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    Probably going to pull the trigger soon on an NP5165

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by LLStarks, Jul 30, 2011.

  1. LLStarks

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    2630qm, 4gb, 500gb, intel 6230, 1080p matte, ic diamond, etc...

    I don't want to regret spending a bit more money and buying this over the HP dv6z with the 6750m.

    Any reassurance or comforting would be deeply appreciated.
     
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    I'm feeling the same way with no word from HP yet, but I have until Aug 7 to decide or can keep using my dinosaur for now.

    My big questions:

    Is the heat problem bad with NP5165 or Clevo W150HR?
    Does the optional thermal compound help?
    With 1080p matte, bluray player, win7 pro, and i7, I get $1300 at most reseller configs. Anybody cheaper or plan on doing promotions soon? I need to get near $1100 to really pull the trigger.

    Or is there word of a new laptop under 6lbs? The 8xxx series coming in at 7 lbs is getting too heavy.
     
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    My goal is a performance Linux laptop without jumping up to the dedicated gaming tier.

    Optimus (Bumblebee works well enough) is pretty important to me.

    But I'm not sure how critical the 2630qm is over the 2410m/2520m.
     
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    The 2630 will give you a massive speed boost over the other two you mentioned as it's quad core versus dual core, but at the cost of battery life. The 2520 is more efficient, and the 2410 is a ULV part for high mobility machines.

    If you're not running a lot of heavily threaded CPU bound applications, a quad core may be overkill.

    Mobile Processors - Benchmarklist - Notebookcheck.net Tech

    If the third party optimus solution works well enough for you, then the only big negative for linux on these machines is moot.
     
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    Well, I'd rather have a sure thing for Linux than a crap-shoot with AMD's Optimus wanna-be.

    As for the 2630QM, I reckon I rather future-proof myself. Same reason I'm going 555M over 540M even if I don't plan to game much.

    Plus, 8 threads for compiling or mplayer2 sounds pretty sweet.
     
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    To be honest, the quad cores don't consume much more energy at idle than the dual cores. At load, yes there will be a significant difference, but idle, low power tasks it should do nearly as well as a dual core. Will post link if I can find. Think it was Tom's Hardware.
     
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