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Computer lapetap questions
Posted on 08/16/2003 9:58:56 PM PDT by Commie Basher
Can anyone help with these questions?
ONE: Which laptop would likely be faster?
(1) IBM Thinkpad G40 with:
CPU: Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
RAM: 1 Gig
Graphics Card: Intel Extreme (which taps into the above RAM)
Harddrive: 4200 rpm
OR (2) IBM Thinkpad T40 with:
CPU: Pentium M (Centrino) 1.6 GHz
RAM: 512 Meg
Graphics: 32M 7500 Radeon
Harddrive: 5400 rmp
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TWO I've heard that CPUs are so fast, that anything over 1.4 GHz seems pretty much the same. The real bottleneck is harddrive speed. True?
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THREE: I have a Toshiba Satellite 4080XCT which I bought in March 1999. It has a 6.4 Gig harddrive. Can anyone make a reasonable guess as to its rpm speed? I can't find it in the specs.
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To: Vinnie
I'm not a technical expert on networking. Take the words of others on that.
One thing you find with Macs is that they can just about communicate with and translate info from any other computer system. And Mac software provides you with the options of translating info from your Mac into practically any format that could be read by other systems. They've had to include those options, or else they would be out of existence by now.
Go to an Apple store and play around with a Mac loaded with OS 10.2, It's a beautiful OS from a viewing standpoint (and offers tremendous stability, as well). I've used PC's on a limited basis and to me the PC OS is like a B/W TV and the Mac OS is like a color TV.
When you look at a computer monitor for several hours a day like I do, you appreciate what Mac has done to improve the aesthetics. I'm a woman, so perhaps aesthetics is more meaningful to me--but I don't mean to stereotype or generalize. I'm just conjecturing.
I've used Mac OS X for 1 1/2 years now and honestly can't remember one crash, except for the time my cat stepped on my keyboard while the computer was unattended and must have simultaneously pressed keys that caused the computer to freak out. I just shut down and restarted and it was fine. Lesson: close the lid on the laptop when you leave it unattended.
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08/17/2003 9:24:29 AM PDT
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randita
To: Commie Basher
Buy the laptop with ATI graphics if you want to do games. Althought a better notebook computer with an embedded ATI Radeon 9000 would be better for that. Dell has these.
If you don't care about games, but either one, but go for ergonomics of keyboard, mouse, and screen.
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08/17/2003 11:10:55 AM PDT
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xdem
To: Commie Basher
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08/17/2003 8:01:54 PM PDT
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Khurkris
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