Thanks peter for the comparison. makes me wonder why the brutally short battery life for the x500? macbooks always seem to last longer on a single charge than any other laptops ave seen. does windows run too many unnecessary processes or is the battery hardware lower quality? even the regular macbook boasts a ten hour charge even when constantly connected to wifi. On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
Lets do a simple feature comparison between the three and taking the default configuration and the cheapest in the range:
*feature* *x500* *MBP* *m11x* *m15x* *specific model* X505-Q882 MC374LL/A
*screen size* 18.4” 13.3” 11.6” 15.6” *processor speed* 2.4GHz 2.4GHz 1.3GHz 2.4GHz *processor type* i5-450M C2D C2D SU7300 i3 370M *RAM* 4GB DDR3 1066MHz 4GB DDR3 1066MHz 2GB DDR3 800MHz 4GB DDR3 1333MHz *HDD Size* 500GB SATA 250GB SATA 160GB SATA II 320GB SATA II *HDD RPM* 7200 RPM 5400RPM 5400RPM 7200RPM *Graphics card* Geforce GTS 360M Geforce 320M Geforce GT335M with Optimus Geforce GT240M *Discrete graphics memory* 1GB GDDR5 256MB DDR3 1GB 512MB *Battery type* 87Wh, 12cell 63.5Wh unknown 56Wh, 6cell *Est. Battery life* 3.77Hrs 10Hrs 8Hrs unknown *Weight* 4.4KG (9.7lbs) 2.04KG 2.04KG (4.5lbs) unknown *backlit keyboard* no single color many colors many colors *Cost USD$* 1199 1199 799 1199
Obviously, the X500 has more brute power, but IMHO, it would come last last on my wish list.
Source: x500: http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/qosmio/X500/available-models MBP: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-13inch.html M11x: http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-m11x/pd?oc=dkcwmn1&model_id=alienware-m11...
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Daudi, I'm not sure of the nix distros but the X500 comes with 64bit Win7HP and 8GB Ram. With 2X640GB drives, I can already see it being used with Adobe CS3 on 64bit and also a partition to suit the scratch disks. Here is some interesting info from Adobe : http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/401/kb401088.html .
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Daudi Were <daudi.were@gmail.com> wrote:
which OS would you run on these machines? Would it make sense to run *nix distros if you want to do heavy photo + video editing?
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