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Comparison of best notebooks
Ambiguity of term „best notebook”
Comparisons like this are always very hard. We could simply
choose the one presenting the best performance, but then we
have to consider things like short battery life, which in terms of
mobile devices, is very painful. Also, the screen size is essential.
Visual experience from games and movies will be the best on 17”
and 18,4” HD displays, but again mobility suffers a lot.
That is why we will split it into 3 categories:
- Best performance/gaming notebooks
- Best mobility/netbooks
- Best economic workstations
What I would like to present are basic rules when choosing notebooks
and traps we have to avoid. For example...
Seen on Allegro.pl
DELL Precision 6500
Strong CPU Intel Core i7-940XM (8M Cache, 4 cores,
2.93 GHz)
Storage: 2x 256GB SSD
Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro® FX 3800M
1024MB
Display: 17" WXGA+ 1440x900 LED backlight
Memory: (4x4096MB) 16 GB
OS: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
Price: 20.000 PLN
Gaming notebooks
When considering gaming notebooks, the most important is
their graphics card. Luckily for us, there is a very good and
up to date comparison on this website
http://www.notebookcheck.pl/1174.0.html
CPU, display's quality and resolution, quantity of memory
are on the second place
Monster
ALIENWARE M17X
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 2 x 5870HD CROSSFIRE
Intel Core i7-740QM (4 cores, 1.73-2.93 GHz, 6M
cache)
Display: 17,1" WUXGA+ (1920x1200) LED
Memory: 2x4096MB 1333GHZ
Storage: 2x 500GB SATA 7200 rpm
Optical drives: Blu-Ray Combo
Price: 10.299 PLN
ASUS G73JW
Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 460M 1536 MB DDR5
Intel Core i7-740QM (4 cores, 1.73-2.93 GHz, 6M
cache)
Display: 17,3" FullHD (1920x1200) LED backlight
Memory: 4x2048MB 1333GHZ
Storage: 2x 500GB SATA 7200
rpm
Optical drives: Blu-Ray Combo
Price: 6.599 PLN
MSI GX660R
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB DDR5
Intel Core i7-740QM (4 cores, 1.73-2.93 GHz, 6M
cache)
Display: 15,6" FullHD (1920x1200) LED backlight
Memory: 2x4096MB 1333GHZ
Storage: 2x 500GB SATA 7200
rpm
Optical drives: Blu-Ray Combo
Price: 5.599 PLN /
4.949PLN no Blu-Ray drive
Best netbooks
Notebooks were invented to allow people to
carry their computers all the time. It is
especially important for businessmen, IT
specialists, who need a computer which is
available whenever they want, not a massive
and discharged gaming station. For them a
totally different criteria are important, that's
why now we will focus on small netbooks, with
long battery lifes.
Small but Beautiful
ASUS Eee PC 1015 PEM
Samsung NF210
Intel Atom Dual Core N550 (1.5 GHz, 1 MB cache)
Memory: 1x2048MB DDR3
Display: 10,1" (1024x600) LED
Graphics: Intel GMA 3150x
Storage: 250GB SATA 5400 rpm
Price: 1.449 PLN
OS: Windows 7 Starter 32-bit
Up to 9h working on battery
Price: 1.499 PLN
ASUS Eee Pc 1215N
Intel Atom Dual Core D525 (1.8 GHz, 1 MB cache)
Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333MHz)
Display: 12,1" (1366 x 768) LED
Graphics: nVidia ION 2
Storage: 320GB 5400rpm.
Up to 7h working on battery
Price: 1.849 PLN
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge i3-380UM
Intel Core i3-380UM (1.33 GHz, 3MB cache)
Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1066MHz)
Display: 11,6" (1366 x 768) LED
Graphics: Intel GMA X4500
Storage: 320GB 5400rpm.
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Up to 7h working on battery
Price: 2.749 PLN
Best economic workstation
Sometimes we just need an efficient,
inexpensive computer to work on. Tiny touchpad
and keys don't satisfy us, since we have to
spend a lot of time by our notebook. It must be
convenient, reliable and (apart from high end
gaming) able to deal with most of our tasks.
Inspiron 15R ALU
Intel Core i7-740QM (1.73 GHz - 2.93 GHz, 6 MB cache)
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1024 MB DDR3
Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333 MHz)
Display: 15,6" (1366 x 768) LED
Storage: 640GB SATA 5400rpm.
Price: 3.199 PLN
Packard Bell LM85-5464G64
Intel Core i5-460M (2.53 GHz - 2.80 GHz, 3 MB cache)
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1024 MB DDR3
Memory: 2x4096 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333 MHz)
Display: 17,3" (1600 x 900) LED
Storage: 640GB SATA 5400rpm.
Price: 2.949 PLN
Packard Bell LM85-5464G64
Intel Core i5-560 (2.66 GHz - 3.20 GHz, 3 MB cache)
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 310M
Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333 MHz)
Display: 15,6" (1366 x 768) LED
Storage: 500GB SATA 7200rpm.
38-months Next Business Day warranty
Price: 3.299 PLN
Samsung RF710
Intel Core i5-480M (2.66 GHz, 3 MB Cache)
Graphics: nVidia GeForce GT 330M 1024MB DDR3
Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333 MHz)
Display: 17,3" (1600 x 900) LED
Storage: 640GB SATA 5400rpm.
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Price: 2.872 PLN
Sources:
- http://www.notebookcheck.pl/1174.0.html
- http://www.x-kom.pl/
- http://www.asus.com/
- http://www.benchmark.pl/
Radosław Kotaba
EAIiE
Electronics & Telecommunications
I year