Some months ago, people on the forum said it was preferable to avoid Centrino based laptops to use with Vegas. But Centrino technology has a big advantage over P4 chips in laptops: battery time.
Is the situation still the same? Do you people who got Centrino chips and use Vegas have any good or bad comments ?
Running Vegas 5 and Vegas 6 here with HP Centrino Laptop.. and all is well.. i like the Centrino chipset myself.. Particualrly because of the great battery performance..
No problems with running Vegas on a Centrino notebook. The only issues were in connection with an external sound card and onboard firewire. But that had nothing to do with Vegas.
That depends and what you compared it with. In my experience, a Centrino will yield about the same performance as a P4 at a 30% higher clock rate (e.g. 1.7 GHz Centrino seems comparable to a P4 at 2.2 GHz).
The limiting factor on a notebook is not so much CPU performance but HD space, unless you use external drives via firewire or usb2.
Good to know since this P4 of mine is really poor at battery time ; around 45 mins and out! Even with two (expensive) batteries, that would be a *poor* performance...
It's just 1 1/2 year old, but next time I'll buy, I'll think a little bit more about it.... more, even, considering my work usually involves very few fx / tricks / compositing...
Centrino chip is a performer, but performance "catch" with most laptops is the basic drive. Some run at 4800rpm to 5400rpm, 2meg cache, so the swapfile and temp files can become a real issue with a project with a lot of files, small or large.
I'm using V5 on a centrino 1.6 GHz with 1GB RAM on a Dell Inspiron 6000, and so far no glitches. The battery life is outstanding - with the screen set on the second lowest setting, I'm getting about 4 hours per charge. I carry a second battery, so I can go about 8 hours if needed. The battery life drops somewhat when using a brighter screen, wireless connections, the DVD-R drive, or a PCMIA Echo Indigo card. Hard drive access hasn't been a issue yet, but I haven't tested the laptop with a large project.
Needless to say, I'm thrilled with the performance. My last laptop was a Sony Vaio P4 that lasted 1.5 hours maximum/charge, and had so much bloatware installed on it that it took me weeks to clean it up for audio/video work. Not to say all Sony laptops are bad, but my experience was poor with it.