which to buy

viperassasin · 01-12-2006, 06:44 AM

I'm am stuck making a decsicion between two computers a gateway nx200s or Dell B130 the main difference I can see so far is with the dell i get a 5400 rpm hard drive. the gateway has only 4200 rpm hard drive. The gateway uses the extreme force graphics and dell uses intel accelerated graphics accelorator. The gateway comes with 15 inch screen dell 14. dell has 512 mb of physical memory and the gateway only 256mb. and i think the gateway might have the 8x cd burner and the dell only has the 4x not sure though. with the gateway like it is would be cheaper by about forty bucks. So some opinions what you think you would choose would be very helpful.

tractorboy · 01-12-2006, 05:24 PM

are these new or used PCs ?
what OS do they come with ?

LaptopExtreme · 01-12-2006, 05:30 PM

I'd get the gateway. It's small and very stylish. It's got a better GPU, too - something that you can't upgrade. As for more memory, I'd just get another stick and drop it in later.

tractorboy · 01-12-2006, 07:20 PM

oops another notebook, sorry thought I was in desktop forum, isn't the speed of the cd burners slow , even for a notebook, no dvd burning capabilities ?

LaptopExtreme · 01-12-2006, 07:36 PM

It's actually a combo drive. The Gateway's burner should be up to 24X and maybe that 8x is for the DVD read.

tractorboy · 01-12-2006, 08:29 PM

oh, you are probably right

viperassasin · 01-13-2006, 12:22 AM

we are talking brand new laptops and what is gpu

TheChef · 01-13-2006, 12:23 AM

GPU is teh Graphics Processing Unit, the video card in other terms.

viperassasin · 01-13-2006, 12:35 AM

your telling me i can't put a different video card in my laptop. and these are both new right out of the box which come with windows xp home which is no biggy because i already have xp pro upgrade disk. and the dell from the sounds of will boot faster than the gateway because of the higher 5400 rpm vs the 4200 rpm hard drive that dell has that is what is making it so hard because the gateway will cost more if i decide to go upgrading parts.

TheChef · 01-13-2006, 12:40 AM

No, you probably can't upgrade the GPU in your laptop.

The Dell will boot faster? What makes you think that?

01-12-2006, 06:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
viperassasin New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 5	which to buy I'm am stuck making a decsicion between two computers a gateway nx200s or Dell B130 the main difference I can see so far is with the dell i get a 5400 rpm hard drive. the gateway has only 4200 rpm hard drive. The gateway uses the extreme force graphics and dell uses intel accelerated graphics accelorator. The gateway comes with 15 inch screen dell 14. dell has 512 mb of physical memory and the gateway only 256mb. and i think the gateway might have the 8x cd burner and the dell only has the 4x not sure though. with the gateway like it is would be cheaper by about forty bucks. So some opinions what you think you would choose would be very helpful.

01-12-2006, 05:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
tractorboy Gold Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 258	are these new or used PCs ? what OS do they come with ? __________________ Win XP Prof Win 2003 --------------- A+ MCP NASDA CERT SCUBA Diver >>PCs underwater ?

01-12-2006, 07:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
tractorboy Gold Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 258	oops another notebook, sorry thought I was in desktop forum, isn't the speed of the cd burners slow , even for a notebook, no dvd burning capabilities ? __________________ Win XP Prof Win 2003 --------------- A+ MCP NASDA CERT SCUBA Diver >>PCs underwater ?

01-12-2006, 08:29 PM	#6 (permalink)
tractorboy Gold Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 258	oh, you are probably right __________________ Win XP Prof Win 2003 --------------- A+ MCP NASDA CERT SCUBA Diver >>PCs underwater ?

01-13-2006, 12:23 AM	#8 (permalink)
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01-12-2006, 05:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
LaptopExtreme VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 880	I'd get the gateway. It's small and very stylish. It's got a better GPU, too - something that you can't upgrade. As for more memory, I'd just get another stick and drop it in later.

01-12-2006, 07:36 PM	#5 (permalink)
LaptopExtreme VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 880	It's actually a combo drive. The Gateway's burner should be up to 24X and maybe that 8x is for the DVD read.

01-13-2006, 12:22 AM	#7 (permalink)
viperassasin New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 5	we are talking brand new laptops and what is gpu

01-13-2006, 12:35 AM	#9 (permalink)
viperassasin New Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 5	your telling me i can't put a different video card in my laptop. and these are both new right out of the box which come with windows xp home which is no biggy because i already have xp pro upgrade disk. and the dell from the sounds of will boot faster than the gateway because of the higher 5400 rpm vs the 4200 rpm hard drive that dell has that is what is making it so hard because the gateway will cost more if i decide to go upgrading parts. Last edited by viperassasin; 01-13-2006 at 12:38 AM.

01-13-2006, 12:40 AM	#10 (permalink)
TheChef Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: New York Age: 18 Posts: 1,383	No, you probably can't upgrade the GPU in your laptop. The Dell will boot faster? What makes you think that? __________________ Athlon 64 3000+ Venice -- MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum Asus nVidia GeForce 6600 -- Corsair ValueSelect 1024mb Seagate 120GB Barracuda -- Xoxide X-Clear Case FOR SALE http://www.computerforum.com/showthread.php?t=47630 http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=mzvideos

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