hp p6200 laptop $299 300gig/3gig at office depot

[OBLAMA2009]

orifice depot has this in their ad this week. they are sold out most places but it wouldnt hurt to check around or on the website (or later in the week when they get restock). i think its $350 with $50 rebate=300 which is in brazos territory but much better performance. it has 3 gig so you wouldnt have to get more memory. ive bought hp pentium laptops that are worse than this and they have been pretty good in terms of performance/durability

 

[Macgyversite]

Orifice Depot. R O F L. Sounds like a porn site now don't it. ;-)

 

[allisolm]

You can check your local store availability from here:

http://www.officedepot.com/a/product...Computer-With/

 

[Craig234]

What do people think of it? They're in stock here. The only review on the web site complains that it's slow.

 

[qliveur]

That CPU is roughly equivalent to a Core2 running at 2350MHz. It's no powerhouse, but it's no slouch, either, so any perceived slowness is more than likely due to the hard drive.

 

[Macgyversite]

The CPU is like a disabled C2D. Just a basic Intel CPU without good instruction sets.

http://www.gadgets-freak.biz/intel-pentium-p6200-dual-core-processor-

Here are some options I would look at before buying this.......

I would go with an E350 Fusion processor Laptop at this price point. They run cool, long battery life, and great video performance. Better than the Intel HD by far.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Gateway+...&skuId=2845044

Here is an AMD regular CPU with virtualization laptop.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Dell+-+I...&skuId=2560082

Just some food for thought.

 

[qliveur]

It's a disabled Arrandale, which is the newer Nehalem architecture.

 

[Macgyversite]

As stated in the link address by Gadget Freaks.

I was merely stating it was like a C2D because of qliveur's statement.

Quote "The Intel Pentium processor P6200 is based on Westmere architecture fabricated with 32nm technology. There is an integrated graphics associated with processor but in separate die and graphics die fabricated with 45nm technology. However, PCI express support is there for supporting external graphics or other external hardware."

 

[genietime]

It's a decent laptop.

I've recently purchased a P6200 (think a mildly crippled Arrandale i3) Lenovo and a B940 (think a mildly crippled Sandy Bridge i3) Asus laptop and they are surprisingly capable. Way better than a C2D - without a doubt.

Obviously being packaged with a 5400 rpm 320GB HD hurts, but the CPU and the integrated graphics are better than I expected.

The older P6200 is ok but there are deals for the new Sandy Bridge Pentium based laptops that I think are a better deal. I thought the B940 lappy was noticeably better.

Anyway for $299 it's still a hot deal for a web/e-mail/Word machine. Very capable for that kind of stuff. I purchased for school use for kids and it works very well for that.

My $0.02...

 

[Macgyversite]

Intel at this price point has a disadvantage or I guess to put it better since I am an AMD fan. You need to know what you are going to use the laptop for mostly.

The AMD Fusion E processors video processing crushes the Sandybridge video processing while the Intel CPU processing crushes the E series CPU processing.

I believe in the "little engine that could" and since most people at this price point type, watch, and surf instead of compile, crunch, and edit. To me this makes the AMD a wiser choice.

For instance. Try and Run Starcraft 2 on the OP's machine. It doesn't do it well at all. I know for certain that the AMD variation will run it albeit at low settings and only up to a 2 vs 2.

One thing is certain. If you have the money and skillz. Throw in a SSD (solid state drive) and both laptops will be way better as far as performance.

Also the AMD users need to watch for laptops using 1 dimm of ram installs. The E series runs way better on fast dual channel ram.

 

[Nintendesert]

So is the E series one a single core or dual core?


http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....3332167&loc=01

 

[Macgyversite]

Dual core at 1.6ghz.

Now if you can spend $450. This AMD A core Laptop can play Starcraft 2 at high settings.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+...&skuId=2971032

 

[Nintendesert]

Well I was looking for something really inexpensive for a family member that needs a new laptop. That $299 looks like what I need. Gaming won't really be involved but a lot of stuff using that GPU more and more, flash and the browsers etc.

 

[Macgyversite]

Thats the ticket. They run SOOOO cool to. Barely get warm in your lap. My son gets 4+ hours battery life working the laptop hard with his.

 

[Vesku]

Also the AMD users need to watch for laptops using 1 dimm of ram installs. The E series runs way better on fast dual channel ram.

E series is single channel only isn't it? So it's more about hitting the 4GB sweet spot I would think.

 

[Macgyversite]

Yes you are correct.

AMD E-Series E-300


The AMD E-300 (codename Zacate) is a dual core processor for small notebooks and netbooks. It offers a relatively powerful integrated graphics card and a single channel DDR3-1066 memory controller.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Also the AMD users need to watch for laptops using 1 dimm of ram installs. The E series runs way better on fast dual channel ram.

I was pretty certain that Brazos is a single-channel architecture. Unless there is some sort of difference between desktop and laptop E-350 CPUs.

Edit: Oops, I see that this has already been covered.

 

[Macgyversite]

I think my brain was confusing the A core fusions that use dual channel and can use Crossfire combining the chipset and dedicated graphics together.

I would gather that 4 GB of ram for the E cores is probably the sweet spot as stated above.