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10-23-2004, 09:38 PM
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I made it clear I did not want a desktop PC, in my original posting. I definitely want a laptop for portability, not near portability. |
Apologies. I made the suggestion as I looked at my mega PC. I always try and look at all options. Also, Marc, what do you say to my findings that the Sony VAIO VGN-A117S 5400RPM DID NOT DROP FRAMES. Your general advice on avoiding 5400rpm does NOT ALWAYS APPLY then? |
This is a new, defragmented drive, performing at its maximum. Also, why do Adobe recommend 7200rpm as a minimum on their website and then let Sony bundle Premiere with their 5400rpm drive? Adobe and Sony WILL have talked about the bundle deal and I'm sure neither party wants their product to look bad because of poor performance. What do you reckon? |
The specs are recommended miminums. You are welcome to use any spec you want, but they may quote you the recommended stats when asking for tech support.
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10-23-2004, 10:01 PM
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I'd read somewhere that Asus sell "barebones" notebooks that allow you to add the CPU, RAM, Hard disc and optical drive of your choice, but i've not been able to get much further than this: http://uk.asus.com/products/notebook...s/m6_index.htm |
10-23-2004, 10:05 PM
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I would strongly urge you to consider a higher clock speed too.
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10-23-2004, 10:09 PM
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Bear in mind that the Pentium M's clock speeds are different to the Normal pentium 4 (ie, a 1.6GHz Pentium M is wwwaaaayyyyyy faster than a Desktop Pentium 4 1.6GHZ)
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10-23-2004, 10:12 PM
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Clock speed is still the same right? Just that it's more efficient ala the old Athlon Pentium equivalence. Anyone got any video benchmarks? Even though the Athlons had lower clock speed than the P4 equivalent, they still got wacked in encoding.
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10-23-2004, 10:18 PM
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With a 1.6GHZ pentium M, I may be wrong, but i'm thinking it's equivalent to a regular p4 with a clock speed of above 2.5GHZ. Of course, this varies depending on the circumstance it's used n, but hey, I don't have access to several different systems and components to test myself, this is just a very simplistic explanation.
It's not down to clock speed. In fact, intel have recently scrubbed their immediate plans to hit the 4GHz barrier, instead concentrating on bumping up real speed rather than numbers. (due to increasing cache and looking into dual-core technology amongst many other things, but i'm digressing....).
What I'm basically saying is that it's getting even less sensible to compare CPU performance just by looking at the clock speed.
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10-23-2004, 10:36 PM
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Eek. Think I'll stick to moving posts around and pensions  All this talk of L2 caches and bus frequencies make me go all dizzy.
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10-23-2004, 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by mikefishcake I'd read somewhere that Asus sell "barebones" notebooks that allow you to add the CPU, RAM, Hard disc and optical drive of your choice, but i've not been able to get much further than this:
http://uk.asus.com/products/notebook...s/m6_index.htm |
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10-23-2004, 11:06 PM
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Couldn't resist it You will not get the same performance as you will from a laptop with a proper Pentium 4 processor built-in. Pentium 4 machines are simply faster, and will do more in realtime than a Centrino. MPEG encoding is particularly faster: a 1.7 Pentium M (Centrino) took 3 times longer to encode a piece of MPEG footage than a 3Ghz HyperThreading Pentium 4. The results on rendering effects was less pronounced - a 10 Second DV crossfade took 20 Secs on the Centrino and 15 Seconds on a 3Ghz, a 1 Minute Title took 1 min 20 on the Centrino and 50 Seconds on the 3Ghz. On a 3Ghz with Canopus Edius we were able to achieve one picture in picture in realtime with a 3Ghz Pentium 4, but not with a Centrino.
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