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I want to survey peoples experiences with 'mobile' processors in laptops with resolume of the type such as 'centrino', 'pentium M', (NOT P4s and Athlons etc to be clear)

We know desktop processors are recommended for obvious reasons but with mobile processors usually much cheaper I think we should know what kind of performance we can expect, as I have read a few positive things about centrinos etc on this forum, and if this performance is acceptable.

So...

In a situation where you are running Resolume 2.2 on a single 'mobile' processor laptop (no hardware mixing) with up to three layers of video (not .swf) how do you rate your machines performance with resolume?

Please also state wether you use the internal or an external/second drive for your clips. Your make/model of machine may also be helpful.

Thanks, hopefully this info will turn out to be useful and replace recurring 'is a centrino ok?' and 'what processor?' threads

Come on there's more of you out there, vote!!!

Bump.

Still not enough votes! I know there are plenty Centrino users out there, just vote please! This could be very useful info for others.

Thanks

last bump

just got one and its very nice but it does slow down alot when pushed.

yeah, got a new Sony Vaio with a Pentium M 740 and 1GB of RAM works really well with 3 layers of video and effects, but my last setup was pretty bad... The hard Drives is a bit small though (80GB) probably going to have to fork out for an external one...

I' m using a Fujitsu-Siemens M1425 with Pentium M 745, 1GB RAM.
I'm happy with it

IBM Thinkpad, Pentium-M at 1.7Ghz, 7200RPM 80GB drive.

I have 3 layers at 320x240, with effects, running at more than 30fps.

Out of curiosity, what kind of clip size and frame rates are people seeing?

This is encouraging me to go for a P-M with 1gb ram and ati card in conjunction with either firewire800 or exSATA.
Dell Inspirion6000 is looking good (with a 10% discount from friend employee helps a lot!) spec'd as follows...

-Intel® Pentium® M 740(1.73GHz 2MB L2 cache 533MHz FSB)& ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 graphics
-1024MB 400MHz DDR2 RAM (2 x512 MB)

£824 less 10% = £741.60
less 17.5%VAT (able to do this too) = £631.15

That's with a 5400rpm internal drive, but can get it with 7200rpm for £716.18 after all the maths but I'm not sure if it'll be worth it - remember I'll be using fast external drive for my clips anyway. What performance boost if any can I expect from resolume if I get the 7200rpm drive FOR THE SYSTEM DRIVE if I'm using a 7200rpm external already?

BTW - I'd be using 320* qt-mjpeg varying from a few seconds to maybe a couple of minutes but mostly clips in the 10-30 second bracket with sparing use of effects anyway.

Scratch that, getting an Athlon3000+ with 512MB ram (will beef up myself) and pci-e ati card (can't mind which one exactly but irrelevent) and wide black screen for £560 ex-vat.

Fast and future proof. nuff said.