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Which of these two?

gorcorps

gorcorps

aka Brandon
Okay guys, I'm planning on getting a notebook this summer and I think I have narrowed it down to 2 here.

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_techspecs_full.php/masterid=15660812
http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_techspecs_full.php/masterid=16310448

Both are Acer, the first is a little cheaper. Both have what I really want, a dvd burner, 1 gig memory, and a dedicated video card. The rest I'm not sure what's better for me. I'd like to game a little bit but not much past CS:S. It's mostly for movies and work. The differences are:

1st one:
CPU: 1.8 GHz Turion 64
HDD: 120GB
video: mobility Radeon x700

2nd one:
CPU: 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo
HDD: 100GB SATA
video: mobility Radeon x1400
memory: DDR2

Is the 2nd one be that much faster? It seems like it would but I'm not sure.
 
Get the second one for sure. The Core Duo will help in multitasking a lot and won't be much/any slower in normal single-threaded applications. Also DDR2 SODIMM's are dirt cheap right now.

Unfortunately the GPU is a bit weaker in the 2nd one. The MR X1400 is equivalent to the MR X600, both of which are 4 pipeline GPU's. The MR X700 is an 8 pipeline GPU and its replacement is the 12 pipeline MR X1600.
 
So would the x1400 even come close to the 9800 pro I use on the desktop now? It only has half the pipes, but I don't know what else goes into the whole process.
 
GPU's do have a lot of elements that go into performance. I believe the majority of it revolves around pixel pipelines, render output pipelines (ROPs), shader/ALU units, data bus width, and clock speed. On top of it is how efficiently these different components work together and interact, but you can get a good idea by comparing the specs listed above.

I believe the 9800 Pro desktop card would still spank the X1400. The 9800 Pro was clocked pretty high and had 8 pixel pipelines, whereas the X1400 only has 4 pixel pipelines and I believe comparable clocks.

For an idea on how the X1400 performs, look here:
http://www.laptoplogic.com/resources/detail.php?id=37
 
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