums.com www.notebookReview.com

What I would look for is the fastest CPU you can afford, the largest screen you can carry, & video RAM, not "shared". Dual core is only good if/when your progams can take advantage of it. If you can, find a laptop with 1 1GB memory chip & a free slot.

dasdeck · 22 Dec 2006

mmhhh. .

i took this stuff into consideration. fastes cpu is what i'd like to know. i did not find reliable benchmarks or comparisons for mobile cpus. is amd x2 2.0 Ghz faster than a core 2 dual 1.66 ? although 2.o seems faster than 1.66, but his must not be valid this days.

i use energy xt, wich can distribute vsts over two cores, but i guess it will be hard to distribute one vst over two cores, so i want the notebook with the most capable core to have the posibility to play even the hungriest vst with big fat poly (SM made synth can be very hungry!) i took ram slot usage also into consideration. the asus one uses two slots (of two) for 1024, th hp only one, and one is blank, wich is an advantage. the hp seems to be the overall winner, but i've heard that AMDs are very hungry for battery power (although the maximal runtime is advertised as the same on both laptops) and the bad things you told me about hp notebooks. the hp notebook has a great display resolution. wich is very good when working with SM or eclipse or something. about video ram...can you explain why its imporant? i mean appart form the fact that it steels some of my main ram? i'll go 2 GB after a while i think, so what would id would hardly matter

regarding your links tomshardware : mobile cpus seems not to be listed. the others seem not to have benchmark lists

i've read in a forum that the asus Z#### series got issues too. although there isn't much to find about that notebook. it does not even have a product page on asus website 😮 .

cheers

D3CK

MyCo · 22 Dec 2006

Yesterday I've build a new PC for a friend. My old PC and my Clevo noteboook have a P4 3,2GHz. The new one has a Core 2 Duo E6600 (only 2,04 GHz)... but this Core 2 Duo is in CPU benchmarks 80% faster than the standard P4...

Don't know if it is a help, but I'd prefer a Core 2 Duo...

infuzion · 23 Dec 2006

I think Tom's has a sub-site that deals with mobile/laptops. Sorry I'd get the exact URL, but my internet connection is bad right now.

You know, aside from looking at benchmarks, asking others to run benchmakrs for you, or having both laptops side-by-side in front of you, one can't really tell which is better. AMD is fast & slower with different things comparied to Intel; look at my Optimiztion page in the WIKI for SSE examples. For you, I'd worry less about game performance, & more about mulitmeida, video encoding & LAME rendering, etc.

If you care about speed, you want the fewest things to use your main memory; that's why cache & seperate video memory is important. Less memory traffic = more efficient CPU can run. Another indicator is the buss & memory speed.