Just out of curiosity: Centrino and Vegas...

FuTz wrote on 5/1/2005, 11:11 AM
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 ?

Comments

rextilleon wrote on 5/1/2005, 12:27 PM
I use it with a Sony Centrion based lap top and it runs fine.
vidiot57 wrote on 5/2/2005, 1:30 AM
Hello,

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..

Mike Moncrief
ro_max wrote on 5/2/2005, 1:40 AM
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.
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 5/2/2005, 1:28 PM
Is it as fast on the render side of things ?
ro_max wrote on 5/2/2005, 1:54 PM
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.
FuTz wrote on 5/3/2005, 4:42 AM
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...
apit34356 wrote on 5/3/2005, 12:07 PM
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.
hugoharris wrote on 5/3/2005, 12:50 PM
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.

Kevin