Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:44:53 +1000 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] BRAND NEW Libretto U100 announced!!!! =)
At 02:02 PM 23/04/2005 -0700, you wrote:
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:01:48 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] BRAND NEW Libretto U100 announced!!!! =)
> BHAHAHAHA! They actually compared the Libretto to the Dell 9300?!?! That'd > have to be the biggest notebook I've seen that qualifies as being a
Actually, not. But they did compare vs. other Mininotebooks if you look at the article. The dell was included because it was mentioned earlier, and PC Mag had the benchmarks.
Ah OK ... well that makes sense then ... *makes note to read the article before posting next time* :-)
> Any idea what RAM it uses (and the bus speed for that matter)? It's in their spec sheet - PC2700 DDR SDRAM. sigh..... Haven't seen memory this slow since the old 2Ghz P4 desktop CPU days. (for those that don't realize, most top-notch laptops are on DDR2 RAM, some dual-channel, and most at PC3200 or faster; desktops use even faster RAM)
Slow as it is, it's still reasonably quick especially if you're upgrading from the older Librettos! I see your point though ... but then how much extra cooling does the faster RAM need? I notice there are cooling vents specifically for the RAM on my notebook ...
Slow RAM significantly affects performance of the system, and is one of the BIG bottlenecks when processing large amounts of data.
Ayup ... although on the flipside, will the tasks that the Libretto get used for max out the RAM speed that much? At the end of the day, general "desktop" stuff (editing documents, surfing the web, etc.) feels just as fast on my new computer (2GHz Pentium-M, 1GB 533MHz DDR-2 dualchannel) as on my old computer (Athlon XP1600+, 1GB 233MHz DDR RAM). It's mainly in gaming, compiling programs, running virtual machines and "dedicated computation stuff" that the difference seems noticeable, at least to me ...
Wish they'd drop in DDR2 PC3200 like the SS SX they released at the same time
(and a killer ATI graphics subsystem.... sigh, this Intel 855GME subsystem is
going to suck for games!)
I sense thermal and power budget as a bit of a problem for something the size of the Libretto ... have you seen the cooling required in the Dell XPS-Gen2 (same chassis as the 9300 but with the GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-Express graphics adapter)? If not, peek at http://notebookforums.com/showpost.php?p=710489&postcount=7 ... it has TWO heatpipes coming off it to two separate, fan forced heatsinks in opposite corners of the notebook! (Yes, that IS the GPU under the big thing in the middle ... the Pentium M CPU is under the heatsink on the left and has a heatpipe going to the left fan which it shares with the GPU) Methinks it'll be at least a year (and probably another 2 being realistic) before graphics performance of that level becomes economically available in something that can be powered and cooled in a laptop the size of the Libretto ...
Still, think about it this way ... the Intel graphics should still run many of today's games as long as you don't run them with the details all the way up :-)
- Raymond
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