What do you think about new ECS Pentium 4 laptop(notebook)???

[mercutio11]

Hi,
I just wanna ask you a couple of questions.
I found this P4 lappy from ECS (I-Buddie 4). It looks good to me. It supports up to 2.8ghz northwood core Pentium 4, DDR266/PC 2100 system memory, 15.0" SXGA+, IEEE 1394, USB 2.0, and etc. etc... The odd thing is I've never seen PC2100 DDR SDRAM for mobile. Does it mean I-Buddie 4 support PC2100 DDR (184-pin DIMM)? not 144-pin SODIMM?

Personally, i've never used ECS products before. How good is SiS 650 & SiS 961 chipset and built-in SiS 315 graphic core (AGP 4x)? I'm a little bit concern about the graphic core.. How fast is this graphic core compare to ATI Radeon, Geforce2Go, and Geforce 440 4Go? According to the ECS, graphic core support "High performance 256bit 3D graphics engine up to 143MHz 3D engine clock speed" and "Share Memory Architecture supports up to 64MB DDR frame buffer".
I would appreciate it if you give me any advice.
Thank you.

 

[Vegito]

it looks like they're using a desktop version for a notebook.... intel put out a memo on this.. dont do it.. it will cause heat problem.. use intel-m processor

 

[Wolfsraider]

<< it looks like they're using a desktop version for a notebook.... intel put out a memo on this.. dont do it.. it will cause heat problem.. use intel-m processor >>



DITTO

and since you asked about video>do you really want to go with some unknown card?

I would say do more homework before even thinking about a setup such as this


when you spend your money make sure you know what your getting and make sure you get what you want


hope this helps

 

[Rand]

Their using desktop P4's with no support for SpeedStep etc.
Battery life is going to be absolutely abhorrid, and it's going to be an extremely got notebook.

And in such an environment as notebook's wherein cooling is extremely limited and without any support for SpeedStep you can expect the P4 processor will most likely be forced to thermally down-clock the processor to half it's rated frequency.

If you want a P4 laptop wait until the real notebook P4's are available... don't be fooled into purchasing a notebook with a desktop processor of any type.

 

[Jejunum]

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<< it looks like they're using a desktop version for a notebook.... intel put out a memo on this.. dont do it.. it will cause heat problem.. use intel-m processor >>



thats just what intel wants u to believe; a good majority of the lappies sold in the UK used .18 micron coppermine p3's w/ 2 hr battery lifes.

sure they were hot and didnt have speedstep; but for 300-500 dollars less who cares....

just imho

 

[Rand]

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<< it looks like they're using a desktop version for a notebook.... intel put out a memo on this.. dont do it.. it will cause heat problem.. use intel-m processor >>



thats just what intel wants u to believe; a good majority of the lappies sold in the UK used .18 micron coppermine p3's w/ 2 hr battery lifes.

sure they were hot and didnt have speedstep; but for 300-500 dollars less who cares....

just imho >>



Remember the PIII consumed significantly less power then the P4 though, even in the Northwood varient and ran a fair bit cooler though.
It was do-able with the PIII, though not recommended... top run a desktop P4 in a notebook though is definitely not adviseable.

 

[Leon]

They should put Itanium in there

 

[Jejunum]

<< Remember the PIII consumed significantly less power then the P4 though, even in the Northwood varient and ran a fair bit cooler though. >>



yah definately agree
but i think a northwood (someone link me to the power specs) @ 1.6ghz is no worse (but slower heh) than an athlon @ 1.2 ghz
course the athlon has decent battery life cauze of powernow!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

you mean my tbird notebook caught on fire because of the cpu?!?!?!?

damn!