Between These Two - Page 2

both of these are ati radeon 9700. which to my understanding is one of the best gpu's available.

ahhh.... What is your budget tapping out at for your purchase?

Good lord Mayaman2 a thousand posts since june? ::snickers::

turanuk started around the same time and has like 400 more posts then me. i will catch him someday.

hmm. Wow. the Edge 745 Accelerator uses 400mhz DDR Memory??
I didn't even know that was possible. Or is it only possible when coupled with the 1.8/2.0ghz dothan?

Anyways, some1 enlighten me since I'm not too knowledgeable about this stuff.

cmon peeps, battery is nowhere near as important as people make it out to be. 80% of people never or rarely use their batteries and that's a fact (that i can't remember where i read it sry). go for power and widescreen and amd 64 and 9700 and candy imo.

You can put 400Mhz memory into the laptop, but it will run at 333Mhz.

oh.. okie.. that i understand..

so emm.. why would they use ddr400 then instead of ddr333?

The answer here is actually quite simple: What kind of laptop do you want?

The Dothan laptop will give you very good performance and a great graphics card, in a very portable package that will be able to last on the road for about 4 hours, and be about 7 pounds carrying weight.

The AMD 64 laptop will give you about 5-20% more performance, and the 17" screen will give you more on-screen real estate, however portability will be reduced as your battery will last about 1.5 hours and your carrying weight will be about 10 pounds.

If it was me who was buying the laptop, I would get the Dothan one because the performance you get with the AMD laptop in my opinion does not justify the loss in portability, after all it is a laptop because desktops with the X800/6800 will easily outperform the best laptops. I also doubt that the AMD would have any significant gaming performance advantage over the dothan, because it is the graphics card (ATI M 9700) which affects gaming performance most.

But really, it is up to you. If you do not intend to take the laptop with you frequently (ie. less than twice a week) then get the AMD laptop. If you intend to take the laptop with you more than twice a week, then get the Dothan laptop. If you dont intend to take it anywhere, get a desktop.

They cost pretty much the same. If an OEM/Reseller stocks PC2700, and then newer laptops can all take advantage of PC3200, they'd get stuck with the slower stock that no one wants. So, just buy the PC3200 and even if it's not used now, it might just be used in the future.

they cost the same?
damn it