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Hi techs

Whats the difference in operation of the following

• Mobile Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD With PC-Card [subtract $104.50]
• Mobile Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD With Express Card [subtract $104.50]
• NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M, 256MB With PC-Card add $0.00
• NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M, 256MB With Express Card [Included in Price]

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And

• 80GB SATA (5400RPM) Hard Drive [subtract $242.00]
• 120GB SATA (5400RPM) Hard Drive [subtract $204.60]
• Store more business critical information and sensitive data on a larger hard drive
• 160GB SATA (5400RPM) Hard Drive [subtract $188.10]
• 250GB SATA (5400RPM) Hard Drive [subtract $125.40]
• 80GB SATA (7200RPM) Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive [subtract $209.00]
• 160GB SATA (7200RPM) Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive [subtract $96.80]
• 250GB SATA (7200RPM) Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive [Included in Price]
• 64GB Solid State Disk SATA Hard Drive [add $1,652.20 or $17/week-1]
• 64GB Mobility Solid State Disk SATA Hard Drive [add $1,047.20 or $11/week-1]

And

• 2nd 120GB SATA (5400RPM) Hard Drive [add $525.80 or $6/week-1]
• 2nd 64GB Solid State Disk SATA Hard Drive [add $1,797.40 or $19/week-1]

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And


Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor P8400 [subtract $192.50]


Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor P8600 [Included in Price]


Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor P9500 [add $625.90 or $7/week-1]


Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T9400 [add $405.90 or $5/week-1]


Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T9600 [add $818.40 or $9/week-1]



Thanks Guys
Veday

 

where are you buying from, cause that site is a complete rip off

Buy the system with the cheapest harddrive option.
You can get a 320gb 7200rpm drive for around $70 any day of the week on the internet.
It looks like the 250gb 7200rpm drive you choose was an additional $242 over the cheapest drive.
Thats stupid, cause a 250gb 7200rpm drive is like $65

As far as the processor option, get the p8400. The performance difference between the p8400 and p8600 is hardly noticeable, and is not worth an extra $200.

K-TRON

 

thanks K-tron, Above configuration is from Dell website, Australia
http://configure.ap.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=au&l=en&s=bsd&cs=aubsd1&kc=&oc=R721210AU


I m looking to build IT lab environment and not sure what configuration ..i go for..
Dont know.. should i go for T8400 or T9400 processor.. Is that gonna make huge impact on performance?
dont know.. getting 7200 RPM over 5400RPM.. Is noticable or impede performance?
dont know..the performnce difference between.. # NVIDIA Quadro 256MB With PC-Card or NVIDIA Quadro NVS 256MB With Express Card or should i go for 512MB card?
Is there any reason..someone should go for solid state drive rather than SATA?



Please advice

Thanks

 

hmm, youre in australia, that could explain those prices.
i do not know why they listed expresscard and pccard with the graphics card. They have nothing to do with the graphics card. If you want a expresscard slot get that option, if not, you can go with the pccard (memory card) option

Does the software you use, use 100% cpu power?
If it does than you will see greater performance with the faster processor.
if your software only uses like 50% cpu power than just get one of the cheaper processors and that will be fine
As far as the harddrive goes, the new 7200rpm drives are very powerefficient, about as power efficient as the 5400rpm ones, so you do not loose very much battery life from going to the higher speed drive.
SSD's are very expensive, and rather small in capacity. SSD's are faster at loading files than conventional mechanical harddrives.

K-TRON

 

P8400 : 2.26HGz / 1066MHz FSB / 3MB L2 Cache / 25W TDP / 45nm design
T9400 : 2.53GHz / 1066MHz FSB / 6MB L2 Cache / 35W TDP / 45nm design
The difference between those two processors will only be visible in high CPU intensive tasks. For general computing they will perform almost the same. Higher TDP (Thermal Design Power) rating of the T9400 means it will require more power (less battery time) and produce more heat, again differences may not be significant.

Expresscard and PC-Card are two different expansion card formats : the small slot located on the side of the notebook to plug in add-on cards like modems, TV tuners, external sound cards etc. Express card is the newer standard between the two. However, as K-Tron pointed out they have nothing to do with the graphics option, maybe they are listed together because the graphics card and expantion card can have a direct impact on the chassis or motherboard design. As for the amount of graphics memory I don’t see a 512MB option there, you can only chose between Intel X4500HD Integrated (graphics processing unit is integrated in to the chipset of the motherboard and it uses shared system RAM, therefore performance is slow) or the nvidia NVS 160M (has a dedicated graphics chip and memory, faster than X4500HD, Quadro cards are epically optimized for Open GL, better for CAD and other 3D design applications)

For the hard disk do as K-Tron suggested.

 

Thanks guys.. now i got some understanding... Do you think investing on XPS is wise? XPS looks cool by its design. HP dv5 too... I need to really think now.. what i am after.. thanks
what configuration you guys have created for yourself if you were buying one for similar purpose.

 

You only said an IT lab, but in what kind of an environment ? High school, College/University, research institute ?

And what kind of activities are carried out in the lab ? Entry level general programming (like Java, C++, .Net etc..) , CPU intensive scientific simulations or number crunching for science experiments, 3D graphic related applications ?

 

It would be for home personal purpose but i would be creating a sort of technical lab. I just started working in IT arena.. I would be running VMware through which couple of windows server 2003 , couple of workstations.. Microsoft memory intense applications like SCCM.. not for programming. Neither 3D stuff.. virtual servers and workstations will be constantly communicating... There would be multiple memory intensive applications would be running at the same time... Definetly..would require more hdd space and memory but not sure about how much should i spend on other components...

Thanks