comparison of best notebooks

Comparison of best notebooks

Ambiguity of term „best notebook”

Comparisons like this are always very hard. We could simply

choose the one presenting the best performance, but then we

have to consider things like short battery life, which in terms of

mobile devices, is very painful. Also, the screen size is essential.

Visual experience from games and movies will be the best on 17”

and 18,4” HD displays, but again mobility suffers a lot.

That is why we will split it into 3 categories:

- Best performance/gaming notebooks

- Best mobility/netbooks

- Best economic workstations

What I would like to present are basic rules when choosing notebooks

and traps we have to avoid. For example...

Seen on Allegro.pl

DELL Precision 6500

Strong CPU Intel Core i7-940XM (8M Cache, 4 cores,

2.93 GHz)

Storage: 2x 256GB SSD

Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro® FX 3800M

1024MB

Display: 17" WXGA+ 1440x900 LED backlight

Memory: (4x4096MB) 16 GB

OS: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit

Price: 20.000 PLN

Gaming notebooks

When considering gaming notebooks, the most important is their graphics card. Luckily for us, there is a very good and up to date comparison on this website http://www.notebookcheck.pl/1174.0.html CPU, display's quality and resolution, quantity of memory are on the second place

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Monster

ALIENWARE M17X

Intel Core i7-740QM (4 cores, 1.73-2.93 GHz, 6M

cache)

Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 2 x 5870HD CROSSFIRE

Display: 17,1" WUXGA+ (1920x1200) LED

Memory: 2x4096MB 1333GHZ

Storage: 2x 500GB SATA 7200 rpm

Price: 10.299 PLN

Optical drives: Blu-Ray Combo

ASUS G73JW

Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 460M 1536 MB DDR5


cache) Display: 17,3" FullHD (1920x1200) LED backlight


Storage: 2x 500GB SATA 7200

rpm Optical drives: Blu-Ray Combo

Price: 6.599 PLN

MSI GX660R

Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB DDR5


cache) Display: 15,6" FullHD (1920x1200) LED backlight


Storage: 2x 500GB SATA 7200

rpm Optical drives: Blu-Ray Combo

Price: 5.599 PLN / 4.949PLN no Blu-Ray drive

Best netbooks

Notebooks were invented to allow people to

carry their computers all the time. It is

especially important for businessmen, IT

specialists, who need a computer which is

available whenever they want, not a massive

and discharged gaming station. For them a

totally different criteria are important, that's

why now we will focus on small netbooks, with

long battery lifes.

Small but Beautiful

Intel Atom Dual Core N550 (1.5 GHz, 1 MB cache)

Memory: 1x2048MB DDR3

Display: 10,1" (1024x600) LED

Graphics: Intel GMA 3150x

Storage: 250GB SATA 5400 rpm

OS: Windows 7 Starter 32-bit

Up to 9h working on battery

Price: 1.449 PLN Price: 1.499 PLN

Samsung NF210 ASUS Eee PC 1015 PEM

Price: 1.849 PLN

Graphics: nVidia ION 2

Intel Atom Dual Core D525 (1.8 GHz, 1 MB cache)

Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333MHz)

Display: 12,1" (1366 x 768) LED

Storage: 320GB 5400rpm.


ASUS Eee Pc 1215N

Price: 2.749 PLN

Graphics: Intel GMA X4500

Intel Core i3-380UM (1.33 GHz, 3MB cache)

Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1066MHz)

Display: 11,6" (1366 x 768) LED

Storage: 320GB 5400rpm.


Lenovo ThinkPad Edge i3-380UM

OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

Best economic workstation

Sometimes we just need an efficient,

inexpensive computer to work on. Tiny touchpad

and keys don't satisfy us, since we have to

spend a lot of time by our notebook. It must be

convenient, reliable and (apart from high end

gaming) able to deal with most of our tasks.

Price: 3.199 PLN


Intel Core i7-740QM (1.73 GHz - 2.93 GHz, 6 MB cache)

Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333 MHz)

Display: 15,6" (1366 x 768) LED

Storage: 640GB SATA 5400rpm.

Inspiron 15R ALU

Price: 2.949 PLN


Intel Core i5-460M (2.53 GHz - 2.80 GHz, 3 MB cache)


Display: 17,3" (1600 x 900) LED


Packard Bell LM85-5464G64

Price: 3.299 PLN

Graphics: nVidia GeForce 310M

Intel Core i5-560 (2.66 GHz - 3.20 GHz, 3 MB cache)


Display: 15,6" (1366 x 768) LED


Packard Bell LM85-5464G64

38-months Next Business Day warranty

Price: 2.872 PLN

Graphics: nVidia GeForce GT 330M 1024MB DDR3

Intel Core i5-480M (2.66 GHz, 3 MB Cache)


Display: 17,3" (1600 x 900) LED


Samsung RF710

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Sources:

- http://www.notebookcheck.pl/1174.0.html

- http://www.x-kom.pl/

- http://www.asus.com/

- http://www.benchmark.pl/

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