Notebook GPU worth the price difference?

[nadirshakur]

The only real difference I see between these two are the NVIDIA GO 7400 128MB Vs. ATI® MOBILITY? RADEON® X1400. Is it worth the price difference?

Acer Aspire 5672WLMiAcer Aspire 5672WLMi
Vs.
Asus V6J-X009P

 

[Philippine Mango]

Those are both Bleh video cards....

 

[DeathReborn]

Acer has 2GB Ram, ASUS has 1GB.

Acer has 120GB HDD, ASUS has 100GB.

Acer native resolution = 1280x800, ASUS native resolution = 1400X1050.

Acer has a 5-in-1 card reader, ASUS does not.


The price difference is huge for not a huge amount of difference. Get the Acer as in my opinon it's the better value for money option.

 

[lazybum131]

The video cards perform about the same. If you're going for bang for your buck the Acer is the better choice since it's full of features for quite a bit less.

The Asus is in a different class, it's lighter, thinner and much sleeker looking. It has a magnesium alloy lid and a brushed aluminium palmrest. I believe the rest of the casing would be carbon fibre reinforced plastic. It has a 4-in-1 card reader, DeathReborn is mistaken that it doesn't have one. It doesn't have DVI or S-Video out ports while the 5672 does however.

 

[ND40oz]

I'd be leary of purchasing a 15.4" laptop that only has a resolution of 1280x800. Those are awefully big pixels, but the price is pretty good.

 

[alimoalem]

$570 is way too much of a price difference

 

[nadirshakur]

sanxalod What's the best performing mobile CPU? I heard the Turion's are good.

 

[Luckyboy1]

Laptop people hate to hear this, but it's still true. anything, and I mean just about anything from video to hard drives to ram can be done cheaper, faster, better, more trouble free in a PC than an laptop. try to remember that a desktop is already miniturized. A laptop is a mini-me thingy and as a result, technical limitations in materials get to be problematic faster than with a desktop PC. Personally, in this case, I'd stay ATI.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: Luckyboy1
Laptop people hate to hear this, but it's still true. anything, and I mean just about anything from video to hard drives to ram can be done cheaper, faster, better, more trouble free in a PC than an laptop. try to remember that a desktop is already miniturized. A laptop is a mini-me thingy and as a result, technical limitations in materials get to be problematic faster than with a desktop PC. Personally, in this case, I'd stay ATI.

This not a laptop bashing thread.

I agree with DeathReborn, the Acer is of much better value, and IINW Radeon X1400 > Geforce 7300.

 

[nadirshakur]

Ya I think I am going with the Acer, like you said "bang 4 buck". But just out of curiousity do you know somewhere I can compare different mobile CPU features?

 

[Luckyboy1]

Not bashing anything... just pointing out that you gotta pay big for any small increase after a point with laptops. this is true of desktops as well, but it happens much later along the rise in the hardware food chain.

 

[nadirshakur]

I agree Luckyboy1, trust me I would not get a laptop if I had the choice. I read some reviews on the on the Duo's they seem quite juicy. Anybody have some first hand experience with them?

 

[Luckyboy1]

Well, some folks are kinda stuck with a laptop due to going to school or travelling in business and don't have the money for both a decent laptop and a first class desktop gaming machine. All I'm saying is don't get crazy about a couple of frames per second in a laptop. I mean this from a price standpoint vs. performance you get for the empty pockets. You can spend like $4,000.00 U.S. and get a very decent gaming laptop. The same performance can be purchased in a desktop for 1/3 the cost. It's just that you reach that point of diminishing returns in laptops sooner than you do desktops.

No laptop bashing here! Just trying to help the guy gain some relative perspective on what he's buying. Most people have their brain engaged on 1:1 laptops vs. destops as far as where that sweet spot is on cost vs. performance and that simply is not the case. You reach it faster in laptops, that's all.