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Hootsmon
Joined: 22 Jan 2008
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 Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject: Your Opinion on this Laptop? |
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Good afternoon!
Was wondering if any of you experts could give me some advice. There's a laptop computer for sale that I'm interested in - second-hand, about a year old and, seemingly, with no scratches or marks or anything.
The details are as followses:
LG X-NOTE P2 G7200
Windows XP SP2
Intel Core Duo T7200 (2,0Ghz),
LCD 15,4 inch wide, 2,56kg
memory 1GB, HDD 80GB, VGA - Radeon x1400
ODD - Combo
It's going for about 550,000 won, with a laptop bag thrown in.
Now my current laptop is over 3 years old, not dual-core or anything, about 1.7Ghz with 2gig of Ram and a 60 gig hard drive. I have no idea what the graphics card is because it's that rubbish (a Toshiba).
What I'm wondering is if it's worth me upgrading to the one there. I don't know much about computers these days so I don't know if the graphics card is very good or if the processor is much faster. I know I could probably pick up a new laptop at Yongsan for a little bit more, so I'm also wondering if it would be worthwhile doing that.
In case anyone's wondering, I don't require anything too special. I don't use my laptop for gaming at all just now (though if I had a better laptop, I might start) and mostly I just want to upgrade because my current piece of junk is falling apart and takes forever just to open a word document.
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Spend another 300,000 and get something new and better. |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
| Spend another 300,000 and get something new and better. |
Looks like he just wants to surf the web and write documents.
That laptop is fine, albeit expensive as hell for what you get. |
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Hootsmon
Joined: 22 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Bloopity Bloop wrote: |
| cj1976 wrote: |
| Spend another 300,000 and get something new and better. |
Looks like he just wants to surf the web and write documents.
That laptop is fine, albeit expensive as hell for what you get. |
At the moment, this is pretty much all I do...but if I got a better laptop, I'd probably do some gaming. I have to do video editing for work sometimes to, though rarely.
Thanks for the comments so far. Basically, I don't want to make the same mistake I made 3 years ago when I chose a bad laptop and didn't get my money's worth. I don't mind paying a bit extra if I'm getting something worth the cash...just don't want to be paying over the odds. Value-for-money is what I'm thinking. Don't mind the money being a bit more if the value is a lot more.
And it sounds like, so far, this one I'm looking at isn't exactly a bargain... |
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ekul
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
Location: [Mod Edit]
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| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| It's pretty crappy for the price. Wait a month and pick up one of the new generation netbooks with the ION chipset and windows 7, basically you can everything you need and play most old games (read not crysis). That's what I'm doing anyway. |
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Kryten
Joined: 10 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:31 am Post subject: |
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Hey ekul, are you referring to the N280 processor?
Currently all netbooks have the Atom N270. I've always liked the idea of netbooks and always kept an eye on them, but I'd need something with a little more processing power for me to pick one up. My GF needs a new computer and I was contemplating getting her a netbook. From comparing the specs of the two processors below, there doesn't seem to be a huge leap.
N270: 1.6 GHz, 533 MHz FSB
N280: 1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB
So how will the ION chipsets help boost a netbook's performance? |
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tatertot
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Kryten wrote: |
Hey ekul, are you referring to the N280 processor?
Currently all netbooks have the Atom N270. I've always liked the idea of netbooks and always kept an eye on them, but I'd need something with a little more processing power for me to pick one up. My GF needs a new computer and I was contemplating getting her a netbook. From comparing the specs of the two processors below, there doesn't seem to be a huge leap.
N270: 1.6 GHz, 533 MHz FSB
N280: 1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB
So how will the ION chipsets help boost a netbook's performance? |
No, the ION chipset is a graphics solution from Nvidia, not an improved CPU. They will still have the same slow Atom CPU unless you get one of the netbooks with the low voltage Core 2 Duos (like in the Acer Timeline series) |
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ekul
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Kryten wrote: |
Hey ekul, are you referring to the N280 processor?
Currently all netbooks have the Atom N270. I've always liked the idea of netbooks and always kept an eye on them, but I'd need something with a little more processing power for me to pick one up. My GF needs a new computer and I was contemplating getting her a netbook. From comparing the specs of the two processors below, there doesn't seem to be a huge leap.
N270: 1.6 GHz, 533 MHz FSB
N280: 1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB
So how will the ION chipsets help boost a netbook's performance? |
Not all netbooks have the N270 at all. The other half picked up the 1005ha eee pc from yongsan two weeks ago and that has the N280. For what she needs it for it's fine, but I'd like to watch more HD stuff, stream to a TV and perhaps play a few old school games. For that an ION chipset will be perfect. ION pretty much means an onboard Nvidia GeForce 9400M, although you need to make sure you get the right one, there's an ION LE that's less powerful and only supports DX9. The CPU will definitely be the bottle neck on these machines, but they are not intended for modern gaming anyway.
Don't quote me on it, but I think right now the only netbooks with ION are 12.1 and 11.6inch, I don't think there is a 10.1inch ION netbook out there yet. I think manufacturers are holding back for windows 7. |
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