$1850 vs. $1850: Benchmarks
04:30 - Wednesday 11 June 2008
by
Marcel Binder
In order to give you an idea of what you can expect for a certain price, we compared the Acer Aspire 6920G-814G32BN, which is available through online shops for about $1850, with a desktop system of the same price. The results are not surprising, but they can serve as a guideline if you are still unsure of which system is right for you.
Acer 6920G-814G32BN
Platform| Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (45 nm; 2100 MHz, 3 MB L2 Cache)
| Mobile Intel PM965 Express Chipset
| 2x 2048 MB DDR2-667 SDRAM
| Western Digital WD3200BEVT | 320 GB, 5,400 RPM, 8 MB Cache, SATA2/300 Blu-ray Disc Drive with DVD-SuperMulti | BD-R/-RE/-ROM/DVD+-RW/+R DL/RAM Intel 4965AGN WLAN (802.11a/g/n) Mini-card
| 16″ Widescreen WXGA LCD (1366x768) Acer CineCrystal
| Nvidia GeForce 9500M-GS 512 MB dedicated VRAM
| Integrated
| 4400 mAh Primary Battery
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|---|
System Software & Drivers| Windows Vista Enterprise 6.0 Build 6001 SP1
| 10
| Intel Version 8.2.0.1014
| Nvidia Display Drivers 174.51 (7.15.11.7451)
| |
|---|
Tom’s Hardware personal configuration
System Hardware| Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (45 nm, 3.00 GHz, 6 MB L2 Cache)
| Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R, Rev. 1.0
| Intel P35, BIOS: F3B
| 2x 2GB DDR2-800 G.Skill F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ
| Samsung SH-D163A, SATA150
| Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750 GB, 7,200 RPM, 32MB Cache, SATA2/300
| GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
| Zalman, ATX 2.01, 510 Watt
| |
|---|
System Software & Drivers| Windows Vista Enterprise 6.0 Build 6001 SP1
| 10
| Intel Version 8.2.0.1014
| Nvidia Display Drivers 169.75
| |
|---|
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Most notebooks I've seen won't let you eject the CD when it's turned off except using a paperclip in that tiny hole, which is something you can do on a desktop drive anyway.
8800GTS 320 seems an unusual choice...
This is obviously a newbie article. You could easily build a far superior machine than the one specced out here.
For example I have just bought a new budget gamer machine (own build)
680i SLI mobo
single 8800GT (for now)
2 GB of dominator xr2 1066 ddr2 (who needs 4 GB if you have no intention of running vista EVER)
Q6600 2.4GHz Quad intel (soon to be oc'd to ~3.2GHz)
funky case, extra large dia fans, 3rd party cooler, etc etc etc.
(will reuse old HDD's for the mo'. I had to get this past the wife so this concession was made)
Comes in at £445 or ~ $870 US
Being conservative and adding £60 to get a 500GB HDD that still is only ~$995 US
And this system will smack the quoted one around like a dirty Biatch in games productivity etc.
As mentioned the beauty of a desktop system is upgradability. For the $1800 US you could get dual 3870x2 in quad crossfire, multiple TB's HDD's etc.
This is article is for the Sucker Chump looking for new stuff that performs worse than cream of the last crop but for a higher price cause its new (the same people who buy new cars and sell them a year later to get a newer car, talk about throwing money away), and for advertising hard to shift stock, 8800GTS 320's anyone?
To the same extent, you can get a much better suited gaming laptop for the money. A 8800m gtx would be much better than the 9500m card they're using.
"If watching movies on the go is important to you, then a DVD-ROM drive and a sizable screen are musts" - Its 2008 now, do they actually make laptops without dvd drives? Apart from the macbook air, i think every new laptop has at least got a dvd drive.
I got an Asus Z7000 laptop with an ATI X700 128 meg video card and 1.5 GB ram and Pentium-M 1.7 GHz for £160 GBP with a years warranty! It has a 15.4 WXGA screen and quadruphonic sound. It didn't have a HDD or optical drive so I installed my own hdd. Unfortunately my DVDRW drive does not fit the ultrabay connection so I use my usb to ide adapter and psu so connect a desktop pc dvdrw drive via usb and the transfer rate is fast (usb 2.0) and the drive is seen in the cmos setup at bootup so excellent!
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Chris.
BARGAIN. where did you get that deal. I'd get me one.
Hi there!
I got it on ebay.co.uk and they only post to the UK but you could check. It was at the ebay.co.uk shop spiredream trading in Oxfordshire near Oxford.
Hope you can find it as they sell many units. Search for barebone or barebones.
Chris.