Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Choosing new notebook

Hi, Community Brain. It’s time for me to change my old good Dell Latitude D820. I need performant machine and following the results of my findings. It’s really important for me to know your opinion about those choices. Also, if you have additional choices, I’d be happy to hear about it.

  Dell Precision M630 HP 8710W Lenovo T61p
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Processor Intel® Core 2 Duo T9500 (2.6GHz, 6Mb, L2 cache, 800MHz FSB) Intel® Core 2 Duo T9500 (2.6GHz, 6Mb, L2 cache, 800MHz FSB) Intel® Core 2 Duo T9500 (2.6GHz, 6Mb, L2 cache, 800MHz FSB)
Memory 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x2048) 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x2048) 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x2048)
Video Card NVidia® Quadro® FX 3600M (512MB dedicated) NVidia® Quadro® FX 3600M (512MB dedicated) NVidia® Quadro® FX 570M (256MB dedicated)
Hard Drive 200GB SATA (7,200RPM) + fall sensor 200GB SATA (7,200RPM) 200GB SATA (7,200RPM) + disk encryption
Optical device 8X DVD +/- RW 8X DVD +/- RW Blue-ray 8X DVD +/- RW
Modem 56.6k v.92 56.6k v.92 --
Wireless Networking Intel PROWireless 4965 802.11 a/g/Draft-n Intel® Wireless LAN 802.11a/b/g/n Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN
Bluetooth Dell Wireless 360 Intel Bluetooth‏ Integrated Bluetooth PAN
Primary battery 9 Cell Li-Ion (80 Whr) 9 Cell Li-Ion w/XPP 3 yr warranty 9 cell Li-Ion Battery
LCD 17” WUXGA (1920x1200) UltraSharp + anti-glare 17” WUXGA+WVA (1920x1200) anti-glare 15.4” WSXGA+  (1920x1200)
Weight 8.5 lbs/3.8 kg 7.4 lbs/3.4 kg 7.3 lbs / 3.3 kg
Dimensions 1.6”(H) x 15.5”(W) x 11.3”(D) 1.3”(H) x 15.4”(W) x 10.8”(D) 1.4”(H) x 14.1”(W) x 10.4”(D)
       
Cons I saw Precision series in work – performance is not good enough for such configuration (for comparison, my old Latitude with the same hardware configuration worked much better) Everyone I asked, tell me, that HP machines are not reliable enough Keyboard layout is absolutely awful. It impossible to work with Fn and Ctrl swapped.
Graphic card is not strong enough
It’s 15.4”
Pros It is very reliable Very good performance
Very lighter
Good battery life
Absolutely reliable
Great performance
Outstanding battery life

 

What to do? What to choose? Please advice!

Thank you

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