Intel C2D SU7300

How well can this ultra-low-voltage processor handle Windows 7? Is there any noticeable lag while doing every-day task such as browsing, multi tasking, using photoshop etc.?

I know it will be slower for rendering videos and stuff like that but is there really a big difference in every-day tasks between this puppy and some monster desktop quad processor?

Thanks. This will help me decide whether or not to buy Asus UL30Vt.

 

A Su7300 is going to be more powerful than an Intel Atom. I can run Win 7 and do youtube fine with an Atom.

 

It will be noticably different than the big desktop beasts...lol But compared to a P8400, everyday tasks won't be very much different.. just the heavy stuff it'll strain with.

 

An Su7300 will do everyday tasks all right but for photoshop ur better off with a quad... the quad mobiles core i7 are have 45W TDP and do the job well... they're also very energy efficient shutting off cores when u don't need them... Your better off with a mobile quad than an Su7300 which isonly good for office work and nothing else...

 

And for gaming... Alienware M11x, don't forget.

 

I'm still thinking that if it were something better then the SU7300, the M11x would really shine as a small mobile gaming laptop.

 

This point has been debated a hundred times over in the Alienware forums. Bottom line is that it is what it is. And secondly if there was anything better it wouldn't meet thermal, power, battery life, and pricing requirements. Sure an i5 would be great in there, but it would have a significantly decreased battery life, higher thermals, and drive the price up a good $200 or more. If you look at comparable 14" laptops with an i5 they cost more, and none have anything as powerful at the GTX 335m GPU.

For gaming it already shines and is more than adequate. Plus it overclocks to approx 1.7GHz no problem. I don't know why people are so critical of an 11" laptop costing $800 to perform as well as a $1500 gaming 15". It performs considerably better than any machine 13" or smaller and most cost more money.

 

I'm sorry, the M11x does shine, the GTX 335m graphics are great for a notebook that size, and the SU7300 is not a bottleneck. Chill out.. I was just stating a personal opinion.

 

Not a bottleneck? Tell that to World Of Warcraft raiders who push even the highest end cpu's to the limit.
I'm also considering a laptop with the su7300, but before I decide between the m11x and the vaio Y, I wanna see how that 1.3 ghz cpu will handle Assassins creed 2. If it won't run that game I might aswell go for the Y, no point in having a good gpu if your cpu is worthless.

 

Well, that's the whole point though. If you really need a powerful CPU then the M11x isn't the laptop for you. It's great for 95% of the games already out there though. I don't play WoW but I'd be curious to see how well it actually performs.

I have done lots of benchmarking with games in netbooks. I was surprised with the results with an SU7300 and 4500MHD in the Acer 1410. In many cases you had to sacrifice resolution and detail, but it would still run. It was even better with the Neo X2 and HD 3200. The restricting factor was always the GPU.

I wouldn't call the SU7300 worthless either. The Sony Y series comes with an SU7300 too, so I'm not sure where you're coming from. The Y series won't be able to run most newer games reasonably. So even if it won't run one or two games well doesn't make it worthless. Plus don't forget this thing is designed to run at 1.7GHz, significant speed bump up from the stock 1.3GHz.

Ideally, I'd just like to see an SU7300 + ION. That would make for an affordable yet fairly well matched CPU and GPU. The Eee 1201N seems to fare quite well with games even though it only has an Atom CPU. Yes it's dual core, but that doesn't help its anemic processing power, yet it can play MW2 with 30+ FPS with the ION. The M11x has a CPU and GPU that are several times more powerful, so it can only be a marked improvement.

 

SU7300 is more than fast enough for every day Windows computing. I use a SU4100 as my desktop and it's fine for Office, Email and Internet. A faster CPU will not make my experience any faster. A faster hard drive does though.

It's only with CPU intensive stuff that you'll notice a lag.

 

... Or SSD

 

Yea, an SU7300 is very adequate for most use so don't listen to whoever tells you you can only do internet and office work with it...

I have P4s at work and I can do regular internet browsing and office work on that just fine so to say an SU7300 only does that is false.

The only things an SU7300 will have trouble with are processor heavy tasks and even then, lighter processing tasks like Photoshop or even light Matlab will still work fine; I know, I've done both on a Celeron M fine.

 

SSDs and HDDs are both hard drives in my vocabulary.

 

I am dying for a SSD but they seems to getting more not less expensive, the prices in the UK are crazy.

 

I want an SSD too! I saw a Lenovo X200 tabletPC at work last week with a freakin' 256Gb SSD, I just wanted to stick the whole thing in my backpack lol

 

Surprisingly to me, many SSDs in the US aren't (much) cheaper.

Amazon Intel G2 80GB $259 = € 190

Dutch shops: € 189

 

Thank yall very much... you pretty much confirmed my thoughts... I think this laptop will be enough for me


(I am also dreamin bout SSD... )

 

I like the whole idea of SSD too, but the price is just atrocious. Absolutely does not offset the performance improvement. I don't care if my computer boots in 11seconds over 30, or if my games take 40 seconds to load instead of 15. If it was a 10% price premium, sure I'd bite. but it's like a 500% price premium.

 

The booting isn't really that interesting imo, it's the instant reaction of programs and all actions in Windows that make the difference.

I tried the Intel G2 80GB for a week, it was amazing but in the end I decided to go for 500GB Hitachi 7K500.

 

I look at it as 15 second compared to 30 seconds is a 200% increase with the SSD over a 7K500. So for 400% the price or $440 for a 500GB SSD I'd bite. We are a ways away from that.

On topic a SU7300 with Turbo, as in the Asus Uxx-VT's, will run 1.73GHz and memory at the true DDR3 of 1066 MHz. This should be more than ample for most tasks...........

 

But aren't most open programs opened in RAM already? Or are you talking about loading programs.