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Hi I'm new to this so may have posted the wrong link - but Tommi quoted
where he got his machine on another part of the forum (HP General) the
post is

"Just ordered HP Compaq nw8240 - Will receive it in a day or two" #8

sorry this isn't a proper link - I've not learned the ropes yet!

The computer is even more expensive in the UK (I worked out that the UK
price with VAT is approximately £700 or 50% more than what Tommi paid!)

Does anyone know any cheap sources in the UK ? As it stands the Dell M70
is a lot cheaper - I just prefer the looks of the HP nw8240


James

I bought it at a Finnish net store: www.multitronic.fi . They've got cheap prices, although there are some even more cheaper stores around. I got the RAM from another shop (www.verkkokauppa.com), since I spotted it being sold at a competitive price. It's 1 GB Kingston Value RAM DDR2-533, which I got for 138.90 euros.

Hi Thread!

Can anyone of you perform a Cinebench2003 Benchmark on the 8240?
I want to purchase this laptop in order to run Cinema 4D and Rhino3 on it, and this Benchmark shows the Performance in these Programs very well.

Link to free Benchmark for WinXP: ftp://ftp3.maxon.net/pub/benchmarks/cinebench_2003.zip
or enter the Website www.maxon.de and follow the links.

thanks-A-lot

uhoule

P.S.: Anyone with experience withb C4D or Rhino3 on this machine?

Here you are:
I filled in the resolution and the color depth to the above info.

Thank you Tommi.

What do the results tell you?

my results pretty much the same

CINEBENCH 2003 v1
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Tester :

Processor : pentium m
MHz : 2000
Number of CPUs : 1
Operating System : xp pro

Graphics Card : mob. firegl v5000
Resolution : 1920x1200
Color Depth : 32

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Rendering (Single CPU): 267 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): --- CB-CPU


Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 315 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 1344 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 3294 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 10.45

****************************************************

hi ... since we are at it ... can anyone tell me what the specs of the WUXGA monitor on a 8240 are? that is what is the horizontal and vertical refresh rates.... couldnt trace that info anywhere ...

any experiences on installing linux on 8240?

by the way, on my system, default windows xp plus hp stuff takes 9 (!!!!!!!) GB. is this right, same with yours? what crap can one pile to get 9 GB? ... well ... just wondering ....

cheers,
adi

as for the dvd burner..that's about the only part of the nw8240 i am slightly disappointed in. it seems to be quite slow for what i'd expect of that quality. i ran a few tests, nero cd/dvd check, after 2 minutes the dvd drive was able to spin up to 2.25x (instead of its rated 8x) for a dvd, i tested with a few. I'm looking into seeing if there's anyway that can be corrected. i have the wuxga monitor, I was also unable to find specs, but if there's a program that you know of that might tell me what its vert and horiz refresh rates are, i'll run it. I tried installing debian a couple of weeks ago, but couldn't initialize X correctly, which i suppose could be related to not knowing the monitors true vert and horiz scan rates. I dont know about that 9gb of HP crap, I haven't reformated yet and my windows directory is only about 1.5 gigs, with a 14 mb HPQ program files directory with some of the hp stuff

according to powerstrip, the WUXGA monitor is "LCD5000" and reports its "max horizontal scan frequency" at 119khz, and its max vert at 61. i dont see a range like asked for when configuring X

installing linux (debian here too) is not a breeze, but it worked for me...

to get X running, I used the ATI drivers (google it).... the configuration tool fglxconfig (or something of the sort) did not configure X from the first try, and it was more or less by chance (i.e. by changins some of the default options presented) that i got it running ...
I guess if you want it, I could send you the configuration file.... might be the easiest solution to get it running ... i got 4 8240 s and thats how i got the other 3 running ...

however, even though I tried several modelines, the gnome screen resolution tool reports 56 hz for the refresh rate, no matter how i try to change the config file ...

... thats why exact specs for the monitor might come in handy [in my rather fuzzy approach to configuring it ....]

well, anyway, thanks for the info, i'll keep tinkering with it ...

adi

i had another issue with debian (no x running), my laptop shut down all of a sudden, then when I tried turning back on, it went on for about 2 seconds, then shut off. Did that 4 times. the only thing that comes to mind is that maybe it overheated?

apparently, first thing to do is to install acpid.... with no power management, it overheats indeed....

I myself did not have this problem at install, but I read about it on other forums and/or such. I did however encounter it while I was getting the wireless to work. The CPU (?) gets into a thermal zone where the system just shuts down ...

Have you guys played battlefield 2 on the laptop, i just bought it last day and battlefield is barely working with alot of grafic errors. If so what drivers are you using and does it run well?

i have, it seems to work fine. i thought there was just a problem with nvidia based drivers.