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offline brokephones from Londontario on 2004-11-25 09:21 [#01405286]
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Sony Vaio T Series

The portability factor is fantastic. But the processor kinda
scares me:
Intel® Pentium® M Processor Ultra Low Voltage 733 (1.10
GHz, 2MB L2 Cache)


Would it be able to handle Reaktor, Live, Cubase, FlStudio 5
that well?

Im thinking about picking up a 12 inch powerbook or one of
these little sonys.

Thoughts?



 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-11-25 09:56 [#01405338]
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The M (centrino) processors are oodles more efficient than
the P4s from what I've heard. They do more than P4s per
clock cycle - apparently the P4s waste cycles sitting there
holding their dicks. M series Spozed to be very good for
Reaktor. Make sure the bus speed is nice and fast.

The only thing to watch out for is make sure there's a bios
setting you can check to run the processor at full clock
speed constantly - otherwise it will keep switching to idle
mode to save power. I think most of the M based laptops have
this. Obviously if you have it plugged in and you're sitting
down making music you don't want it switching to low power
mode randomly and adding glitches. I mean unintentional
glitches. :D


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2004-11-25 09:57 [#01405340]
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Oh wqhoa whoa whoa - 1.10 gHz? That's a bit on the slow
side. I'd get something a little more kickass than that -
2gHz or up.



 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-11-25 10:01 [#01405345]
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The screens are tiny...If there is one thing you need when
running music apps it is screen space. At least that is
what I think.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-11-25 10:03 [#01405347]
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No i totally agree. I usually have a bunch of things running
at once and i like to view it all.


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2004-11-25 10:09 [#01405357]
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Yeah I've concluded that these vaios are a little
underpowered.
I want a laptop that can easily be whipped out and played
with. I'm kinda thinking powerbook 12 inch at the moment


 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2004-11-25 10:41 [#01405395]
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if its centrino then the Ghz processor speed is always
slower, but yet in 'real world tests it works better then a
P4 2.8 Ghz' or so i heard.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2004-11-25 10:46 [#01405401]
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with something that small you can't have a processor that
produces too much heat. I think that's why they've only been
able to go for 1.1GHz. Mobility over speed


 

offline stilaktive from a place on 2004-11-25 12:00 [#01405451]
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yeah but Pentium M works as fast as new processors in
laptops.


 

offline oyvinto on 2004-11-25 12:12 [#01405455]
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i have a 1.7 pentium m.. very good. 1.1 is not much these
days.


 

offline Chihiro from twins land on 2004-11-25 12:38 [#01405469]
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My advice is....

Get the home computer: Mac G5...

You won't have ANY problem with it what so ever.....

It's got it ALL


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2004-11-25 13:28 [#01405497]
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i've got the new iMac G5 20", best computer i've ever
owned... i've owned mac computers for years, still waiting
for one to crash or get a virus :)


 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2004-11-25 13:49 [#01405506]
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I have a Dell Laptop:

12" screen
1.60Ghz
512 Ram
30 gig HD

looks like the Viao T series for

(drumroll)...

$850


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-11-25 15:47 [#01405553]
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Pentium M is an awesome processor. Very power efficient and
quick. It's based on the PIII architecture which was
fantastic. The new dual core pentium chips will be based on
the M processors. Intel themselves have admitted that hte P4
just wasn't a good processor. It's just clockspeed that has
kept it where it is but now that's really hit a barrier with
their current hear output.

pantalaimon: I'm getting the old work G3 :D


 

offline pOgO from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-11-25 15:50 [#01405560]
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just 2k?

Fantastic

I'll have 8 please

O_o


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2004-11-25 16:32 [#01405597]
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I just got back from the mall, checking the sony store so I
could get my hands on the T series. Its fucking smaller in
person than I had envisioned. Looks amazing but...
After leaving, I knew I was going powerbook instead :)


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-11-25 16:32 [#01405600]
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blah blah du du du blah blah du du


 

offline brokephones from Londontario on 2004-11-25 16:33 [#01405601]
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I see you've switched to the spear toting samurai division


 

offline hyakusen from 8=============> on 2004-11-25 16:35 [#01405606]
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hai


 

offline osiris from Canterbury on 2004-11-25 16:55 [#01405629]
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my laptop has a pentium M at 1.4ghz, whats the P4 clock
speed equivelant?


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-12-01 07:35 [#01411656]
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Yep, I have a 22" monitor and I'm looking at getting a
second one and have dual video out to fit all my stuff on
the screen(s) at once...


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2004-12-01 08:15 [#01411686]
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I think they are actually just normal laptops but really
quite far away.


 


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