Moguri
the MS product got mainly only very bad ratings from what I was able to read about it.
Andrew
wow that is new, last academic year that was not on the market - my fault.
I have never heard of Panda either, but essentially, I think all free anti virus are the same these days. I originally tried AVG, but that gave me problems on Windows 7 and so I tried Avast (which was 2nd on the recommended list that I was reading). If one product introduces something new, all the other products will introduce it in a bid to lure in customers. But avast, (pun intended :P) I’m staying free.
here is much more detailed info on the i5 450M processor which comes in the laptop I’m looking at. It says it has hyperthreading (look at the bottom), but it is only dual core.
ah ops ha? i5 was the chip with hyperthreading deactivated.
it could be that they brought out a new chip version.
andrew
well do most free AV also offer real time protection? last I looked only panda cloudAV was the only one offering both disinfection and realtime protection before getting infected.
Looks like Avast does it now as well - maybe more and more do the others offer that part as well.
what good is an AV when it cannot protect to get infected in the first place.
This is great news.
Avast is generally well received, fast, low resource, and powerful.
I would not buy that system, while they may be calling it an i 5 because it is using the new 32 nm fabrication, everything else about says i 3.
–just clearing up some of this i3/5/7 mess–
originally, i5 was dual core, and i7 was quad core.
then, they added dual core i3’s, and dual and quad core i5’s, and some more quad core i7’s, and then a 6-core i7, which all use 32nm fabrication, instead of the previous 45nm.
then, if I understand correctly, i3 has no HT and no TB, some i5 have HT or TB or both, and i7 has both.
(HT=Hyper Threading, TB=Turbo Boost, a.k.a. automatic overclocking)
so basically, you have to look up the actual specs for each and every processor to know. :mad:
That is interesting. I came into the market for a Quad Core when the i5 was the quad core offering for a laptop. i7 was available but no one had used the mobile chip yet for a laptop.
I was not happy at all with the i5 I had running on a laptop. So I took it back. Two weeks later the i7 came out and I snatched one up.
So if Spacetug is correct. I’d be very careful about what you buy.
I highly recommend installing Blender to a flash drive and taking that into a local store that has laptops. Like a Best Buy or Fry’s, that kind of thing. That is what I did. Try out a system with Blender before you buy. Bring some test scenes. I brought some real processor and graphics intensive scenes. I also brought a Cloth simulation scene.
What I did was went to the fastest desktop and tried that. Then checked out all of the laptops and compared to that. When the i5 was available none of the laptops held up. They all chugged on the bigger scenes.
When I tried out my scenes on the i7 laptop there was negligible difference - in practical everyday performance with scenes that I use!
That is the only benchmark I ever care about.
Check out my comment here http://blenderartists.org/forum/show…4&postcount=28
Originally Posted by <b>Minifig</b> [](http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1614788#post1614788) <i>I just purchased this laptop: [http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+L...&skuId=9736955](http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+Laptop+with+Intel%26%23174%3B+Core%26%23153%3B+i5+Processor+-+Blue/Black/9736955.p?id=1218164036446&skuId=9736955)
Thanks everyone for your help and advice! :yes:
I recently got the last one from Best Buy about 3 days ago. Great hackintosh (got the info at http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind…owtopic=219591), great performance (hope to get gtx 480m mxm card), i5 up to i7 (search results page 2 here:http://gog.is/asus/g60jx/upgrade/i5/to/core/i7 source reports: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus…-possible.html) and gpu upgradability (no sources yet).
I might upgrade the LCD to Dell XPS 16 RGB-LED HD.
Now, comment to which laptop:
Here’s the list to consider that should be included in the laptop:
low budget (450 to 700)
i3 or i5, ATI 56xx or GT 320M
Lenovo, Acer Apsire series, Asus K series or UL80 (hybrid Intel graphics HD and GT 210M cuda)
med-hight budget (prices from 750 to 1200+)
Asus ROG series laptop G51jx, G60jx, or any of the G70’s series. There youtube video for these laptop.
As far as specs go look for the following:
CPU: AMD Phenom II, Intel core i3, i5, i7
GPU: ATI 5600 - 5800, or Nvidia GTX 260M, 360M and/or 480M if it ever ever sales separate for upgrade
Video: RAM DDR3 or DDR5
RAM: DDR3 (still lagging behind gpu mhz)
Optional ports to have: esata, express card slot (if any), hdmi (if any), ieee-1394b 4-pin firewire (if any), lcd res above 1366x768
External display: Dell monitor their on par with Adobe RGB color profile with very fast refresh rate,
For a fact Asus tends to be linux and hackintosh friendly.
Your right about that! In bringing a Blender and test scene on a Flash Drive. Now some BB don’t laptop visiting google search engine or any other site besides their own site (COM’ON BB). Don’t be the paranoid IT manager :eek: locking down every resource.
Whimsycoll,
did you get OS X onto the laptop? How is it running?
Claas
The lowest price for
Asus Eee PC 1005PE
IS that I could find so far is here: