The Laptop Thread: Configs, deals & questions

devarshi84 · 11th January 2006, 04:51

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Originally Posted by Sam Kapasi

OK chalo, someones coming from the USA - my ferrari's coming on the 2nd of feb YAYAYAYAY!!!!

congrats on your ferrari. Is it 4002 or 4005?

I would recommend 4002 and upping it( the extra price for 4005 is not justified)

but then there is a different charm of having a fully loaded laptop

ajmat · 11th January 2006, 09:38

Considered the new Centrino Duo?

tsk1979 · 11th January 2006, 09:57

In business winstone benchmark(With M$ access/word etc.,) it fared worse than the Pentium M.
the reason is the 40% L2 cache latency increase. Infact pentium M persorms equalt to AMD X2 64 4200+ processor.
Only place it will shine is multithreaded applications. Looks like duo barely matches or outperforms older processors from competition. Which is real real bad news for Yonah!

jkdas · 11th January 2006, 11:14

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Originally Posted by ajmat

Considered the new Centrino Duo?

It was launched last day right? I thought it would be atleast jun or so when we can see on on our market.

And duo processors will work better if thsoe get application taht are written for it. P4 duo flopped and it even didnt perform on par with a P4.

Sam Kapasi · 11th January 2006, 11:16

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Originally Posted by devarshi84

congrats on your ferrari. Is it 4002 or 4005?

I would recommend 4002 and upping it( the extra price for 4005 is not justified)

but then there is a different charm of having a fully loaded laptop

Ofcourse it's the 4005 hee hee hee. And I've upped the RAM to 2GB. Overkill?? I think so! YAYAYAYAYAY!

Sam Kapasi · 11th January 2006, 11:17

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Originally Posted by tsk1979

In business winstone benchmark(With M$ access/word etc.,) it fared worse than the Pentium M.
the reason is the 40% L2 cache latency increase. Infact pentium M persorms equalt to AMD X2 64 4200+ processor.
Only place it will shine is multithreaded applications. Looks like duo barely matches or outperforms older processors from competition. Which is real real bad news for Yonah!

Holy Cow! I didn't understand one bloody word! And who's yonah?

Steeroid · 11th January 2006, 11:51

Well Sam

Congrats on your new Ferrari!

Have fun!

Sam Kapasi · 11th January 2006, 12:10

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Originally Posted by Steeroid

Well Sam

Congrats on your new Ferrari!

Have fun!

Thanks steer for all the advice. I would have decided on the S58 - but this processor business made the decision.

Now I've got a Ferrari Laptop Yay!

tsk1979 · 11th January 2006, 12:35

Yonah is the new processor from intel, the Dual core centrino - Duo, which means Dual core. But its not lived upto the expectations, being marginally better than the Turion(One which is in ferrari). So its a case of 1 year old processor being a competition to a newly launched one, which is not a good thing for intel

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As jkdas has saidm unless applications are build to use the dual core, even your ordinary pentium M will beat this new processor. Congrats on your ferrari though. Its coming in Feb right? Make sure you pump up the volume when you start it. Vroooooom is the sound it makes!

navin · 11th January 2006, 22:40

hey guys i hear apple india is having a sale.

tsk1979 · 11th January 2006, 23:02

Thats coz Apple has abandoned PowerPC architechture and come out with macbook based in x86 arch. So old PowerPC based powerbooks are going on sale. Its like and engine change

Dippy · 12th January 2006, 00:32

Guys

Just got delivery of my new Thinkpad R51 centrino

It rocks. Thank you everyone who helped me in making my choice

Cheers

devarshi84 · 12th January 2006, 05:16

congrats man. what was the final price?

devarshi84 · 12th January 2006, 05:25

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Originally Posted by Sam Kapasi

Ofcourse it's the 4005 hee hee hee. And I've upped the RAM to 2GB. Overkill?? I think so! YAYAYAYAYAY!

yeah it is. my athlon 4000+ 1gig notebooks is also overkill for me man.

but be asssured that your laptop will kick other lappie's *ss

ambylimo · 12th January 2006, 06:51

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Originally Posted by Dippy

Guys

Just got delivery of my new Thinkpad R51 centrino

It rocks. Thank you everyone who helped me in making my choice

Cheers

great news buddy...congrats...how much did u pay?? centrino is pretty standard n relaible stuff....good choice ...

11th January 2006, 09:38	#287
ajmat Team-BHP Support Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Bangalore Posts: 15,191 Thanked: 31,299 Times View My Garage	Considered the new Centrino Duo?
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tsk1979 Team-BHP Support Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 23,695 Thanked: 23,484 Times View My Garage	In business winstone benchmark(With M$ access/word etc.,) it fared worse than the Pentium M. the reason is the 40% L2 cache latency increase. Infact pentium M persorms equalt to AMD X2 64 4200+ processor. Only place it will shine is multithreaded applications. Looks like duo barely matches or outperforms older processors from competition. Which is real real bad news for Yonah!
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Steeroid Senior - BHPian Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: N.A Posts: 7,026 Thanked: 2,757 Times	Well Sam Congrats on your new Ferrari! Have fun!
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11th January 2006, 12:35	#294
tsk1979 Team-BHP Support Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 23,695 Thanked: 23,484 Times View My Garage	Yonah is the new processor from intel, the Dual core centrino - Duo, which means Dual core. But its not lived upto the expectations, being marginally better than the Turion(One which is in ferrari). So its a case of 1 year old processor being a competition to a newly launched one, which is not a good thing for intel . As jkdas has saidm unless applications are build to use the dual core, even your ordinary pentium M will beat this new processor. Congrats on your ferrari though. Its coming in Feb right? Make sure you pump up the volume when you start it. Vroooooom is the sound it makes!
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navin Team-BHP Support Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Mumbai Posts: 25,410 Thanked: 9,957 Times	hey guys i hear apple india is having a sale.
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tsk1979 Team-BHP Support Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 23,695 Thanked: 23,484 Times View My Garage	Thats coz Apple has abandoned PowerPC architechture and come out with macbook based in x86 arch. So old PowerPC based powerbooks are going on sale. Its like and engine change
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Dippy Senior - BHPian Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Mumbai, India Posts: 7,751 Thanked: 4,197 Times	Guys Just got delivery of my new Thinkpad R51 centrino It rocks. Thank you everyone who helped me in making my choice Cheers
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devarshi84 Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Ahmedabad - Tor Posts: 4,024 Thanked: 213 Times View My Garage	congrats man. what was the final price?
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