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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

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

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.

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.

i dont know about that.

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

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

acer 8104

hmmmmm, acer huh, gonna check that out

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

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.

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.

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.

::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.

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