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    320G SATA drives - when?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Walter_S, Oct 4, 2007.

  1. Walter_S

    Walter_S Notebook Geek

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    I've been bouncing back and forth wondering which notebook to buy and last night went back to the Dell site to check out what the 1520 Inspiron costs these days. A few months ago I was checking it out and it was a less expensive alternative to the Asus machines with the T7500 and 8600M GT, but I was reading about some noise problems and delivery dates were at least a month out so I lost interest.

    Last night I configured a system there and I see that default choice for drives on the 1520 Inspiron is a 320G drive. (in fact it is the only choice.) Price is still a couple hundred less than the best deal I'm seeing on a G1S and the ship dates are not a month out anymore. I have no idea whether they've fixed the noise problem and I forget what other problems and complaints I saw about the Dell when I was reading dell threads a few minutes so I'm not sure whether I will buy Dell instead of Asus but I'm wondering when the 320G drives will start showing up in the Asus line?
     
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    Cancer777 Notebook Evangelist

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    Just for starters the dell gpu has gddr2 memory and the g1s has gddr3 so g1s is a whole lot better at games...
     
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    Walter_S Notebook Geek

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    Yes, there are other issues that make the value comparison between the Inspiron 1520 and a G1S or V1S maybe lean toward the Asus, but what I'm really asking is when will we see a 320G hard drive in the Asus machines? Will they quietly just roll it in to the present models or will this happen with brand new models?
     
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    eugenes Notebook Evangelist

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    That's interesting. I didn't know Toshiba's 320GB drives are already available.

    I would guess it's going to take a while before Asus starts incorporting 320GB drives. They're not even selling systems with 250GB drives yet.
     
    eugenes, Oct 4, 2007
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