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Time to select a company home-PC. Any help would be appreciated, I have no clue what's hot these days. I have to decide between a laptop and a big ass regular PC, both from HP. The laptop is the 17" dv9000 (maxed out, model name dv9094ea) AMD Turion X2 TL-56 2048MB nVidia GeForce Go 7600 256MB 2x100GB SATA 5400RPM TV-card, 1.3MP webcam etc. The tabletop is a maxed out HP Pavillion d4595 AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ dual core 2048MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX PCI-Express 512MB 2x250GB SATA 7200RPM 24" wide-screen display Both come with Logitech Z-5450 5.1 speakers. I'm really leaning towards the tabletop, much because of the huge screen. I edit alot of photos regularly in PS, so it would be nice. On the other hand, my current laptop is a real POS, while my tabletop is pretty OK, it runs San Andreas smooth anyway. I have to pay for these, but the prices are low and it's over a 3-year period. The tabletop with the big screen costs a little more, but is there anything specific about either one of these that would make you choose it. Danke. |
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It depends. Do you plan to travel a lot? Or will you have more free time to work at home. Generally, PC's are more powerfull than laptops. That's what I like anyways. |
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I've never been a fan of anything HP has done. Looking at some tech sites, the 5000+ is the second fastest AMD. Fastest of the normal CPUs. Too bad I can't take the 24" TFT with the laptop as an accessory. I don't know..this is so hard. Tough decisions :) |
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E Machines have been a good brand lately. My friend got one and has done some amazing things to it. Supercomputer! |
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check the weight of the hp laptop - is it really portable? one of my relatives has a portable 3 Ghz hp laptop, it's a 5 kg thick monster which sounds like a hairdryer... |
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i would say go with the laptop only if you think you will need the portability. if you plan on live performance, or working on shit at the coffee house etc.. a 17" laptop, is actually kinda moving away from being portable i think anyway. the desktop will pack a lot more punch for the money but of course you can't take it on a bus.. easily. |
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i have a laptop that's like a "portable pc".. it's fucking heavy. it has the specs a PC would have, and that's why I bought it, so it'd have the extra functionality of being portable.. and while it is, it's a pain to carry around, and you'll find that laptops *do* begin to break after a short while, whereas PCs are far more reliable, and even if they do break, you can just take them apart and fix them. so i've learned from experience. once my laptop has finally bitten the dust (it's well on its way), i'll make myself a new PC, and buy a cheap, small, low-spec apple laptop for bringing to Uni and back. i hope this helps you form a decision. |
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The laptop weighs 3.6kg and looks like a pretty slim design. At least the flash presentation said slim is in. My current laptop has never left this apartment unless I needed it on a vacation, for unloading memory cards off the DSLR. I suppose it says something about my needs to take it on the bus :) How does a 24" monitor work with websites and so on? Can I have the same size webpages as now, only with more space around them or how does that work? Would this msg board get stretched out or stay in shape? The resolution is 1920x1200 and since it's a TFT, I guess it only looks good at that. More space in photoshop would really be awesome, if it works like that. |
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If it's pictures and stuff (should have guessed) you may want to get a Mac laptop. The gamma display is way better, Adobe programs seem more suitable for it. but my second recommendation would be one of the new HP laptops. |
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macbook pro :) |
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Laptops have become more appealing to me now wireless net access is so prevalent. Far nicer to answer emails sat on the settee watching TV/rather than in my office. I like my laptop because it's actually higher spec than my desktop and as I work on the road a lot, it's the only practical way I can take enough stuff to do whole tracks with me when I go away (I used to take an electribe and headphones instead). I quite like being in hotel rooms writing tracks on a laptop and then taking them home to the studio to finish them off. For serious graphics/photo work I'd say go for a desktop. Big, good brand (I like Iiyama- superb quality and the 10 year warranty on them is great) CRT monitors are still noticeably better than the best LCDs, even though the difference is no longer as huge as it was, it's still there. Yes, you could plug your laptop into a desktop machine, but you probably will find you seldom bother, even if the laptop graphics card can output at a high enough res. to warrant it. |
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the worst thing about my laptop is the 'eraser' type mouse. I've seen those thin tabletop monitors, but my tabletop pc has the huge tv-style monitor, so this laptop is much much smaller/lighter. I'd still have to hook stuff to it like a scanner/printer though. It is really hard for an idiot like me to change parts in a tabletop; I changed a dvd drive to a cdr drive on this laptop extremely easily though- just press one button and the drive pops out. You interchange them and it automatically works without even uninstalling/installing anything. What might be stupid is I might hook a seperate mouse and keyboard to this, thus making me have to position the laptop further away because its own keyboard would be in my way. Thus I might want to attach a seperate monitor to it so the screen can be closer... so it might basically be a tabletop pc, only stemming from a laptop. |
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I don't trust laptop displays for photo editing. I edited blog photos on my IBM for a while, when inbetween PC's, and I had to desaturate them afterwards. I'm sure laptop displays have improved in 2 year's time, but I'm pretty much set on the 24" deal. Been talking to people at work and looks like most of them are going for the tabletop. I found out, I could select both (without the 24"), if I wanted to, but that would cost too much. I need some of that paycheck for rent and stupid electricity and stuff. w M w, I have the eraser thingy on my laptop too. IBM refused to put those touchpads on their laptops in the past, but they do have the cutest little optical mini-mouse. A mouse is a good idea with laptops anyway. Just selecting and copy-pasting is a pain with anything else. |
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Got the computer today. The 24" screen is awesomest of all. It's a bit thin on connections (2 DVI and no S-Video), but photoshop is so awesome on it. Now..to find the classic Winamp. |
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