C90S owners, how do you like your system for video editing or 3d programs?

Hi,
I am looking for a laptop and I was recommended the C90S.
I need to use it for programs like Premier, After Effects, Maya, 3D Studio max and such. even for latest games.

I personally like Asus because of the EEE Pc I bought recently. But I'm not sure about Asus' normal laptops.
How is the C90S? Do you recommend it and why? Pros and cons?
Thanks for your advices

 

Well it is great for this and its what i use mine for alot. Mainly because these task are very very cpu dependant when it comes to render speed. The c90s has the power of a full 2.93ghz desktop cpu easily destroying the power from any other laptop except the few other models around that also use desktop cpus' but the other options don't look as nice and cost alot more.

You have a mid/high end video card 8600gt, and 3gb of ram.

The ram is the only downfall the c90s now supports 4gb of ram to boot but it only uses up to about 3.2GB, for 95% or more people this is not an issue since to use more than 3gb of ram you need a 64bit OS in addition to the hardware, and most do not use 64bit.

So definitely the c90s is a prefect fit for what you want to do here, it was almost made for this kind of stuff.

 

although the c90 is old, it will fly through 3d rendering

 

hmmm... i'm an architect working here in the middle east, but still havent tried running 3d rendering with my c90. Have u tried this ?

 

The limit of a 32-bit operating system is

So definitely the c90s is a prefect fit for what you want to do here, it was almost made for this kind of stuff.[/QUOTE]

From a technical perspective, a 32-bit OS can address exactly 4GB of RAM on a byte basis. 2^32 is 4294967296. 4GB of RAM is 4294967296 bytes. The PC architecture is a limiting factor on the inability to use all of a 4GB system with a 32-bit OS. Running various *nix and accessing 4GB in 32-bit mode is not a problem on non-PC hardware, ie sparc, rs/6000, hp pa-risc for example.

If you have > 4GB and you're running a 64-bit Windows, you'll find that about the same amount of physical memory is "missing" from an 8GB system as is missing from a 4GB system.



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I think he meant it will fly through rendering relative to the mobile-CPU laptops.

Namely the fact that IO devices require a part of the span of addresses.

Uh... maybe there is another limitation at play, but with 64 bits one should be able to address not only 2 * 4GB, but 2^32 * 4GB, right?

 

With PC Architecture, BIOS etc still eats up a small portion of RAM. So it's 8GB - the PC Architecture footprint for an 8GB machine.

As for the address limits; it depends on the OS. The limits of a 64-bit system is more RAM than is likely installed on the planet earth: 17,179,869,184 GB of memory.

For perspective, if we assumed every computer on the planet had 1TB of memory, it would be 16,777,216 computers worth of memory.

I wouldn't be surprised to find there are that many computers, but we aren't at the 1TB mark per computer

 

Right, now I get your point. I thought you were saying that with 64 bits you are limited to 8GB (minus something due to IO).

On a sidenote, re 1TB of RAM being fantastic at this point. 1GB of RAM seemed equally fantastic at the time when computers only had 1MB standard It might happen...

 

E.B.E.:

I know it will happen. I have some massive machines with half a terabyte running many DB instances.

I booted my first machine with 1GB in 1996; and I know very well how things have progressed.

 

Woah, I think you guys are going way off topic!

OP, personally I am a web/graphic designer that deals with heavy applications on a daily basis including Flash CS3, Photoshop, Illustrator, as well as even Premiere(for online streaming videos). My C90S is quite a speed demon compared to most other laptops on the market, simply because of the desktop processor platform. I have 3GB memory, and in most cases I never use it all entirely even with those programs open.

So to answer your question, if the C90S is running perfectly stable, it can be a great workstation notebook / desktop alternative.

 

D3X:

That's the ebb and flow of conversation for you!