fast laptop

[Roger Peterson]

my current Dell M70 has a 7200 rpm hard drive. When looking at the M90's I was suprised to see that was still the fastest, not even any 10k's. Do they make 10K 2.5" hard drives? It was brought up in the benchmark thread about the flash hard drives being very fast. Apparently you can get a 32gb flah hard drive for ~$700.00. I don't want to be the first to try it but that could make a big difference in a couple of years.

 

 

Keith, I look forward to seeing your times. There has been quite a range of times in the benchmark thread. Some of which were very suprising, on both ends of the spectrum.

 

Josh, it's more than likely the ATI graphics card, but people are getting them to work with X much, much better than version 9. Try searching for radeon, maybe something will pop up???

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

I haven't found a 2.5" hard drive that spins more that 7200, and if there is it more than likely has diminished amount of storage. I've looked for a larger 7200rpm drive than the 100GB that I have in my M90 but I haven't found one yet.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

Roger,

 

The times on my M90 as well as a M70 from our local dealers (In-House Solutions) laptop are posted in the "benchmark" thread.

 

I noticed that Colin from Boeing (M90, out-fitted the same) had quite a bit better result?

[crazy^millman]

Well guys I have got a Toshiba satellite that cost me $400 with 128mb ATI on board. I put 2 gigs of memory in it for $250 and it does a very good job with Mastercam X.

[Mr. Dayshift]

Very informative, thanks from over here.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

Ron,

 

What is a "very good job"?

[Steve Hattori]

I have a 2-year old MSI 1029 with an AMD Turion ML-40 processor, 2g ddr2 ram, 60g 7200 rpm drive, ATI X700 graphics card. It benchmarked Roger's file at 10 min 31 secs.

 

I was surprised to see the Dell M90's are not much faster, because I was thinking of buying one. Now, I'd say it isn't worth it, except for being able to run 2 instances of X2...

 

On the other hand, a little research turned up some laptops that run desktop processors, and one that will be able to run the quad-core Intels...

Now THAT should speed up laptop ops in X2 considerably. I can dig up the link if anyone is interested.(Clevo D900C from Eurocom)

Available now are Intel and AMD desktop dual-cores with GTX 7950 or Quadro FX3500 cards in dual-SLI config, with 2 160g 7200 rpm drives in RAID 0 or 3 in RAID 5 ... zippy indeed! But not cheap... $2500 to $4500 with 6800 Extreme CPU, 2GPU's, 4g ram,3 160gb 7200 RAID 5, etc. !

Like racing- speed costs money- how fast do you want to go?

 

Being on a budget sucks. Guess I'll just tape my monitor to the side of my desktop and stick a handle on it...

[88Matt]

HP is now sell laptops with duel HDD's on a raid set-up. Has any tried these or used one? I am looking to buy my first laptop and am seriously considering the HP's now.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

Sweet

[crazy^millman]

I can do all of my solid modeling, 5 axis toolpahs, lathe, mill/turn, and files up to 40 meg with no problems. I do use a cooler under it and that keep the temperatures down. For the Price I am very happy with what I can do and get done with it.

[Steve Hattori]

Ron, do you have a benchmark time with your laptop? Be interesting to compare, as some of the M90's like Keith's seem to have a slowdown.

 

Keith, check this link regarding setup in Windows for dual-core. Maybe it might help? http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

Thanks Steve, I'll take a look and let you know any results.

[Steve Hattori]

Keith, I'm going to try it on my desktop as well, and see if it makes a difference. Mastercam not being ported for dual-cores, we may not see anything. Worth a try though...

[Span]

Has anyone had had any experience with this company?

 

http://electracomp.com/

 

Looks like they have some nice machines, though a bit pricey.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

Steve,

 

No difference at all.

[88Matt]

Span,

They look nice but man, they sure are proud of them.

[connormac]

My new HP 9440 laptop seems to be about the 3rd or 4th fastest in the benchmark test. I am real happy with HP.

[88Matt]

That's good to here.

 

I am getting ready to order a custom HP from Costco based on the dv9000t series. I will save about $350 with better warranty and if it doesn't work the way I want, I have 6 mo. to take it back no questions asked.

[connormac]

Costco is good about that. What video card does it have?

 

[ 06-14-2007, 10:51 PM: Message edited by: connormac ]