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Puttz2004 · 07-21-2004, 03:19 PM

I would have to go for a Dell 8100, or are they up to 8200 now, anyway there are the BEST as far as support goes which is really a good thing to have when your off at college. Belive me last year, freshman year for me, i droped my 8100 down 2 flights of cement stairs which left with little more than a crumpled ball of placstic. I swept it into a box told the dell folks that it use to be a 8100 and low an behold less than a week later i had another brand new one and only for the price of shiping the broken one back. Sweet right?

As for Hyper Threading, don't bother, so few apps handle it well or even utillies it at all your just throwing money away. don't get me wrong it certainly woun't slow down your machine it just you aren't gonna notice any diffrence. the technology is a great idea but more hype than anything. Ive worked with several servers running dual 3.06 ghz chips with HT and there was no real proformace gain unless you were running one of two programs designed for it and those are both Oracle server side apps so i don't know what these folks are running that utillies it so well but please fill me in.

One last bit of advice and that would be, make sure you get a good video card on your laptop NOT one with shared memory b/c that will bring that 512 of ram you payed for down to 384 or less in a hurry.

oh ya and don't get an AMD unless you like scorching your peepee through your pants!

07-21-2004, 03:19 PM	#39 (permalink)
Puttz2004 Upright Location: wherever i find myself...there i am	I would have to go for a Dell 8100, or are they up to 8200 now, anyway there are the BEST as far as support goes which is really a good thing to have when your off at college. Belive me last year, freshman year for me, i droped my 8100 down 2 flights of cement stairs which left with little more than a crumpled ball of placstic. I swept it into a box told the dell folks that it use to be a 8100 and low an behold less than a week later i had another brand new one and only for the price of shiping the broken one back. Sweet right? As for Hyper Threading, don't bother, so few apps handle it well or even utillies it at all your just throwing money away. don't get me wrong it certainly woun't slow down your machine it just you aren't gonna notice any diffrence. the technology is a great idea but more hype than anything. Ive worked with several servers running dual 3.06 ghz chips with HT and there was no real proformace gain unless you were running one of two programs designed for it and those are both Oracle server side apps so i don't know what these folks are running that utillies it so well but please fill me in. One last bit of advice and that would be, make sure you get a good video card on your laptop NOT one with shared memory b/c that will bring that 512 of ram you payed for down to 384 or less in a hurry. oh ya and don't get an AMD unless you like scorching your peepee through your pants! __________________ ~Friends will help you move mountains, best friends...bodies ~I have my good days when i feel truly happy....and then there are the days I wear pants.