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Dravis85
12-04-2005, 12:50 AM
I finally made my final decision and purchase what I hope will be a great laptop. I think it will be on a clevo chassis, which some of ya'll seem to be familiar with.
Here's the specs:
17" WSXGA+ LCD
2.26GHz Pen-M "Sonoma"
1Gb PC4200
100GB SATA150 5400 RPM
nVIDIA GeFORCE 7800 GTX 256MB
Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio
8X24X10X24 DVD/CDRW
Intel PRO/2915LAN 802.11 a/b/g
Bluetooth Wireless
All that for around 600$
mynameis
12-04-2005, 02:55 AM
All that for around 600$
What?
Where did you get this for $600? Buy 5 more and sell them on eBay for massive profit!
Dravis85
12-04-2005, 12:38 PM
woops sorry guys...I think i typo'ed...I meant 2600.
still a good price though
oh and what exactly is the "sonoma" chip..I think it's the predecessor to the dothan, but I'm not sure...it shouldn't effect performance, or will it?
OK, 2600 is a lot more reasonable.
Yes, the Sonoma is the latest P-M.
Be aware though that if you want to actually use the notebook on-the-go, the Sonoma has mediocre battery life in comparison to the old P-Ms.
My FS550 came with a Sonoma, and switching to a Dothan gave me 30% more battery life.
Hammerstein
12-04-2005, 02:06 PM
Yeah. Intel had heat and power draw issues on the i915M used for Sonoma. It's a shame, because it really is an ultra-modern conception and design (PCI-E, 533 MHz FSB, etc.)
Dravis85
12-04-2005, 09:17 PM
I spose I could have gone with an older dothan, but there isn't one that is above 2Ghz that I could find. I'm particularly worried about performance issues in my laptop when the next batch of games come out. With what I've got I should be set for a anything in the future.The battery drain isn't going to worry me cause I can get 2-3+ hours of on-time, and that's enough for me. I won't be putting the thing on my lap so I'm not worried about burning my pants.
Vengance_01
12-04-2005, 11:36 PM
OK, 2600 is a lot more reasonable.
Yes, the Sonoma is the latest P-M.
Be aware though that if you want to actually use the notebook on-the-go, the Sonoma has mediocre battery life in comparison to the old P-Ms.
My FS550 came with a Sonoma, and switching to a Dothan gave me 30% more battery life. hate to break it to you Sonoma is the name of the chipset. The 915, DDR2, and PCI-Ex16 lane for video cards. So how did you manage to switch that?? Dothan is the cpu, there are two revisions, 400FSB with 1 meg L2 cache, and newer 533FSB 2 meg L2 cache. Get your facts straight. both with the same watt usage.
Dravis85
12-05-2005, 12:20 PM
oops
hate to break it to you Sonoma is the name of the chipset. The 915, DDR2, and PCI-Ex16 lane for video cards. So how did you manage to switch that?? Dothan is the cpu, there are two revisions, 400FSB with 1 meg L2 cache, and newer 533FSB 2 meg L2 cache. Get your facts straight. both with the same watt usage.
You're right. I didn't get my terminology straight. Either way, I switched back to the previous gen of P-Ms, and my battery life went up quite a bit. I'll do some research on it to see if others have had similar results.