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    whats this i see....

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Diablo, Aug 5, 2008.

  1. Diablo

    Diablo Metalhead

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    Jakamo5 Tetra Vaal

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    I don't understand why Gateway chooses to introduce a new model in which it upgrades some stuff and downgrades/removes other stuff. I realize they're trying to keep the prices down, but it makes it so hard to choose a laptop.

    The P-7812j introduces a faster processor, a Blu-Ray drive, HDMI 1.3 (vs 1.2 you find with most laptops), Bluetooth 2.1 (vs 2.0)

    But then it removed a gig of ram? And up'd the hard drive to 320GB from 200 but lowers the RPMs from 7200 to 5400? And what if we don't want to pay for Blu-Ray (which btw will up the price ~$300 ladies and gentleman). And it gets rid of the fingerprint reader that was found in the 173's.

    Full specs here: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2008/GodzillaFX/1015785R/1015785Rsp2.shtml

    I'm also told that the "j" in the model name means this is being released in japan (only?)
     
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  3. dtwn

    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    http://jp.gateway.com/products/product.html?prod=P-6861jFX

    Does this help?

    Or this?

    http://opentechpress.jp/news/article.pl?sid=08/07/24/220200

    Look at suffix.

    I can't find the 7812J on Gateway JP yet though.
     
    dtwn, Aug 5, 2008
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  4. Quadzilla

    Quadzilla The eye is watching you

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    i think those are japanese models if i recall .
     
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    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    MCAP61 Notebook Consultant

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    Warloque Notebook Consultant

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    American has sucky proccesor.
     
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    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    It's also likely to be quite a fair bit more expensive. More importantly, the P8400 is a perfectly fine processor. Most users wouldn't see very much difference.
     
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    Warloque Notebook Consultant

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    Actually you will easily see it in games
    t9400 will perform much better,
    and give you significant fps boost
    especially with a lot of characters on the screen
    and in browsing internet, while switching between Graphic programs,
    and multi - tasking t9400 will be much faster.
     
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    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    To be honest, I can't be bothered arguing with you.

    So
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=218971&highlight=t9300+vs


    A summary below.

    As you can see, with the T5450 and the T9300, which are 1.67 Ghz 2mb l2 cache (Santa Rosa) versus 2.5 Ghz 6mb l2 cache (Penryn), the difference isn't significant for Crysis, and quite decent for WiC.

    NOW COMPARE THE T9400 TO THE P8400.

    2.26 Ghz 3mb L2 vs 2.53 Ghz 6mb l2 cache

    Since the 2 processors being compared now are much closer in performance; would there be a even smaller difference?

    YES.
     
    dtwn, Aug 5, 2008
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  11. KGann

    KGann NBR Themesong Writer

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    This Warloque kid is just ridiculous.

    And yes, that is the Japanese version. The American version has far from a "sucky CPU".
     
    KGann, Aug 5, 2008
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