 Vchat20Landing is the REAL challengePremium
join:2003-09-16
Columbus, OH | reply to ztmike
Re: Questions on a new laptop Generally speaking with laptops, memory speed is far from a bottleneck to worry about. Go for maxing out capacity and don't focus closely on speed, SSD if you can afford it or at the very least a modern 7200rpm drive, and at the bottom of the list is CPU if possible upgrades for that model provide significant performance boosts.
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I swear, some people should have pace-makers installed to free up the resources. Breathing and heart beat taxes their whole system, all of their brain cells wasted on life support.-two bit brains, and the second bit is wasted on parity! ~head_spaz |
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 ztmikeMark for moderationPremium
join:2001-08-02
Michigan City, IN | How much of an improvement would I net going from a 5400 RPM drive to a 7200 RPM drive? I really would like a 1tb drive for the extra onboard storage, but if I will see a good improvement going with a 7200 RPM drive I'll probably just do that.
Then buy a external storage drive. |
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bbear2Premium
join:2003-10-06
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kudos:3 | It depends on your particular situation and applications that you run. If you are running things completely in memory, it will probably have little effect. However, most people are I/O bound to the disk - hence why SSDs are becoming so popular. I personally would never buy a system with anything less than 7200rpm disks. |
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