Which HP DV8000T or DV8000z

I am going with the HP 8000 series. Which 1 do you guys think is better. I am also wondering why HP didnt use the sata drives on the amd version or at least the 5400 rpm 100gb drives. Its like there trying to slow it down?

I will be using it for work and home.

I be multitasking at work with word processing, excel, power point ect.
Home will be gaming, Tv, online gaming, surfing the web with other programs running ect.

Here is the 2 setups im choosing from:

1) HP DV8000T
Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Media Center Edition
Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo processor T2500 (2.0 GHz)
17.0" WSXGA+ BrightView Wide Viewing (1680x1050)
128MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7400
2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024MB)
200 GB 5400 RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (100 GB x 2)
LightScribe 8x DVD+/-RW&CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network w/Bluetooth
HP ExpressCard Analog TV Tuner w/remote control
8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
Earbud Headphones with In-Line Volume Control

2) HP DV8000Z
Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Media Center Edition
AMD Turion(TM) 64 ML-44 (2.4GHz/1MB L2 Cache)
17.0" WSXGA+ BrightView Wide Viewing (1680x1050)
2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024MB)
200 GB 4200 RPM Dual Hard Drive (100 GB x 2)
LightScribe 8x DVD+/-RW&CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network w/Bluetooth
HP ExpressCard Analog TV Tuner w/remote control
8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
Earbud Headphones with In-Line Volume Control

Thanks for any input Allen

 

Fill out the FAQ in the sticky so that we can better understand your needs. As for the gaming comment, it depends on your needs. For heavier gaming, it's definitely the DV8000t. Otherwise, less intense games could run fine on the DV8000z. As for your HDD comment: I guess either A) It's because the AMD version came out first or B) They're doing their usual thing of giving AMD crappy stuff, like the graphics.

Also, you might want to stick with 512MB of RAM and upgrading yourself. It's much cheaper. Do you even need 2GB of memory? Also, any traveling should mean that you shouldn't even consider a 17". It's simply too big and heavy.

 

Allen,

This post will be moved to the HP forum soon, but oh well . . .

The choice of IDE vs SATA is a function of the chipset. The new 945 Core Duo chipset [dv8000t] supports 4 SATA devices and only 2 IDE devices, need those two for the optical drive and PCMCIA. I don't know much about the AMD chipset, doubt it has any SATA ports. I'm sure SATA will show with the X2 Turion CPU.

As to drive speed, purely a HP configuration decision, price to value. BTW, since both dv8000's support 2 HDD's, why not 2 fast 80 GIG drives?

Make your choice based on the better graphics card for gaming, inasmuch as either CPU is overkill with an overkill edge to the Core Duo, based on your stated applications.

Hermit