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Postby aznfs » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:56 pm

madmag9999 wrote:sorry bout the duble post but i was just thinking about battery life. if you get such a high end laptop and want to render on it and run the heat pad off of its power i highly dought the battery will last even an hour. so unless you plan on having it plugged in or haveing extrabatteries this is a huge problem.


i doubt ill ever do any final rendering...in class... where i wouldnt have somewhere to plug the laptop into, but i have considered adding an extra battery pak to the mix.... and the expenses go up :roll:

i dont realli care of the OS currently because my brother(who works for the infamous microsoft) can get me XP pro

the hard drive is the problem i want to get a 7200rpm hard drive and big like 80gb+ because i dont want to be hauling around an external everywhere<-- and i would need somewhere to plug this xternal in.

i wonder if putting an ice pack under the laptop would be bad? :lol: i mean a cooling pad is 30 bucks and an ice pack is well free is guess :lol:
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Postby aznfs » Thu Jul 08, 2004 1:59 pm

edit button

grrr... :lol: :lol: :lol: jk

would getting a dvd burner be unreasonable?
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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:21 pm

lotsa HD space 80 gb
lotsa procesing power 1.8 ghz
lotsa memory...512 min
minimum 64 memory for gfx dedicated...
dvd and cdr^^ combo drive

id even suggest gettimg an iBook or other type of portable Mac...theyll render much better than any laptop runnning intel or AMD for video...
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Postby dwchang » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:27 pm

DaNuKa_SAN wrote:id even suggest gettimg an iBook or other type of portable Mac...theyll render much better than any laptop runnning intel or AMD for video...


What?

Are you on crack? An iBook is easily the slowest solution out of the ones you've named. Seriously...an iBook? Do you even know how slow those run? Even by your guidelines it'd be too slow. An iBook's top speed is 1.2 Ghz. I don't understand how that can even come close to a 64-bit 2.0+ Ghz chip with Hyper-transport.

Oh and I know speed != Performance, but in this case, it's a known fact the AMD core is more efficient than the Apple core *and* it's obviously faster. That equates to a double loss for Apple and effectively the slowest chip on the market.

And how does this all equate to the fastest for video editing? I don't know how:

slowest processor + slowest memory = fastest editing :roll:

Do you have any benchmarks or well...any proof to back-up your statements? If not, I suggest you not make such outlandish ones.

You should brush up on your tech knowledge before making suggestions. It would suck for him to actually go with your recommendation and in turn have an outdated paperweight. :roll:

Also as I said earlier, your video card does very little to editing unless you buy something like say a Matrox X10/100.


aznfs wrote:the hard drive is the problem i want to get a 7200rpm hard drive and big like 80gb+ because i dont want to be hauling around an external everywhere<-- and i would need somewhere to plug this xternal in.


Uhm, you do realize there's no major laptop manufacturer with 7200 RPM hard-drives. The best you're most likely to find is 5400 RPM. I'm not at all saying they don't exist, but it will surely take some time before they become a standard. I strongly suggest an external for editing since the most you'll get is *maybe* 80 GB internally and I for one use quite a bit more than that to edit with (multiple projects).

Although I don't edit often on my laptop (not that powerful), I did buy an external HD to do it since the internal is too slow. You can get a 7200 RPM 8 MB cache external for ~100 - 200 bucks and that's a decent investment.
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Postby klinky » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:56 pm

DaNuKa_SAN>> Wow <a href="http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/72302/wo/ja7ZOdbfdAWR2tlb8bk1SWbg4HL/0.0.7.1.0.6.21.1.1.1.1.0.0.1.0"> Powerbooks are such a great value!</a>. Sure does run that Vegas 5 sofware that's only made for PCs too... :roll:

The eMachines seems like the best value out there. Someone on a forum I visit really liked it. It boasts some pretty spiffy specs for a laptop & for the cost. It's heavy though.

A good thing to get down right now, especially when buying a laptop, is what is your price limit. What do you want to spend? You can get some powerful lighter notebooks, but those are in the $2,000+ range.
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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:57 pm

two words my friend...

powerPC architecture

makes up for the loss in power...

ill put up some benchmarks once i find some...
(i have plenty for G4/5 and PCs though)
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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:58 pm

no problemo my flat round truncated friend^^

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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:59 pm

not that im partial to macs, i love PCs...
but u have to admit a macs graphical superiority
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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:00 pm

wtf graphical?
GRAPHIC!

damn...
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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:03 pm

here this should help...
i cant believe im actually defendin a MAc...lol^^

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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:04 pm

oh and sorry bout the ibook...i meant to say PowerBOOk G5^^
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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:05 pm

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Postby klinky » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:09 pm

Umm you do know those charts are in "seconds taken to render effect", higher = worse performance...
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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:11 pm

awww...shit ur rite...
damn...ok so then i just fucked myself and saved my honor at the same time^^

long live the PC^^
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Postby DaNuKa_SAN » Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:12 pm

*propmptly goes and flodges himself for defending the MAC*
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