Hi Tim,
One thing I have noticed from the Tesco pics, one laptop has what appears to be VGA out while the other has HDMI. I mention this if you are going to connect into someone's projector (for your presentations).
Also, with amusement, Tesco indicate the Asus comes with 802.11b !
Bob.
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From: hampshire-bounces@??? [
mailto:hampshire-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of ext Tim Brocklehurst
Sent: 11 January 2012 22:25
To: hampshire@???
Subject: [Hampshire] Help! I'm buying a laptop.
Hi guys!
I realise I haven't posted anything on the list for ages, and that most of you will think that's a good thing. However, I need a little help...
For a while now I have thought that my 2.4GHz P4 has been a little underpowered, and was considering replacing it with a big desktop rig.
However, I now find myself reasoning thus: I am going to be doing more mobile computing, presentations etc. A laptop is more useful for mobile development (ie. at LUG Meets). A laptop is still going to be several times faster than my current desktop.
Unfortunately, I don't have limitless money. Consequently, I'm after the best "bang for my buck", and here's the problem. Having identified two laptops
(below) which look good, and are a sensible price, how does one choose between them when all the information available (benchmarks and user reviews) seem to be either sketchy or very similar (and sometimes wildly different for no adequately explored reason).
Therefore, if anyone has either of these laptops, could you run the Byte benchmark for me, over 1,2,3 and 4 copies?
If not, does anyone have any general advice?
Toshiba L750D-14F (AMD A6-3400, 6GB Ram)
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.215-7397.aspx
ASUS K53SC-SX307V (Intel Core i5-2430, 4GB RAM)
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.213-9815.aspx
Byte Unix Benchmark v5.1.3
http://code.google.com/p/byte-unixbench/
For reference, Byte records the following speed indexes for my current machines (overall results):
Copies/Threads
1 2 3 4
TS7550 - ARM9 SBC 15.6
Pentium 4 - 2.4GHz 447.3
Intel Atom D525 (Server) 389.7 637.7 698.0 770.1
Yes, that does mean that my server is quicker than my desktop on well-threaded tasks for about 1/3 of the power consumption (educated guess). The TS7550 is an intentionally low-power system, so the low result is not surprising.
Any help would be much appreciated,
Tim B.
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