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| Author: | Masterg [ Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Kioto can you help me look at this laptop? |
http://bestbuy.shoplocal.com/bestbuy/de ... 2091148784 i love the size and price, ive seen the atom results which are nice and comes with alot of software out of the box, only questions are do you think the harddrive and ram are upgradeable on this?and do you think the 945GSE integrated graphics could support ffxi? |
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| Author: | Pantherxx [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:21 am ] |
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may work but power house seem not as strong but may get alot of lags on FFXI. |
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| Author: | Mikey [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 6:03 am ] |
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ugh... yea it would run it, especially since ff is more processor dependent. Most integrated graphics chipsets work with ff. Thats not saying much though, a standard piece of wood could probably run ff just as well. I would reconsidering buying this just to play ff on it though. Considering this thing 9 to 10 inches long a standard 6 ft man would look pretty ridiculous running around with that. Let alone the extremely small screen. |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:33 am ] |
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well for 346$ thats looks awesome. comes with alot of software and stuff. im just tired of lugging my 50lb behemoth everytime i come home from school. id use it at home over summer and at my college for work |
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| Author: | Kioto [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:35 am ] |
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I don't know too much about notebook hardware but to answer your questions i did a little research and yes you can upgrade both, i don't know by how much of memory you can upgrade but you need to basically tear it apart before you can reach the memory and SSD. Now i've opened up laptops many times to clean dust from fans and so forth and it's a pain in the ass but very duable, just takes some time and patience. It's not actually a hard drive but an SSD afaik but you can mod it to fit/work with a hard drive, and if you're doing a memory upgrade you might as well change the drive in the bloody process. Pick a good SSD drive and good memory so you won't have any issues. Tutorials: Memory upgrade SSD/Memory upgrade As far as ffxi goes you should be able to run ffxi on a clean laptop, but the graphic resolution/quality may very quite a bit, i'm pretty sure that you'll be able to play it on low'ish setting. that laptop is also a pretty good deal. I hope this helps. |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:44 am ] |
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thnx, it can come in ssd or Hdd form. now the issue is every stores sold out already |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:31 pm ] |
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whats the diff between 802.11 and 3g and their advantages? |
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| Author: | Mikey [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:01 pm ] |
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Masterg wrote: whats the diff between 802.11 and 3g and their advantages?
different speeds. most are wireless b/g and shit to make sure every piece of hardware works with it. Its just varying speed standards that have improved over the years. Wireless N would be the newer type. |
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| Author: | Kioto [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:12 pm ] |
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3G is a cellphone technology and does not require a wifi hotspot, meaning you could have internet while riding a bus/car without being connected to a router. edit: Wikipedia wrote: Unlike IEEE 802.11 (common names Wi-Fi or WLAN) networks, 3G networks are wide area cellular telephone networks which evolved to incorporate high-speed internet access and video telephony. IEEE 802.11 networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data.
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| Author: | Masterg [ Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:11 pm ] |
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i pick this little behemoth tomorrow morning driving 2hrs to pick it up |
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| Author: | Mikey [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:29 am ] |
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IN MY DEFENSE I DIDN"T EVEN SEE HIM TYPE 3G LOL. I THOUGHT JUST WANTED TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN B/G LOL |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:57 pm ] |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:58 pm ] |
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dbl post |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:00 pm ] |
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dbl post |
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| Author: | Kioto [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:02 pm ] |
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Good luck with it, i hope it was worth it. |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:17 pm ] |
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according to SE it will be able to "play" ffxi, but after my college loans come in ill see if i cant get ram and hdd for it. |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:29 am ] |
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thanks for those videos kioto, me n geeksquad watched it to see where the ram goes and we tore apart a floor model One to take a look |
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| Author: | Kioto [ Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:41 pm ] |
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Yeah np man, i hope you can stick more then just 1gig extra in there. |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:41 am ] |
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im able to play age of empires 3, good news so far |
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| Author: | Pantherxx [ Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:57 am ] |
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nice now try FFXI ^_^ |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:05 pm ] |
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kioto this doesnt look like a 1.6ghz atom to me |
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| Author: | Kioto [ Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:58 pm ] |
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Mind posting a CPU-Z profile instead? You have to consider that on a laptop its most probable that they have a C1E setting or the likes to increase battery life and so forth. It's probable that with higher processor activity the multiplier and voltage goes back to normal. Keep in mind that you may not be able to shut it off. I haven't read anything this is just my guess on it, i could be wrong. Also the A230 is a single core cpu with HT technology, not a dual core cpu, but you already knew that. |
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| Author: | Pantherxx [ Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:32 pm ] |
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Masterg wrote: kioto this doesnt look like a 1.6ghz atom to me It is 1.6Ghz due to power steping that help to save battery power when system idle, Then when system is in demand then cpu will kick in high gear to 1.6Ghz. My laptop has that setup on intel 2Ghz with stepping down to 798Mhz to save power. |
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| Author: | Masterg [ Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:50 pm ] |
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how am i able to set core affinity to 2 different cores if this is a single core pc? my desktop can do the same thing but that cpuz says 2 cores 2 threads and no, the on ly thing i can do in bios is change the boot order 
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| Author: | Kioto [ Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:59 pm ] |
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That is called Hyper-Threading Technology or HTT, you can learn more here. It has only one core, but 2 logical processors which means that multi-core-capable apps can be a little faster, HTT has been around for quite some time. Notice what's being shown at the bottom of that CPU-Z window on the right side. The speed fluctuates to save power btw, idle = low multiplier = low core speed. |
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