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    Let There Be Quad

    Discussion in 'Notebook and Tech Bargains' started by TravisBean, Jul 4, 2009.

  1. TravisBean

    TravisBean Notebook Evangelist

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  2. Vedya

    Vedya There Is No Substitute...

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    There is a gateway out there for the same price with a GTX 260...

    But I think both will have overheating problems.
     
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    Vedya There Is No Substitute...

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    Oops , my Mistake :eek:
     
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  5. TravisBean

    TravisBean Notebook Evangelist

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    I think it's quite amazing to be able to offer this type of technology at these prices. Especially when I had read articles (about a year ago) saying that quad core in a laptop, for the average consumer, was a long ways off.
     
    TravisBean, Jul 4, 2009
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  6. avanish11

    avanish11 Panda! ^_^

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    Lol even a year ago, Sager made laptops with the Q6600 in them :p
     
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  7. TravisBean

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    Yea, but the quad core option alone, was the entire price of the HP. (lol :p )

    Edit: This is also the first time I've seen a quad core laptop on display anywhere (off the shelf-not custom order), and as such is worth taking note of.
     
    TravisBean, Jul 4, 2009
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  8. Han Bao Quan

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    That's a desktop CPU packed in a thick and fat mobile shell.
    This is a mobile quad-core, different story.
     
    Han Bao Quan, Jul 4, 2009
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    WOW! GTX 260M, 6GB DDR2. I'm curious though, is the memory tri-channel (3x2GB)? Or three slots of DDR2, and can you get dual-channel out of that?
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 4, 2009
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  10. brunoroc

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    no its 1x4gb and 1x2gb...
     
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    I'm surprised they didn't opt for a 320GB 7200RPM HDD instead of 500GB 5400RPM though.

    Dang, I'm tempted to sell my P-7811fx (and a few other things - thanks eBay) and go buy this one.
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 4, 2009
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  12. Red_Dragon

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    are you seriously considering it? Im also a 7811 owner but i cant give up this res man......that being said i have a vaio AR and the 1400 x 900 is perfectly livable.
     
    Red_Dragon, Jul 5, 2009
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  13. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    Not it's not, it's 3x2GB PC2-6400. I'm gonna bet that you get 2x2GB in dual channel and 1x2GB in single channel mode with that, I don't think Montevina has triple channel support (to answer htwingnut's question).
     
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    If these bozos had any sense they would have quad core 32 bit chips for around the same price as dual core 64 bit chips. Give me a dual core running linux they figured out how to use multiple processsors decades before microsoft.
     
    cosmic ac, Jul 24, 2009
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  15. cosmic ac

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    Also you can speed up your system cheaper using a solid state drive.
     
    cosmic ac, Jul 24, 2009
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    The more I've looked, the less I'm considering. It seems the 9800m GTS isn't much less performance than 260m.
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 26, 2009
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