You already knew that
Toshiba was doling out the HD DVD love to the
X205, but a purported Satellite X200 machine has apparently been apprehended by a Frenchman (or woman) and revealed to the world. Reportedly, this "desktop replacement" starts off with a 17-inch 1,440 x 900 resolution LCD, and packs a 2GHz Intel
Core 2 Duo T7300, a 256MB
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT, 2GB of RAM, a 200GB hard drive spinning at 4200RPMs, Harmon Kardon speakers, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, a DVD burner, 1.3-megapixel camera, hordes of USB 2.0 connectors, fingerprint reader, an ExpressCard slot, and even a numeric keypad thrown in for good measure. While we've seen nothing official, word on the street has this bad boy landing next month for around €1,599 ($2,147), but for now, click on through for the rest of the show.
posted Jun 22nd 2007 12:20PM
Revolutions per minutes?
@ Alvin
it is a measurement of how slow the HDD spins.
um... don't you mean how fast the hard drive spins? People don't usually ask how stinks, they ask how it smells.
Anyways is the Geforce 8700 GT much better than the 8600 GT? Will a Core 2 Duo running at 2.2ghz with the same amount of ram and a 120gb 5400rpm hdd with a 8600 GT be able to render the image the Satellite x200 is rendering here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_per_minute
Actualy, how slow is more apropriate considering the speed of the drive.
he was referring to the "s" at the end of "RPM", which doesn't need to be pluralized.
it's not a big deal, really.
*Cue Anya Major with sledgehammer*
revolutions per millisecond?
I didn't know they made 17 inch displays with such a low resolution.
And a 4200 rpm hard drive .. where did they find one that slow?? I hope it's a ytpo and they meant 7200.
I do appreciate the decent graphics card though.
Have you checked laptop specs for the past few years?
4200, 5400 and I think they even have one in the 3000, have been a common trend. Lower the speed, the less energy it consumes, which is the selling point for these drives in a lot of laptop. Unless you are doing a lot of raw and massive data access, these drives will be perfectly fine.
A sluggish but energy-saving 4200 RPM drive is all well and good for notebooks where battery life is a big competitive selling point, but in a massive 17" "desktop replacement" laptop? Thats just silly. 4200 RPM is heinously slow, the performance and usability difference between that and a 7200 RPM drive in the same computer is usually quite stark so long as the system isn't otherwise bottlenecked. I've plopped a number of 7200 RPM Hitachis into older dell insparons to great effect. I would gladly loose 20 or 40 gigabytes off the drive in that Toshiba in exchange for some decent speed.
If it has almost the exact same specifications as the HP Pavilion dv9500t, why is it so much more expensive?
Wow, are you people thick or what? You completely misinterpreted Alvin's post and managed to have an entire conversion from this misinterpretation. He's fully aware of what RPM means. He's saying that the plural version of the terms (RPMs) doesn't make any sense. The author typed 4200RPMs instead of 4200RPM which doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Alvin was not asking what revolutions per minute means, he's merely poking fun at the author for using the wrong terms (RPMs instead of RPM).
Obviously, the RPMs refers to the rotational acceleration of the drive platters as they attempt to break loose and decapitate their owner.
i have one of these I got last week (X205-S9349). Still have the huge"battle ready game enabled" sticker on it, which makes no sense ( no one can tell me what it means.. its just spam?)
yeah and why want a 7200 rpm driver ina laptop? kinda useless having one that speed sounds like ur using it to transfer alot of data back and fourth.. laptop shouldn't be doing that...
also it comes with a t7100 not 7300.. only the X205-S9359 comes with the t7300...
itsa great laptop tho love the subwoofer altho i use headphones