Notebook decisions???

I want to buy a powerful notebook, one has the T7700 and the other has the T7800. The T7800 costs about $500 more is it a good $500 to spend?? The speed of the T7700 is 2.4Ghz while the speed of the T7800 is 2.6Ghz. Is it a good idea to spend $500 more for 200mhz??

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What's the notebook? What are you planning on doing with it? What are the rest of the specs?

I also think you mean an X7800 since the T series stops at the T7700. The X7800 has is unlocked which allows you to adjust the multiplier on the CPU. In other words, you can overclock it without software. So I guess my answer is no unless you want to OC it, but make sure you have the cooling for that.

Message edited by lostandwandering on 10-10-2007 at 06:34:44 AM

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I checked the intel website and their T series stops at T7800~!

http://www.intel.com/products/proc [...] o+tab_spec

Message edited by Custom_Build on 10-10-2007 at 10:13:05 PM

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Huh, thanks for the link. I don't think I've ever seen a T7800. The only 7800 I've seen is the X series, but that just proved me wrong. lol.

I don't think you will see much difference between the two to make the 7800 worth it. I use a T7200 in mine which is 2.00ghz and it does fine for me, I play games like COD2 and BF2142. Just because I am curious now, what laptop are you looking at?

I want to get a Sony Vaio!

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I find Sony's over priced, but that's just me.

Don't take this wrong, but I've always felt that the Vaio's were more hype than substance, I always felt that they were a bit cheap (quality wise, not price wise). My friend had a Vaio desktop, and it was literally made of plastic. Maybe there is a steel frame inside, but the outside was all plastic panelling, including the flaps leading to the drives. Those promptly broke. Now, it was the desktop, and I don't know if the laptops are better, but that experience alone kinda put me off of Sony computers.

Just that if I'm investing that much money into an item, I want it to be one of high quality.

Anyway. About the processor, I don't think that extra 0.2 Ghz is worth that extra 500 bucks...the performance gain simply isn't enough to justify the cost. You can buy another laptop for that much.

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Don't take this wrong, but I've always felt that the Vaio's were more hype than substance, I always felt that they were a bit cheap (quality wise, not price wise). My friend had a Vaio desktop, and it was literally made of plastic.

Sony Vaio's are made of Carbon fiber Casing! They are made of Carbon fiber because they are lighter this way.

Message edited by Custom_Build on 10-11-2007 at 04:50:02 AM

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I wasn't aware that Sony even made desktop systems besides media center pcs.

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Well, apparently they did. I don't know, it had the Vaio logo and all. This ( http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/s [...] Id=1001043 ) looks similar to it, so maybe it was a media center PC. It was my friends desktop computer, anyway. And it broke.

As for the carbon fibre Vaio's, I see them on select ultraportable models. They're expensive, and not particularly powerful either (running Pentium M 1.2 Ghz). I like the carbon fibre idea, but in terms of price for performance right now...yeah.

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