this post is dedicated to every captive soul who has hard time choosing between 5660(beauty) and 8887(beast)
5660 will be an attacker here(as most of us like it more, and just can't order it because 8887 is more powerfull and it charms us)
ok let's begin, first of all 5660 is beautiful laptop, a state of art, 8887 has more options and is a little bit more powerfull than 5660, with CPU 3.06 GHz and with 128MB Video RAM, BUT!, i looked at the benchmarks at this forum and 2.8ghz 5660 didn't do a lot worser than 8887 it was something like 5660(2.8GHz) - 13000 and 8887(3.06GHz) - 14000, now that's not a big difference, a normal user(using programs not the utilities to measure the CPU Speed) wouldn't even notice the difference. About 128 MB Video, now tell me what can you start/play to eat whole 64 megs of memory?(that's the only difference beetwen this cards).
8887 has more PCMCIA(Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) slots(1 - Type III and 2 - Type II), there are 3 types of PCMCIA cards Type I(3.3mm) is used for memory, isn't 1024MB of RAM already enough in 5660? why do you need it? type III(10.5mm) is used for HDD(usually no more than 2GB) and 5660 has 60Gigs hard + if that's not enought you can get the second HD, Type II(5mm) slot is the most common(if i can say like that) slot and 5660 has 1(i think that's quite enough).
Now, about remote controll, to be real why do you need that? i don't think that's an adventage(i don't mention MP3 player) for choosing 8887 over 5660, + 8887 is really really huge, 5660 is big(a little bigger than dell inspiron) and 8887 is even more bigger, the only thing is that 8887 has is serial port, which is slowly but fading away(hello USB), the new 5660's screen is better.
now i don't say that 8887 is bad, no way don't think that, it's very very good but if you are a normal user and don't take any competitions in benchmarking(and 5660 could compete, very very good) and you are looking for a beautiful and deadly laptop, 5660 is for you, 8887 doesn't beat it that hard that you could notice the difference without the utilities, i mean only 200mhz, i think it's not a big deal, about video if you aren't super-duper 3D artist that counts every second when rendering of the image, 64 is enough
5660 will be an attacker here(as most of us like it more, and just can't order it because 8887 is more powerfull and it charms us)
ok let's begin, first of all 5660 is beautiful laptop, a state of art, 8887 has more options and is a little bit more powerfull than 5660, with CPU 3.06 GHz and with 128MB Video RAM, BUT!, i looked at the benchmarks at this forum and 2.8ghz 5660 didn't do a lot worser than 8887 it was something like 5660(2.8GHz) - 13000 and 8887(3.06GHz) - 14000, now that's not a big difference, a normal user(using programs not the utilities to measure the CPU Speed) wouldn't even notice the difference. About 128 MB Video, now tell me what can you start/play to eat whole 64 megs of memory?(that's the only difference beetwen this cards).
8887 has more PCMCIA(Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) slots(1 - Type III and 2 - Type II), there are 3 types of PCMCIA cards Type I(3.3mm) is used for memory, isn't 1024MB of RAM already enough in 5660? why do you need it? type III(10.5mm) is used for HDD(usually no more than 2GB) and 5660 has 60Gigs hard + if that's not enought you can get the second HD, Type II(5mm) slot is the most common(if i can say like that) slot and 5660 has 1(i think that's quite enough).
Now, about remote controll, to be real why do you need that? i don't think that's an adventage(i don't mention MP3 player) for choosing 8887 over 5660, + 8887 is really really huge, 5660 is big(a little bigger than dell inspiron) and 8887 is even more bigger, the only thing is that 8887 has is serial port, which is slowly but fading away(hello USB), the new 5660's screen is better.
now i don't say that 8887 is bad, no way don't think that, it's very very good but if you are a normal user and don't take any competitions in benchmarking(and 5660 could compete, very very good) and you are looking for a beautiful and deadly laptop, 5660 is for you, 8887 doesn't beat it that hard that you could notice the difference without the utilities, i mean only 200mhz, i think it's not a big deal, about video if you aren't super-duper 3D artist that counts every second when rendering of the image, 64 is enough
) then get the 8886, if the weight of the 8886 is a problem for you (which with mine I don't really notice) then go with the 5660. If you want dual batteries, get the 5660, if you want dual hard drives get the 8886. If you want the wider viewing angles get the 5660, if you want the tv capture card get the 8886, if you want the MP3 player.....get the 5660 and buy an MP3 player! (ok, I couldn't resist that one after all the complaints on the MP3 player).
