Advice me on recent zv6302us Sale on Hp shopping

Dear guys,

Lately Hp is making a sale on HP Pavilion zv6302us Notebook. The spec seems to be great with 100 HDD, 512RAM, n bright view option. But I am suspicious that they're not being frank about the GPU. I want to get the stand alone 128MB GPU and not the shared 32MB GPU. On their link they say it's a shared 128MB GPU... What do u think guys?

I mean what the heck, that zv6000 line is pretty powerful, with the same old low 1280*800 brightview res. Cheaper though, please advice me on this. I really appreciate it....

tyvm,
Monkey

 

The 128MB GPU means 128MB of dedicated memory with the option of configuring an additional 128MB of shared memory for 256MB total ("Hypermemory" in ATI marketing-speak). Most of the time you'll want to stick with the default no-shared configuration. The GPU is too weak for serious gaming but fine for everything else. zv6000's are heavy, that's the biggest downside. The dv5000z/R5000z series has replaced it, same capability in a much lighter and more power-efficient package. If HP gives you a good deal on the zv6000 and you don't mind the extra weight...?

 

zv6000 series are powerful machines and run cool too. I have one and am very happy with it. DTR, however. IMO, take the fastest CPU available. I love the Turion in l2000 but the Athlon64 3500+ just feels mighty.

 

A Turion ML40 (2.2GHz 1MB L2) is a bit better than an Athlon 64 3500+ (2.2GHz 512KB L2) in the zv6000, since HP didn't enable dual channel memory support in the zv6000 series so they're single-channel like the Turions. A top-of-the-line A64 4000+ would be equivalent to a Turion ML44 that you can only get in the dv8000z series right now.