PC Guuruuooos Whats the Fastest Laptop Cpu/ Mem. i can get?

::mic-minimal:: · Post by **::mic-minimal::** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:35 pm

and I'm looking for small and light so I guess i'm talking about centrinos, what is the fastest centrino I can get meaning cpu I should be looking for.
trying to max out the cpu, the ram and the hard drive on my next purchase

thanks

::mic-minimal:: · Post by **::mic-minimal::** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:41 pm

looking at toshibas website I saw this spec, is this the best spec I can get?

Intel® Pentium® M Processor 735 (1.70GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 400MHz FSB

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:44 pm

fastest would be 2.1ghz (770)
but the price difference over 2.0ghz (760) is quite large usually $250 or so, much larger than the performance diff.

memory, if you can get DDR2 533mhz do it!
i think newegg has a couple notebooks with these specs for around $2,000. 15.4" widescreens about 6.5 lb's.

::mic-minimal:: · Post by **::mic-minimal::** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:18 pm

thanks Adam, nother Q though, is it possible for that cpu you posted to be put in one of those laptops under 4 pounds,even under 3. I've got a 2.8 pound 900mhz centrino now and I really love this weight class.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:49 pm

i dont know about that.

sorry.... i went the 12" powerbook route for thin and light.

MrYellow · Post by **MrYellow** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:25 am

Muskin, Corsair and others like OCZ memory far out performs normal stuff.

But....

At US$800 a gig for top-shelf Muskin.....
It'll quickly become the most expensive thing in your computer.

-Ben

toto le robot · Post by **toto le robot** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:31 pm

acer 8104

::mic-minimal:: · Post by **::mic-minimal::** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:43 am

hmmmmm, acer huh, gonna check that out

AndrewDuke · Post by **AndrewDuke** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:55 pm

i got the impression that centrinos were more for checking email and light stuff as opposed to playing with audio. i'd advise against specifically going for a light (weight wise) laptop as it will be less robust and if you're gigging you want something that isn't going to be flimsy. my toshiba satellite p10 is heavy as hell, but it makes me more comfortable that it is going to maintain its structural integrity longer than a thin laptop. my previous laptop was a compaq presario and was a total piece of crap. when i played with mitchell akiyama and tomas jirku they were both using thinkpads that kicked the compaq's ass! my .02 cdn. andrew

jer_mcclain · Post by **jer_mcclain** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:28 pm

Centrinos work fine. Check out the Live Perfomance Test thread and that will give you an idea of how various processors stack up against one another.

toto le robot · Post by **toto le robot** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:08 pm

mine does very well in term of computing power. I mainly use reaktor, and with the blue matrix on snapshot jam jarre, @44.1kHz I get 10,1% don't know with live as I just install it but didn't start to use it. with reaktor centrinos are better than the other cpu, due to floating point calculation to be better with these. that's what expert said on the native forum.

before I had a titanium 667 and it is ten times powerful.don't know if it is solid, but I'm not doing gig.mainly for home use and at friend's home.

ilia · Post by **ilia** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:15 am

AndrewDuke wrote:i got the impression that centrinos were more for checking email and light stuff as opposed to playing with audio.

not true. check out the Live performamce thread.

ilia · Post by **ilia** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:21 am

::mic-minimal:: wrote:hmmmmm, acer huh, gonna check that out

mine is an older Acer Aspire, and while I really love this laptop in terms of ergonomics and screen quality, it took me about three months to get it to work in a stable way with audio at low latency. This is due to some hardware stuff that acer built in for their proprietary "multimedia" features. I literally had to experiment with every soundcard out there and search all over the net for months for solutions. But if I had to, I'd probably do it all over again, because I haven't seen another laptop in the price range that comes close.

Hopefully, they have resolved those issues by now.

AndrewDuke · Post by **AndrewDuke** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 1:55 am

paraclude wrote:Centrinos work fine. Check out the Live Perfomance Test thread and that will give you an idea of how various processors stack up against one another.

Great to have that personal myth dispelled. Thanks for the tip. Take care. Andrew