Mouthwatering laptop next month

Coursedesign wrote on 3/12/2008, 8:58 PM
Acer is introducing a 6-speaker "movie laptop" with an 18.4" screen (1920x1080 resolution of course), Blu-Ray disc drive, and 5.1 sound (yes, with a subwoofer!).

Not too shabby for $1,999.

It is interesting that this is the first time a laptop has been offered with strict "1920x1080 HDTV resolution" as opposed to the usual "computer standard 1920x1200."

Expect to see more of these around...

Now, if only it didn't run that temporary OS we'll have to put up with until perhaps end of next year.

Anyone know if Vista has improved its disk write performance in SP1? Recent XP <-> Vista video app benchmarks have shown that XP writes to disk 110% faster than Vista (same app, same benchmark, same machine).

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riredale wrote on 3/13/2008, 10:05 AM
Regarding Vista, I saw this a while ago.

Regarding the 5.1 sound in the laptop, I think the only logical next step would be to install one of those "seat shakers" into the laptop also, so that when the T. Rex stomps his feet in the DVD movie "Jurassic Park" the whole laptop shakes.
Coursedesign wrote on 3/13/2008, 11:48 AM
1. Thanks for the recent ZD Vista-XP comparison, useful info:

So, onto conclusions. Looking at the data there’s only one conclusion that can be drawn - Windows XP SP2 is faster than Windows Vista SP1. End of story. [Out of the fifteen tests carried out, XP SP2 beat Vista SP1 in eleven, two of the tests resulted in a draw, and Vista SP1 beat XP SP2 in two of the tests].

Not a small difference either, with XP SP2 up to 75.7% faster than Vista SP1!

The reviewer noted that he had also tested XP SP3, but was prohibited by Microsoft from publishing any benchmarks on it.

Another reviewer had found separately that XP SP3 was about 10% faster than XP SP2, so this would really stomp Vista into the ground performance wise.

I wonder if the 64-bit Vista code is any better? Or does it use legacy 32-bit code for disk access?

2. I love your "seat shaker" idea, but I see that more as a seat pad plugged into a USB port, with a separate power feed to really move those gluteus maximus.

:O)