Toshiba (A100 vs. P10)

hello all.....i know many of you own toshiba laptops and have had experience with various ones.

I used to have a p10-ee1 which i recently traded up for a a100-ta7.
i just need some help to compare these and need others views on if i made a right choice (keeping in mind that portability is not an issue, weight etc.)

here are the specs:

a100-ta7
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=1&product=5611&part=5750#spectop

and p10-ee1
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en&section=1&group=223&product=2391

what i also would like to know is that would the p10 (with ati9700 64mb 8xagp) be able to support the aero interface in vista (min reqirements is 128mb)?

 

Out of the two notebooks, the A100 is the better one. It is much newer, and so utilises the Core 2 Duo processor, which is a faster and more effiecient processor than the Pentium 4, and its also dual core But the P10 does have a faster graphics processor, which may come in handy if you want to play games. Although it isn't all that fast, the Mobility 9700 will be faster than the GMA 950 included in the A100. Both notebooks should be able to run Aero, provided they have enough RAM. 1 GB is the recommended amount for Vista to run smoothly.

 

crap maybe i shouldnt have sold it then....i loved that laptop....alothough the charger was broken (still worked) and it typed by itself sometimes.

i guess it doesnt matter.....although the p4 seemed to respond quciker initially (when i opened up an app it opened faster on the pentium 4) but longer operations such as burning a dvd/cd and installing a program seem to be faster on the core 2 duo. (but then it has 2gb ram instead of my 768mb which i had in the p10).

the p10 prob would have still performed better if i had 2bg ram in that, No?

 

It probably would have sped it up quite a bit. 2GB of ram is massive compared to 768MB.

I have the A100-VA1 with the ATi Radeon Xpress 200m and I can vouch that it is a fast little computer. Mind you, I was use to a Pentium III 650MHz lol

 

It depend alot of the task that the processor has to do. For example, in encoding, the Core 2 Duo would perform alot faster, but thats because of its effiecient architecture. In other tasks, where other aspects of the notebook limits it, like the amount of RAM, it may perform slower. However, if all things were equal, the Core 2 Duo would perform faster in processor dependant tasks.