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Help! Sentia or Sony s270???

post #1 of 5
10/17/04 at 6:08am
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I am after a portable laptop, and i can't decide between the Sony s270 and the Sentia.

Both have the same specs except:
the Sony is a 13.3" (where Sentia is 12.1")
has 64mb Radeon 9700 (where Sentia is Intel Extreme 2)
has a max of 1gig of ram. (where Sentia has a max of 2gig)

Sony also provide an international warranty. Since i live in Australia and will probably buy in America, thats kinda handy. Does Alienware offer anything like that?

Basically in my mind it's the trade of between a good graphics card and slightly larger, against super sexxy and a increadably large amount of ram.

I really want to get the Sentia over the Sony, but i can't really justify it in my mind.

Anyone?! HELP!!
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post #2 of 5
10/17/04 at 10:49am
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The reason why a graphics card may be important is so Longhorn (windows 2006) will be able to run.

I've both read and been told numerousely that windows will be moving all of it's GUI processing to the GPU, and have read thet they recommend a 32mb graphics card.

I'm not sure how well the Sentia will be able to handle that...
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post #3 of 5
10/17/04 at 12:15pm
Longhorn isn't expected until 2007 if I'm not mistaken. We'll surely be using something more than the Sony at that time as well. Nothing is future proof in this biz.
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post #4 of 5
10/17/04 at 8:09pm
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thats very true...
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post #5 of 5
10/18/04 at 1:54am
the sony has the same size as the uniwill (sentia), just a larger screen.

I'd go for the sony - the graphics piss me offf on the uniwill.
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