Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:07 PM
Tamir Khason
Choosing new notebook
Hi, Community Brain. It’s time for me to change my old good Dell Latitude D820. I need performant machine and following the results of my findings. It’s really important for me to know your opinion about those choices. Also, if you have additional choices, I’d be happy to hear about it.
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Dell Precision M6300 |
HP 8710W |
Lenovo T61p |
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| Processor |
Intel® Core 2 Duo T9500 (2.6GHz, 6Mb, L2 cache, 800MHz FSB) |
Intel® Core 2 Duo T9500 (2.6GHz, 6Mb, L2 cache, 800MHz FSB) |
Intel® Core 2 Duo T9500 (2.6GHz, 6Mb, L2 cache, 800MHz FSB) |
| Memory |
4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x2048) |
4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x2048) |
4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x2048) |
| Video Card |
NVidia® Quadro® FX 3600M (512MB dedicated) |
NVidia® Quadro® FX 3600M (512MB dedicated) |
NVidia® Quadro® FX 570M (256MB dedicated) |
| Hard Drive |
200GB SATA (7,200RPM) + fall sensor |
200GB SATA (7,200RPM) |
200GB SATA (7,200RPM) + disk encryption |
| Optical device |
8X DVD +/- RW |
8X DVD +/- RW Blue-ray |
8X DVD +/- RW |
| Modem |
56.6k v.92 |
56.6k v.92 |
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| Wireless Networking |
Intel PROWireless 4965 802.11 a/g/Draft-n |
Intel® Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n |
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN |
| Bluetooth |
Dell Wireless 360 |
Intel Bluetooth |
Integrated Bluetooth PAN |
| Primary battery |
9 Cell Li-Ion (80 Whr) |
9 Cell Li-Ion w/XPP 3 yr warranty |
9 cell Li-Ion Battery |
| LCD |
17” WUXGA (1920x1200) UltraSharp + anti-glare |
17” WUXGA+WVA (1920x1200) anti-glare |
15.4” WSXGA+ (1920x1200) |
| Weight |
8.5 lbs/3.8 kg |
7.4 lbs/3.4 kg |
7.3 lbs / 3.3 kg |
| Dimensions |
1.6”(H) x 15.5”(W) x 11.3”(D) |
1.3”(H) x 15.4”(W) x 10.8”(D) |
1.4”(H) x 14.1”(W) x 10.4”(D) |
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| Cons |
I saw Precision series in work – performance is not good enough for such configuration (for comparison, my old Latitude with the same hardware configuration worked much better) |
Everyone I asked, tell me, that HP machines are not reliable enough |
Keyboard layout is absolutely awful. It impossible to work with Fn and Ctrl swapped.
Graphic card is not strong enough
It’s 15.4” |
| Pros |
It is very reliable |
Very good performance
Much lighter
Good battery life |
Absolutely reliable
Great performance
Outstanding battery life |
What to do? What to choose? Please advice!
Thank you
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