Laptop Sony VGN A 690

MoBetta wrote on 2/4/2005, 12:02 PM

Need advise on laptop selection: Considering a Sony VGN A 290 or 690, but I have a few questions: Hard drive is 100GB but 5400RPM. I was told it is better on laptop than 7200RPM because of the size of the actual hard drive on a laptop and what matters the most is the size of the cache ( 2GB ) it also comes with an ATI X-600 video card, is it better than the 9700 and should I get 128 mb or is 64 mb sufficient. Also has 1GB of RAM. 17 in. high res. screen

Does anyone have any other suggestions for a better laptop? Sony is priced at $2,800

Thanks for any info

MoBetta

Comments

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/4/2005, 1:14 PM

Most important thing is the processor, Does it have an M processor or a real desktop processor (as you will get better performance from the normal processors but at the cost of battery consumption) Video card doesn't really affect Vegas too much, so I wouldn't worry about that. The more ram the better; 1-2 GB is where I would go, with whatever you get being DDR high speed ram and if you get 1GB make sure it's 2x512mb as that will give you better performance than a single 1GB stick. I would suggest a 7200 RPM HD as I think that since laptop drives are smaller, it would actually be slower accessing of data rather than faster for the same speed as in a desktop (maybe my logic is wrong here). Large screens are great, I have a 15.4 but I have a high res so that I can fit a lot on it. and I can just enlarge text for reading. Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

Dave

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/4/2005, 1:19 PM

BTW, I would suggest getting DELL INSPIRON 9100 off of EBAY (as dell had to quit making them because they were about $500-$1,000 less than that XPS and actually benchmarked higher on somethings than they're XPS flagship) That's what I use, and it's a bute. Does all I need and pretty snappy response. little bulky, but doesn't have any overheating problems like a lot of the desktop replacemnt style laptops have.

Dave