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Best laptop manufacturer

Which is best based on my price range of 750

  • Acer

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • Asus

    Votes: 17 34.0%

  • Lenovo

    Votes: 4 8.0%

  • MSI

    Votes: 5 10.0%

  • Toshiba

    Votes: 5 10.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 13 26.0%
  • Total voters
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iskor12

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So my question is...should I wait and give mSATA more time to mature, or should I jump into it as soon as I can?

Also, do you think the price is worth the performance?
 
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120 bucks for a 30GB SSD is a decent chunk of money, but it's possible prices could go down. Those SSDs are fairly new after all. I'm just not sure how much they will actually go down if they do.

It's hard to say if it's worth it or not. I can see how it is, and I can see how it isn't. Just depends on how much you use your laptop.

That being said, 120 bucks for a 30GB separate SSD that does 200mb/s read and write, is not a bad price.
 
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I use it every day.....I wonder how much it can improve video edditing. Ive been getting into that lately. That is actually where I see my largest improvement in comparison to my old computer. i7 processor is amazing.

Then back it up with an SSD...I could only imagine the possibilities.

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Intel Q6600 does 9 processes per second in comparison to the i7 that does 23 processes per second in one of the 3dmark Vantage CPU test 2.

Pretty impressive jump. Even while running on battery at a clocked down speed, the i7 still got 19 processes per second.

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Another thing that I have noticed is the i7 definitely uses "hyperthreading". My computer seems to think that it has 8 cores instead of 4
 
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I read through the entire thread and I'm still not sure why I should wait...did you see something I didn't?

The only things that I saw was the speed decreased over time, which is normal with SSD's...but utilizing TRIM helps eliminate that.

As for pci-e not supporting mSATA...well that's true to a point. It all depends on your motherboard. Mine fully supports it and it will show up as if I have 2 hard drives installed in my laptop.

Please tell me what you saw that was bad. I likely missed something...knowing me. :)
 
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Yeah I don't know much about SSDs, but I did read more reviews for regular SSD drives and realized it is normal. So sorry, but I'm still learning too :p

But that aside, I still think 120 bucks for a 30GB ssd at those read rates is very worth it. And if you keep it clean I'm sure the speed decrease would be very minimal.

And yes, that was the only thing that was making me say you should wait, but I know it isn't an issue now.
 
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Ok. You had me confused there. :) I'm definitely learning here too. :)

I'm really tempted to get it...There are some things that I don't know how to do. For instance, I made an image of my HD the instant I got my laptop. I did it both with the program Lenovo provided and also with Windows 7 it's self. My question is....how would I get the original contents of my HD on to the SSD and still have it boot properly? Do you think I will have issues trying to do this? Should I just resort to trying to find some one who has a windows 7 disk and start out fresh?

Many questions like this are rolling through my head. The last thing that I want is a $120 (light) paper weight. LOL
 
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Pretty good link you got there. :) I will have to save that for when the time comes.
 
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ASUS N53SV-SX303V
if i was you i would spend more money because youre going to have it for 2+ years ,,, ASUS N53SV-SX303V ,, this pc is the don my dad has it and it is one of the best out there ... 4gb of ram 2gb of dedicated graphics,intel i5, and full hd screen , its an amazing peice of kit ... you also get a bang and oluffsen intergrated speakers so no more shitty laptop speakers !!! YAY
 
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LSR said:
ASUS N53SV-SX303V
if i was you i would spend more money because youre going to have it for 2+ years ,,, ASUS N53SV-SX303V ,, this pc is the don my dad has it and it is one of the best out there ... 4gb of ram 2gb of dedicated graphics,intel i5, and full hd screen , its an amazing peice of kit ... you also get a bang and oluffsen intergrated speakers so no more shitty laptop speakers !!! YAY
Click to expand...

Read the WHOLE thread. He already bought a nice Lenovo.
 
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The specs on that SSD is amazing....and one of the reviews about the boot up time was hilarious to me. Even the manufacturer's comment was funny.

I have been "Sponsored" by a friendly nerd co-worker to get one of those mSATA SSD's for my laptop in return for some research on it. He decided that he wanted to try out this one, mainly because it's been proven to work without any issues.

Newegg.com - Intel 310 Series (Soda Creek) SSDMAEMC040G2C1 mSATA 40GB mSATA (mini PCIe form factor) MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - SSD

Sequential Access - Read up to 170MB/s
Sequential Access - Write up to 35MB/s

The write speed is rather slow and the read speed definitely isn't the fastest, but the main thing that makes SSDs so fast is the next to nothing seek times.

I will let you guys know what if any difference it makes. I will receive this on Tuesday. I'm not sure if I will have enough time Tuesday night to get everything installed on it though.
 
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Undoubtedly, the best laptop in the world, is this one:
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