Hello list. Can anybody please help me with my decision to purchase a Notebook. After reading the previous messages i am a bit puzzled .I was planning to go for Dell Inspiron duo core Laptop which comes for a fair price i.e 799$ regarding these Duo Cores How are the CPU's any reviews or personal experience? i have seen various websites giving good reviews but it would be great if some one who has used it can guide me though. Also that gees without saying that these laptops should be LINUX compatable.Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
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Sometime on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 03:21:36PM +0530, PenguinPuPPy said:
to go for Dell Inspiron duo core Laptop which comes for a fair price i.e 799$ regarding these Duo Cores How are the CPU's any reviews or personal experience? i have seen various websites giving good reviews but it would be great if some one who has used it can guide me though. Also that gees without saying that these laptops should be LINUX compatable.Any help will be appreciated.
Higher end IBM/Apple notebooks just work like a charm with most gnu/linux distributions. However you must note than internal modems in most of these notebooks will give you issues.
Anurag
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:33, Anurag wrote:
gnu/linux distributions. However you must note than internal modems in most of these notebooks will give you issues.
I dont think the owners of higher end laptops would care about connecting to the internet with that sucky software internal modem. I personally dont own a high end laptop but I preferred to convert the switch in my house to a wifi router when I purchased the laptop. If I have the money I would replace the network cards with wifi ones but you dont get good network cards compatible with Linux. I am really repenting purchasing netgear wg311v2 card :(
My friend, cut through all this crap and go for the Dell dual core deal. At the moment looking at the price vs quality point of view this deal is the best. Sony, Toshiba, Lennovo are all expensive.
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On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:51, PenguinPuPPy wrote:
Hello list. Can anybody please help me with my decision to purchase a Notebook. After reading the previous messages i am a bit puzzled .I was planning to go for Dell Inspiron duo core Laptop which comes for a fair price i.e 799$ regarding these Duo Cores How are the CPU's any reviews or personal experience? i have seen various websites giving good reviews but it would be great if some one who has used it can guide me though. Also that gees without saying that these laptops should be LINUX compatable.Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
I own a Dell Inspiron. I can vouch for their quality. Its excellent build. Their support is good and it actually works. Once I asked their support engineer for some info and I he "bluffed". I hate people bluffing technical specs so I rated them low when I got an email for my feedback. In about 2 days time I received a call from their Bangalore office asking me why I had rated them low. The guy not only provided me the specs that I had asked for but also took down a detailed complaint of my problem.
As for the performance of Core Duos. Well there is only one word for them ROCKING!!! They kick the hell out of any other Mobile processor in the market. AMD is nowhere near beating the Core Duo ( sorry AMD fans ). The Core Duo runs much _much_ cooler than any processor in the Intel family ( > Pentium 3 ). I think at max load it requires 125W, about 4 Watts more than a single core Pentium-m. It also has cool new features like deeper sleep states reducing power requirements even further and it beats Intel's own top of the line desktop processors P4EE 965. Imagine a mobile processor beating a desktop? :O It also almost beats the AMD64 4800+ X2 ( running at 2.4GHz if I am not mistaken ) while running at only 1.83GHz. So I guess Intel too knows how to play the "performance" game. It gives better performance per clock than the AMD ones. But the core duo is known to be weak in multimedia but that wont be a problem if you use binaries optimized for SSE3 which it supports ( you are going to run Linux after all, aren't you? ).
Linux compatibility? Well dude, you gotta understand that however good the distro is, some hardware may always give you some problems. Some of them might be fixable while others may not be. I recommend that you get tech specs of 2-3 books that you want to buy and google for them. Dont just get the model numbers of the books as Dell has a bad habit to give different hardware under the same model number in different parts of the world. Get the revision numbers as well if possible. Also go in for a book which gives you Intel PRO 2200 wifi cards and not Dell's own wifi cards. I am a Fedora guy but I highly recommend installing Gentoo on this baby if you are positively getting one :D.
One question, where are you buying this book? In India or outside? $799 sounds an awfully good deal even in Indian rupees :)
On 4/20/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
One question, where are you buying this book? In India or outside? $799 sounds an awfully good deal even in Indian rupees :)
does it make a difference whether its bought in india or abroad ?? i mean, quality wise ? price-wise, i guess its a tiny bit cheaper.
curious, Ananth
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 15:59, Ananth A wrote:
On 4/20/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
One question, where are you buying this book? In India or outside? $799 sounds an awfully good deal even in Indian rupees :)
does it make a difference whether its bought in india or abroad ?? i mean, quality wise ? price-wise, i guess its a tiny bit cheaper.
My dad bought an Inspiron notebook for $1450 in India which was costing about $800-1000 in the US at that time.
Go figure :)
On Thursday 20 April 2006 02:17 AM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:51, PenguinPuPPy wrote:
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them ROCKING!!! They kick the hell out of any other Mobile processor in the market. AMD is nowhere near beating the Core Duo ( sorry AMD
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AMD may launch Turion 64 X2 Dual Core 64-bit Mobile Processors on 9th may [1].
[1] http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2831
On Monday 24 April 2006 08:56, Hardik Dalwadi wrote:
AMD may launch Turion 64 X2 Dual Core 64-bit Mobile Processors on 9th may [1].
And your point was?
Turion doesn't have _any_ advantage over the Pentium-M architecture except that its a 64bit processor which doesn't necessarily make it a faster processor. It definitely doesn't beat the Pentium-M on power savings either. And truthfully it doesn't matter to a desktop / notebook user whether his processor is 32-bit or 64-bit. I neither want nor can I afford hundreds and thousands of Gigabytes of RAM :). Besides that 64-bit drivers are hard to come by ;)
On 24/04/06 17:50 +0000, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Monday 24 April 2006 08:56, Hardik Dalwadi wrote:
AMD may launch Turion 64 X2 Dual Core 64-bit Mobile Processors on 9th may [1].
And your point was?
Turion doesn't have _any_ advantage over the Pentium-M architecture except that its a 64bit processor which doesn't necessarily make it a
64 bits with more registers than the core duo, afaik. It might not be good for you, but for those of us who are a little bit more interested in CPU performance than graphics, 64bitness is good.
Devdas Bhagat
On Monday 24 April 2006 13:44, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
64 bits with more registers than the core duo, afaik. It might not be good for you, but for those of us who are a little bit more interested in CPU performance than graphics, 64bitness is good.
umm...you'll be surprised to know that the graphics performance of Core Duo is not good as compared to the pentium-M lest the software is optimized for SSE3 instructions. Ofcourse everyone has their own needs AMD 64bit CPUs have more registers, more bandwidth, basically more of everything. But 64 bit doesn't necessarily mean that it supercedes the 32bit performance infact the Core Duo squarely beats all _desktop_ AMD64 X2 processors except AMD64 4800+ X2. It comes very close and actually beats it in some tests but not all. More over it draws lesser power and runs cooler. For a mobile processor, it's pretty amazing I must say.
I dont mean to hurt anybodys feelings here but I am very firmly in the Intel camp and I am happy that finally they have put out a product which does justice to the engineers over at intel.
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