Im thinking of making this my brother's college laptop purchase.
15" SXGA+ (1400x1050) TFT
ATi Radeon 9700 128MB 256bit
Pentium-M (Centrino) 1.7ghz
512MB PC2100 RAM
60GB 5400RPM drive
8xDVD/24xCDRW Combo Drive
3xUSB2, 1xFirewire, 1xParallel, 1xVGAout, 1xSVIDout, 1xSD Memory card reader, 1xPCMCIA, 1xIrda
Built in 802.11b/g wireless
Weight: 6.5lbs
Standard Touchpad+85key Keyboard...
1 LiON battery (PC Mag found it ran 3 hours 46min)
Built in 10/100 NIC
Built in 56k Modem
Realtek AC97 Sound
Windows XP Home Edition
All for a whopping price of $1500, $1579 shipped...
This is from www.velocitymicro.com, the Campus Edition laptop.
Try this link see if it works: http://www.velocitymicro.com/wizard.php?iid=21
Velocitymicro has a good Reseller Rating (RSR) at about 9.00 lifetime.
I was looking around and this same model/chasis is sold by other companies such as PowerNotebooks (9.99 RSR) and GenTech (close to 9.00 RSR).
I was looking into getting it at GenTech since its free shipping and it comes with no OS.
The same specs come out to $1580 shipped with no OS...
Upgrading to the 7200 RPM 60GB drive, though, is cheaper at GenTech, and the 512MB of RAM there is PC2700 as opposed to the PC2100 VelocityMicro offers.
Is there a considerable dropoff in performance from the 1.7ghz Centrino to the 1.5ghz Centrino? Performance In terms of Gaming, general, and battery life. I was thinking of saving $30 on downgrading to the 1.5 model.
What about with the RPM rating on the HD? I was thinking about saving $70 on the hard drive and down grading to the 40 GB model, but at Velocity Micro, its a 4200 RPM model. The 60 GB comes in 5400 and 7200RPM flavors...
My friend was giving me a hard time saying i MUST go with the 7200 model. There was some review site that there is a performance gain of anywhere from 15% to 40% when using the 7200 model over the 5400 model.
15" SXGA+ (1400x1050) TFT
ATi Radeon 9700 128MB 256bit
Pentium-M (Centrino) 1.7ghz
512MB PC2100 RAM
60GB 5400RPM drive
8xDVD/24xCDRW Combo Drive
3xUSB2, 1xFirewire, 1xParallel, 1xVGAout, 1xSVIDout, 1xSD Memory card reader, 1xPCMCIA, 1xIrda
Built in 802.11b/g wireless
Weight: 6.5lbs
Standard Touchpad+85key Keyboard...
1 LiON battery (PC Mag found it ran 3 hours 46min)
Built in 10/100 NIC
Built in 56k Modem
Realtek AC97 Sound
Windows XP Home Edition
All for a whopping price of $1500, $1579 shipped...
This is from www.velocitymicro.com, the Campus Edition laptop.
Try this link see if it works: http://www.velocitymicro.com/wizard.php?iid=21
Velocitymicro has a good Reseller Rating (RSR) at about 9.00 lifetime.
I was looking around and this same model/chasis is sold by other companies such as PowerNotebooks (9.99 RSR) and GenTech (close to 9.00 RSR).
I was looking into getting it at GenTech since its free shipping and it comes with no OS.
The same specs come out to $1580 shipped with no OS...
Upgrading to the 7200 RPM 60GB drive, though, is cheaper at GenTech, and the 512MB of RAM there is PC2700 as opposed to the PC2100 VelocityMicro offers.
Is there a considerable dropoff in performance from the 1.7ghz Centrino to the 1.5ghz Centrino? Performance In terms of Gaming, general, and battery life. I was thinking of saving $30 on downgrading to the 1.5 model.
What about with the RPM rating on the HD? I was thinking about saving $70 on the hard drive and down grading to the 40 GB model, but at Velocity Micro, its a 4200 RPM model. The 60 GB comes in 5400 and 7200RPM flavors...
My friend was giving me a hard time saying i MUST go with the 7200 model. There was some review site that there is a performance gain of anywhere from 15% to 40% when using the 7200 model over the 5400 model.
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