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Topic: Could someone give an opinion on this |
erik
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Posted 16 Aug 2005 9:13 am |
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http://www.icpowerhouse.com/PRODUCTS/NOTEBOOK/CN5560.htm
This is being sold at Wal-Mart for under $600. The HD says 66/100 does that mean it's slow? Any comments appreciated. It is perhaps the lowest priced laptop around with decent specs. I Like the line in.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 16 Aug 2005 11:30 am
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It sounds like a standard hard drive.
The one thing, it only has 256Mb of memory and for Windows XP, that's really minimum - you really need 512 Mb. |
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erik
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Posted 16 Aug 2005 1:05 pm
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| Yes, but it can be upgraded to 1g. Interesting that it will support Athlon 64, if someday you choose to upgrade. |
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Donny Hinson
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Posted 17 Aug 2005 6:56 pm
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That HD figure (ATA 66/100) refers to a protocol that determines the max data transfer speed. There are faster ones, but you probably won't find them in a cheap computer. Anyhow, there's a ton of other stuff that determines exactly how fast a HD or a system is, for that matter.
That's kind of a bare-bones system, but still all you really need unless you're doing high-end games or graphic-intensive applications like 3D Auto-Cad or movie editing/photo retouching.
I have a real whoopee-wow computer where I work, 3.2ghz w/1 meg of ram and a 1066/FSB, and it's just barely faster for normal applications (surfing the web, downloading picture/music files, and all the the Microsoft Office apps) than the machine I'm using at home right now...
a 450mhz P-4 with 512 megs and a 100/FSB.
Go figure.
But remember...ram and cache give the most "bang for the buck". |
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erik
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Posted 18 Aug 2005 6:32 am
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Thanks for the input. For now I am going to upgrade my sysytem from PII Celeron @ 533 66FSB to PIII @ 550 100FSB. It won't cost but a few bucks to try. I already have a Audigy sound card. My grahpics really suffer AGP 64 bit with only max 8 meg shared.
I just bought one of those eJay music mixer programs and am bummed it won't work on my computer. I keep getting a illegal operation page fault error. Going to try virus scans and pcrescue to fix. Other than that have no interest in high end sequencing or recording so a new computer is not vital.
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