I´m buying a dell inspiron 9100 laptop and I´m in doubt about the hardware config.
What would be best for resolume playback:
- ATI 9700 128M and 60G 7200rpm HD
or
- ATI 9800 256M ahd 40G 5400rpm HD
unfortunatly I can´t have both - the best card and HD. So witch setup would play smoothier resolume?
i would go for the ATI 9700 128M and 60G 7200rpm HD, but read the config very carefully.
much things in a lappie are different from desktop pc's like speedstep for the processor, hd speed, video memory sharing with RAM and stuff like that.
De-x-ter's got a point.
i dont know under what type of circumstances u are buying the lappie, but a dell computer is kinda short on options.
since it only supplies a couple of brands of hardware.
it is cheaper than the rest but if it doesnt fit your need exactly its a lot of money for something u cant use to full extend...
and if u let someone else than dell build-in your other hd u are screwed guarantee wise...
Today I got a Compaq PIV 2.5G, 512, HD 40G 4.200 rpm, ATI 345 with 64M shared memory.
I´m choosing this Dell because it´s the one that best suits my needs. It´s a PIV 3G, 512RAM, and has this 2 options of video card: ATI9700 and 9800. Many laptops more expensive don´t have these cards.
My actual compaq can´t handle 3 layers in resolume without getting slower playback.
That´s why I´m trying to choose the best config. I need to know what would give me the best performance: a better video card or a HD with a higher speed. For me this config is very good and I won´t need to extend it (don´t even know what I could extend).
About the options of Dell, for me they are fine, since it has everything I need. What could be better?
normal firewire = +- 400 mbit
newer firewire (only on macs till now) = +- 800 mbit...
why is firewire plus/minus 400? i thought, that using firewire means having always the full rate and only with USB, it is deending on how many devices you are using... am i wrong?
1. You will not see any performances differences between Firewire and USB2 with an external HDD during your Live performance.
2. Desktop Internal 8mb 7200r U133 HDD are cheapper, UBS2/Firewire box for IDE HDD are cheapper too.
Build it yourself. (you can upgrade your HDD later on... or the box)