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[razorBlades]

eh, there is no thread about laptops

so starting one!

just ordered the below one!

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HP Pavilion dv7t Quad Edition customizable Notebook PC                

• • Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
  
• • 2nd generation Intel® Quad Core™ i7-2630QM (2.0  GHz, 6MB L3 Cache) w/Turbo Boost up to 2.9 GHz
  
• • 1GB GDDR5 Radeon™ HD 6770M Graphics [HDMI, VGA]
  
• • FREE Upgrade to 6GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
  
• • FREE Upgrade to 750GB 5400RPM Hard Drive with HP  ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
  
• • No Additional Office Software
  
• • FREE Upgrade to Norton Internet Security™ 2011 - 15  Month Subscription (activation required)
  
• • 9-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery (over-sized) - Up to 9.5  hours of battery life +++
  
• • 17.3" diagonal HD+ HP BrightView LED Display (1600 x  900)
  
• • FREE Upgrade to Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD  burner
  
• • HP TrueVision HD Webcam with Integrated Digital  Microphone and HP SimplePass Fingerprint Reader
  
• • Intel 802.11b/g/n WLAN and Bluetooth®
  
• • Standard Keyboard
  
• • HP Home & Home Office Store in-box envelope

what do you guys think?

[rahul_rn]

finally out of motoroids server snag's so replying now..

and nice specs man.. but check out the specs i am ordering from US..
here's its link.. http://www.sonystyle...552921644692000

btw just check the price.. its in $.. to convert to INR multiply by 45..

[Silver Phantom]

razorBlades said:

eh, there is no thread about laptops

so starting one!

just ordered the below one!

what do you guys think?

I think it is Fabulous. Although whats the Price, and the quintessential Question "Kitna Deti Hai???"


Where did you get this monster from??? if you can dish out the model number, maybe i can scope it out too.

[avinrichards]

Silver Phantom said:

I think it is Fabulous. Although whats the Price, and the quintessential Question "Kitna Deti Hai???"


Where did you get this monster from??? if you can dish out the model number, maybe i can scope it out too.

Seriously! @Razor! Yowzaa!!

thats one mean machine! Kitna ?

[razorBlades]

rahul_rn said:

finally out of motoroids server snag's so replying now..

and nice specs man.. but check out the specs i am ordering from US..
here's its link.. http://www.sonystyle...552921644692000

btw just check the price.. its in $.. to convert to INR multiply by 45..

The limitations in this one for its price,

its not a sandycore processor (2nd gen) which is the latest!
its a very old graphic card and its only 512!
does not have blue ray
900p hd display is good

my suggestion, if you are not bent on buying a sony get a dell xps!

check this page for deals and coupons

http://www.techbarga...earch.cfm/0_3_1

I wanted to get a dell XPS 17 with 3D, but ran out of time.. these guys take like 25-30 days to build and ship the laptop and i am coming back to mumbai in another 22 days so could not buy it!

this one
http://www.techbarga...Item.cfm/248437

Silver Phantom said:

I think it is Fabulous. Although whats the Price, and the quintessential Question "Kitna Deti Hai???"


Where did you get this monster from??? if you can dish out the model number, maybe i can scope it out too.

have attached the specs and the price for you man! got a good deal like $400 off!

avinrichards said:

Seriously! @Razor! Yowzaa!!

thats one mean machine! Kitna ?

its around 47k man.. stupid new york tax and shipping blew it up!

http://motoroids.com...=1&d=1301663138

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[rahul_rn]

buddy its sandy bridge not sandycore.. its an Accelerated Processing Unit(APU which is a combination of CPU+GPU)
and if you ask me i would rather go in for a normal CPU then a APU..

i will get better clock speeds there as well as more cache(although i was hoping that i could get AMD fusion, which is similar to sandy bridge but better according to me:D).. having a seperate CPU and GPU is better i.e. atleast for now as the APU still has a long way to go..

and the laptop there is totally customizable(as you can see) i just gave the base model..
and ya i am inclined towards sony, have seen many other branded laptops crumble just couple of months after their warranty was over..

[avinrichards]

i just got one my self Dell one.. cost about the same. Compared to yours I feel I got a Luna while you got a R15!

Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop specifications :

Processor:Intel Core i5-430M Processor
Operating System:Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
RAM:4GB DDR3 RAM
Graphics card:ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470,1GB dedicated memory
Display : 15.6-inch LED,1366 x 768 pixels ,16:9 aspect ratio
Hard drive:500GB SATA 5400rpm
Optical disk drive:DVD Reader/writer
Memory card reader:7-in-1 media card reader
USB:4 x USB 2.0 ports (including eSATA/USB combo port)
Ethernet port
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth
HDMI/VGA
Built-in microphone
Built-in stereo speakers (2 x 2W)
Webcam VGA
Battery - 6-cell lithium-ion battery
Weight:Approx 2.7 kg

Plus got a 3 year extended warranty for no extra price!

[rahul_rn]

^^^^^
that's not bad.. people actually don't know one fact that they may have a good config system but there are no applications that make use of it..
nor is there an OS that makes use of the full potential.. Windows7 barely makes use of 2 cores properly and only 64bit OS can address just 4GB ram..
its like having a veyron and putting in normal fuel and trying to rip it on Indian roads..
so that's not a bad specd machine after all..

people tend to think that the more the number of cores/threads/clock cycles the better, its true but to very less extend as the hardware has made a giant leap and software is still crawling..

[avinrichards]

^^True man ! rightly put.

The moment you put on a game or open a video to edit thats when you really want some core's backing you up

[rahul_rn]

well then again you dont need that much as well..
my current pc config is AMD phenom X2(dual core) 2GB ram..
and i am currently playing crysis2.. a game that literally cries for specs..
mine's running fine most of the time(with minimalistic settings ofcourse)
it would do wonders if it jus had another 2GB ram and a discerete graphics..

people tend to use up settings they don't actually need i.e. higher res, brightness and some other stupid settings..
if you come to see you don't actually need them.. human eyes(just like human ears) have a natural defect.. that is they cannot make out a difference after a certain point ex: a song has a bit rate of 128kbps as well as 384kbps.. but we hear the same thing..
same thing about eyes.. nothing above 24fps will make sense and nor will higher res..

[razorBlades]

rahul_rn said:

buddy its sandy bridge not sandycore.. its an Accelerated Processing Unit(APU which is a combination of CPU+GPU)
and if you ask me i would rather go in for a normal CPU then a APU..

I know what an APU is.. my mistake on the sandycore, actually there was a biker name sandycorebiker, i guess i just cant forget him for some reason

rahul_rn said:

i will get better clock speeds there as well as more cache(although i was hoping that i could get AMD fusion, which is similar to sandy bridge but better according to me:D).. having a seperate CPU and GPU is better i.e. atleast for now as the APU still has a long way to go..

and the laptop there is totally customizable(as you can see) i just gave the base model..
and ya i am inclined towards sony, have seen many other branded laptops crumble just couple of months after their warranty was over..

These days graphic cards have become the main processing unit when compared to a super fast processor like i7.. so even with a core2duo with a better GPU card we can play most of the games even crysis, but only for now

try editing HD videos in core2duo and in a system which has i7, you will know the difference

avinrichards said:

i just got one my self Dell one.. cost about the same. Compared to yours I feel I got a Luna while you got a R15!

Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop specifications :

Processor:Intel Core i5-430M Processor
Operating System:Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium
RAM:4GB DDR3 RAM
Graphics card:ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470,1GB dedicated memory
Display : 15.6-inch LED,1366 x 768 pixels ,16:9 aspect ratio
Hard drive:500GB SATA 5400rpm
Optical disk drive:DVD Reader/writer
Memory card reader:7-in-1 media card reader
USB:4 x USB 2.0 ports (including eSATA/USB combo port)
Ethernet port
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth
HDMI/VGA
Built-in microphone
Built-in stereo speakers (2 x 2W)
Webcam    VGA
Battery    - 6-cell lithium-ion battery
Weight:Approx 2.7 kg

Plus got a 3 year extended warranty for no extra price!

this is an awesome config as well man.. i got a dell xps 15 for my bro for 51k which has almost similar config as yours

and extended 3 year warranty with no extra price, now that's some deal

rahul_rn said:

^^^^^
that's not bad.. people actually don't know one fact that they may have a good config system but there are no applications that make use of it..
nor is there an OS that makes use of the full potential.. Windows7 barely makes use of 2 cores properly and only 64bit OS can address just 4GB ram..
its like having a veyron and putting in normal fuel and trying to rip it on Indian roads..
so that's not a bad specd machine after all..

people tend to think that the more the number of cores/threads/clock cycles the better, its true but to very less extend as the hardware has made a giant leap and software is still crawling..

+1 very true indeed.

[rahul_rn]

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These days graphic cards have become the main processing unit when compared to a super fast processor like i7.. so even with a core2duo with a better GPU card we can play most of the games even crysis, but only for now

try editing HD videos in core2duo and in a system which has i7, you will know the difference

ya that's there but there are actually very less people who do video editing..
everyone tries to spec their system just for games..

an year or so back i had seen a guy do a project for railway worth 2lakhs just with an p3 processor..
he did not have any intentions to upgrade his system.. so this proves that one does not really need a system that fast.. unless he is a professional video editor..

[motionfreak]

yo gopy..cool machine yaar..
17.3"  that's huge..
this one is desktop replacement !!!

congrats...

BTW wise selection of CPU ie sandy

[razorBlades]

motionfreak said:

yo gopy..cool machine yaar..
17.3"  that's huge..
this one is desktop replacement !!!

congrats...

BTW wise selection of CPU ie sandy

thanks asish! after speaking to you only i decided on this. thanks man

badly wanted an alienware, probably my next one!

[rahul_rn]

^^^^
you could have got a decent specd alienware mx11 at the same price.. then why didn't you go for it..??