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    L2005 or V2335us

    Discussion in 'HP' started by sp44, Jul 26, 2005.

  1. sp44

    sp44 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Looking at both of these. L2005 from Sam's Club or the V2335 from CompUSA. Anybody notice that Sam's has an $80 3yr warranty and CompUSA has a $220 2yr warranty? That's crazy. I like the 2005 for the 5400 hard drive but I'm thinking the V2335 Centrino will have more power over the L2005 Turion. Anybody have any experiences with these two.
     
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  2. Rahul

    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    I wouldn't trust CompUSA's warranty, I've heard plenty of horror stories about their warranty service and how sometimes they don't even honor it. Be careful of them.
     
    Rahul, Jul 26, 2005
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    asiaimran Notebook Guru

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    I own L2000 but thinking of returning soon.
    My complain is the heat/warmth factor.
    Turion 1.6GHz runs around 51-55 degC
    with harddisk around 50degC. This is at 800MHz. I wonder
    what will be the temp if it's running at 1.6GHz for 10 mins.
    A portable heater?

    I've a replacement harddisk on order for over a week with no
    update. When I called tech support to find out what's going on,
    they didn't know. Excellent!

    If you don't mind left side of notebook getting warm and
    fan kicking in, go for it. It has the advantage of 64bit
    processor (ready for microsoft longhorn next year).
    I'm no inTel fan... even with centrino low power solution,
    you can run into noisy/hot notebook if motherboard design
    is badly done. Like gateway's 15.4" notebook...It's awful
    in heat mgt.

    My 2 cents.

    Imran
     
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  4. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    Buy the L2000. The GPU is a few times faster, it's 64-bit capable, 5400RPM HDs are a very noticible improvement over 4200's... battery life will be a bit better on the Intel notebook, but the big wildcard is which HD brand HP decided to use in your particular notebook. If it's a Samsung or Toshiba, battery life is going to take a hit. If you're lucky it'll be a Hitachi or Seagate. If you're the type of person who likes to do a clean OS install when he gets a new notebook, you've got a good excuse to swap in a nice Hitachi or Seagate 100GB+ 5400RPM drive and sell the stock drive on eBay. A disproportionate number of AMD notebooks have been getting the awful Samsungs but the Intel notebooks are not immune. Ideally you'd get the 12 cell battery for either notebook but that requires doing Configure-To-Order.

    The CPU fan kicks in at 55C and shuts off at 50C, ergo, your CPU temp will always be at least 50C after the notebook heats up. That's standard for all HP notebooks (AMD and Intel) that don't force the fan on all the time AFAIK.
     
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  5. sp44

    sp44 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I think I'm going to get the L2000. Sam's also has an unbelievable return policy. 6 months!
     
    sp44, Jul 26, 2005
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    tom_handheld Notebook Consultant

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    asiaimran,

    Which GW model did you refer to? I'm thinking to get a GW 6518GZ (w/15.4", centrino), which is on sale at BB this week.
     
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  7. asiaimran

    asiaimran Notebook Guru

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    Hi,

    I'm referring to GW 460X. I ordered online from gateway.com.

    It has 15.4" display, about 6lbs wt.

    I returned it due to this issue. Check it out first at bestbuy.

    Imran
     
    asiaimran, Jul 26, 2005
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