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Hi, I want to buy a laptop having Intel Core 2 Duo chips and minimum 2 GB RAM. but not sure which brand is best among DELL, HP, ACER or TOSHIBA. Any suggestion?
Just curious... Anyone has any direct experience with Dell XPS MP2010[^]? Would you reccomend it? What do you think of it?
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David Knechtges wrote:
I found that 2GB wasn't enough.
My Toshiba with 2GB of RAM runs Vista Home just fine.
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Do you have Aero turned on? Mine was kinda "OK" when Aero was on. Turning the Aero off is all I had to do to make it perform well.
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Hi, I want to buy a laptop having Intel Core 2 Duo chips and minimum 2 GB RAM. but not sure which brand is best among DELL, HP, ACER or TOSHIBA. Any suggestion?
My brother has bought a Gigabyte laptop recently. It features a Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5 GHz) CPU, 4 GB RAM and 256 MB GeForce 8400 video card. It runs Windows Vista with all features turned on perfectly fine and costs no more than $1500. Good deal, huh ;)
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Hi, I want to buy a laptop having Intel Core 2 Duo chips and minimum 2 GB RAM. but not sure which brand is best among DELL, HP, ACER or TOSHIBA. Any suggestion?
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Mine is a Dell, running Vista Ultimate 64 bit. If you have to run Vista, make sure you get as much RAM as you can. I found that 2GB wasn't enough. When I went to 4GB it ran much better. Also turning off the indexing service helped a lot too.
Under vista we found also that a >$3000 2.4GHz core2 Dell workstation class laptop with 4GB of memory was not powerful enough to run vista (very slow as configured). However a much cheaper HP consumer grade laptop that cost less than 1/2 as much ran vista faster. I am clueless to why this is the case and also why it took more than 1/2 hour to boot the first time while it was optimizing but is seems that the vendor application really did not need as much power as they stated so we can get buy with this.
John
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Just curious... Anyone has any direct experience with Dell XPS MP2010[^]? Would you reccomend it? What do you think of it?
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
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David Knechtges wrote:
I found that 2GB wasn't enough.
My Toshiba with 2GB of RAM runs Vista Home just fine.
"Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
DavidCrow wrote:
My Toshiba with 2GB of RAM runs Vista Home just fine
My Toshiba laptop is just a Dual Core that came out just before the Core 2 Duo - 1.6ghz. I'm running Vista Ultimate with 1.5GB Ram and it seems only the hard drive access is what's lagging when firing up VS2008 or VMWare, but not as bad as my 2.5ghz P4... A faster desktop is possibly in the near future.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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i got a DELL rescently runs vista, i have 3GB ram, 256MB gfx card... works well. although i did uninstall all teh DELL software etc but that wasnt to painful. i can recommend DELL i think they give the best value for $ spec wise when i shopped around.
killabyte wrote:
uninstall all teh DELL software etc
I was going to suggest that. Any Dell machine with the Dell crap uninstalled ends up running okay.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Vista Ultimate and Home Premium (with all the media center software) will really slow down a computer.
Really? How does having software installed but not running slow things down?
Graham Bradshaw wrote:
Really? How does having software installed but not running slow things down?
I don't know. Ask Microsoft. In theory you should be able to go into the control panel and disable all the features...
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I had a laptop once, an Acer, was a royal PITA and they never solved the issues with it. I asked for a refund eventually after a few months of going in and out of 'repairs'. I can not recommend any laptop for that matter, but I would stay clear of Acer (unless you live next to them).
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)Acer seems to be the worst computer brand ever. I had major issues with my acer Desktop... difficult to open and insert upgrades... my cousin has an Acer laptop and has had to deal with a number of issues with it. Acer'scustomer support isn't good either.... I'd never recommend Acer to anyone. Recently, I bought an HP laptop and I am very happy with it.
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T series are great, but I have not tried them with Vista... still on Linux and XP
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Acer seems to be the worst computer brand ever. I had major issues with my acer Desktop... difficult to open and insert upgrades... my cousin has an Acer laptop and has had to deal with a number of issues with it. Acer'scustomer support isn't good either.... I'd never recommend Acer to anyone. Recently, I bought an HP laptop and I am very happy with it.
Meanwhile my 16mo old Acer laptop has had zero issues and installing more ram was a breeze. Which just goes to show another posters point about the futility of these threads because for any brand there're people with no problems and people with horror stories.
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Under vista we found also that a >$3000 2.4GHz core2 Dell workstation class laptop with 4GB of memory was not powerful enough to run vista (very slow as configured). However a much cheaper HP consumer grade laptop that cost less than 1/2 as much ran vista faster. I am clueless to why this is the case and also why it took more than 1/2 hour to boot the first time while it was optimizing but is seems that the vendor application really did not need as much power as they stated so we can get buy with this.
John
My guess is the configuration of vista and the probable tons of bundleware (firewall, virus software, etc.). I always suggest doing a clean install on any DELL / HP / etc. computer.
Todd Smith
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We use the recent T61 widescreen notebooks at work. Haven't run them with Vista (we downgrade them to XP) myself, but my co-worker runs his with Vista and has no problems with it. Flynn
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My guess is the configuration of vista and the probable tons of bundleware (firewall, virus software, etc.). I always suggest doing a clean install on any DELL / HP / etc. computer.
Todd Smith
I really could not explain this and for the cost you would think that Dell would/could configure the system correctly. Especially the 1/2 hour initial boot. To me that was ridiculous. If I bought it for myself I would have sent it back.
John
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Hi, I want to buy a laptop having Intel Core 2 Duo chips and minimum 2 GB RAM. but not sure which brand is best among DELL, HP, ACER or TOSHIBA. Any suggestion?
Over the years I have probably had 20 laptops. The first was one of the original 18 lb, 5 inch screen luggables I carried to Asia! Laptops usually last 12 -24 months before being broken or obsolete & passed on. I have had recent experience with Dell Inspiron (2.6 Single Core, 1G), Toshiba Satellite (1.6 Dual Core, 2G) & slight exposure to an HP Pavilion (??) with a 17inch screen. The Toshiba was a replacement for the Dell (passed on to another employee) & the HP is GF's. IMHO the HP is too large & heavy to travel with but it's biggest problem is the very limited range Wi-fi. GF always has to go sit next to the hotel computers while I am able to use either the Dell or Toshiba from the room. She recently took it to Europe and got so tired of lugging it around and not working, she Fed-Ex'd it home. All three were either XP to start with or upgraded to XP from Vista. Which made a huge difference in speed and stability (!) on the HP. For general use, the Dell has the fastest perceived speed. The dual core Toshiba only catches up when doing a massive spreadsheet re-calc and then it just matches the Dell. Processor speed still trumps core count in my opinion. I like the touch pad, keyboard & screen of the Toshiba best & Dell the least, perhaps because the Dell has the "widescreen" and an over sensitive touchpad. After six months of use, it never felt comfortable. You can quickly learn the keyboard of any laptop, but a poor touchpad or screen are forever. My 2cents! (Whatever happened to the "cent" symbol?)
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My guess is the configuration of vista and the probable tons of bundleware (firewall, virus software, etc.). I always suggest doing a clean install on any DELL / HP / etc. computer.
Todd Smith
Todd Smith wrote:
suggest doing a clean install
That's what I did right away with my Toshiba. It runs Vista Ultimate better than it did running Vista Home with all the junk Toshiba put on it.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon