Comparison of best notebooks
Ambiguity of term best notebook Comparisons like this are always very hard. We could simply choose the one presenting the best performance, but then we have to consider things like short battery life, which in terms of mobile devices, is very painful. Also, the screen size is essential. Visual experience from games and movies will be the best on 17 and 18,4 HD displays, but again mobility suffers a lot. That is why we will split it into 3 categories: - Best performance/gaming notebooks - Best mobility/netbooks - Best economic workstations What I would like to present are basic rules when choosing notebooks and traps we have to avoid. For example...
Seen on Allegro.pl DELL Precision 6500 Strong CPU Intel Core i7-940xm (8M Cache, 4 cores, 2.93 GHz) Storage: 2x 256GB SSD Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M 1024MB Display: 17" WXGA+ 1440x900 LED backlight Memory: (4x4096MB) 16 GB OS: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit Price: 20.000 PLN
Gaming notebooks When considering gaming notebooks, the most important is their graphics card. Luckily for us, there is a very good and up to date comparison on this website http://www.notebookcheck.pl/1174.0.html CPU, display's quality and resolution, quantity of memory are on the second place
Monster ALIENWARE M17X Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 2 x 5870HD CROSSFIRE Intel Core i7-740qm (4 cores, 1.73-2.93 GHz, 6M cache) Display: 17,1" WUXGA+ (1920x1200) LED Memory: 2x4096MB 1333GHZ Storage: 2x 500GB SATA 7200 rpm Optical drives: Blu-Ray Combo Price: 10.299 PLN
ASUS G73JW Graphics: nvidia GeForce GTX 460M 1536 MB DDR5 Intel Core i7-740qm (4 cores, 1.73-2.93 GHz, 6M cache) Display: 17,3" FullHD (1920x1200) LED backlight Memory: 4x2048MB 1333GHZ Storage: 2x 500GB SATA 7200 rpm Optical drives: Blu-Ray Combo Price: 6.599 PLN
MSI GX660R Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB DDR5 Intel Core i7-740qm (4 cores, 1.73-2.93 GHz, 6M cache) Display: 15,6" FullHD (1920x1200) LED backlight Memory: 2x4096MB 1333GHZ Storage: 2x 500GB SATA 7200 rpm Optical drives: Blu-Ray Combo Price: 5.599 PLN / 4.949PLN no Blu-Ray drive
Best netbooks Notebooks were invented to allow people to carry their computers all the time. It is especially important for businessmen, IT specialists, who need a computer which is available whenever they want, not a massive and discharged gaming station. For them a totally different criteria are important, that's why now we will focus on small netbooks, with long battery lifes.
Small but Beautiful Samsung NF210 ASUS Eee PC 1015 PEM Intel Atom Dual Core N550 (1.5 GHz, 1 MB cache) Memory: 1x2048MB DDR3 Display: 10,1" (1024x600) LED Graphics: Intel GMA 3150x Price: 1.449 PLN Storage: 250GB SATA 5400 rpm OS: Windows 7 Starter 32-bit Up to 9h working on battery Price: 1.499 PLN
ASUS Eee Pc 1215N Intel Atom Dual Core D525 (1.8 GHz, 1 MB cache) Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333MHz) Display: 12,1" (1366 x 768) LED Graphics: nvidia ION 2 Storage: 320GB 5400rpm. Up to 7h working on battery Price: 1.849 PLN
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge i3-380um Intel Core i3-380um (1.33 GHz, 3MB cache) Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1066MHz) Display: 11,6" (1366 x 768) LED Graphics: Intel GMA X4500 Storage: 320GB 5400rpm. OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Up to 7h working on battery Price: 2.749 PLN
Best economic workstation Sometimes we just need an efficient, inexpensive computer to work on. Tiny touchpad and keys don't satisfy us, since we have to spend a lot of time by our notebook. It must be convenient, reliable and (apart from high end gaming) able to deal with most of our tasks.
Inspiron 15R ALU Intel Core i7-740qm (1.73 GHz - 2.93 GHz, 6 MB cache) Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1024 MB DDR3 Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333 MHz) Display: 15,6" (1366 x 768) LED Storage: 640GB SATA 5400rpm. Price: 3.199 PLN
Packard Bell LM85-5464G64 Intel Core i5-460m (2.53 GHz - 2.80 GHz, 3 MB cache) Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1024 MB DDR3 Memory: 2x4096 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333 MHz) Display: 17,3" (1600 x 900) LED Storage: 640GB SATA 5400rpm. Price: 2.949 PLN
Packard Bell LM85-5464G64 Intel Core i5-560 (2.66 GHz - 3.20 GHz, 3 MB cache) Graphics: nvidia GeForce 310M Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333 MHz) Display: 15,6" (1366 x 768) LED Storage: 500GB SATA 7200rpm. 38-months Next Business Day warranty Price: 3.299 PLN
Samsung RF710 Intel Core i5-480m (2.66 GHz, 3 MB Cache) Graphics: nvidia GeForce GT 330M 1024MB DDR3 Memory: 2x2048 MB (SODIMM DDRAM3, 1333 MHz) Display: 17,3" (1600 x 900) LED Storage: 640GB SATA 5400rpm. OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Price: 2.872 PLN
Sources: - http://www.notebookcheck.pl/1174.0.html - http://www.x-kom.pl/ - http://www.asus.com/ - http://www.benchmark.pl/ Radosław Kotaba EAIiE Electronics & Telecommunications I year