Please Inspect My Laptop Specs Before I order

[theboon12]

About to pull the trigger on a lap top for music concentration since I recently had my whole studio raided. Here are the spec's I'm considering tell me what you think:

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit(seems this is the only option for windows today)
Processor Intel i5-430M 2.26 ghz
RAM: 4 gb
HDD: 500 gb 7200rpm internal; 1tb 7200rpm external

One thing I'm debating about is whether or not the i7-720Q 1.6ghz would be worth an extra $150...

let me know what you think

[creeptown]

Looks pretty good to me mate, 64bit is the only option because the ram is 4gb or more... Just a suggestion use the laptop soley for music production and djing or whatever. I wouldnt use it too much for anything else because the less crap you have on it the faster it will run and it will stay in good shape.

[paradigm_x]

i7s are meant to be much better for audio as use hyperthreading;



the i5 theres a bit better than your proposed. The i7920 outperforms the i5750 by around 30% so you should see a bigger increase that that...

Obv if you can afford get the i7, whether its worth the extra is up to you im afraid...

HDDs look fine, and 4gb ram should be plenty unless your running lots of sample libraries. Win7 64bit is the way forward and home premium should be fine for music stuff (apparently!)


Im looking into a new system myself, desktop tho.

[darkartois]

Looks pretty good to me mate, 64bit is the only option because the ram is 4gb or more...

I just had a computer built for me. 6gb ram running xp. Does this mean I have 2gb of useless ram? When I go into system info it says only 3.5gb ram?? Sorry for my idotic question, and thread hijack

[creeptown]

no such thing as useless RAM, it basically allows you to have more things running at once to put it simply....

[lp]

Specs look more than up to the job but if you can stretch that extra bit more for the i7 it will be well worth it.

@darkartois - it should read 6gb mate, i'd open up the pc and just take out the ram and put it back in again. If it still shows 3.5gb check your bios settings to see what it says. Failing that then probably dodgy ram.

[paradigm_x]

Xp32 can only see up to 4gb (usually around 3.5)

You need a 64bit operating system to see it all.

Google it (sorry busy at work atm).

It is effectively wasted as XP32 cant see it !

Dont bother pulling it out if CPUz or something can see it all, or it shows up in BIOS boot screen.

[back2onett]

@darkartois - it should read 6gb mate, i'd open up the pc and just take out the ram and put it back in again. If it still shows 3.5gb check your bios settings to see what it says. Failing that then probably dodgy ram.

that's what happens when you get your ram off a torrent

really though should be fine as long as it runs with the processor and the motherboard. I got 6gb running on XP too, can't be assed with all this newfangled windows 7 bullshit

[darkartois]

Xp32 can only see up to 4gb (usually around 3.5)

You need a 64bit operating system to see it all.

Google it (sorry busy at work atm).

It is effectively wasted as XP32 cant see it !

Dont bother pulling it out if CPUz or something can see it all, or it shows up in BIOS boot screen.

happy days, mate told me that but didn't believe him 100%. couldn't be arsed upgrading windows though. It's all running very slick anyways. Chairs for the info