Just my two cents ... I am also looking for such a rig. If the price difference wasn't way out of the ball park I would go with the T9500 and FX3600. I could care less about blue ray though. I would probably use my external Raid array for 1080P captures if I had to. I will have to take a look at the website now to see if the price difference is worth it. Anyone else looking into this or other laptop models capable of HD and/or HDV editing?
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Terje J. Hanssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been waiting quite a while for a potential capable mobile > workstation for useable HDV editing with Cinelerra on Linux. Finally, in > my opinion the new, "general" HP Compaq 8710w mobile workstations does > feature promising specs for this purpose. Before buying, I hope to get > some feedback and viewpoints: > > HP Compaq 8710w comes available in three preconfigured models: > > 1) KE191EA 8710w T9500/NvidiaFX3600/17"WUXGA > WVA/1x2GB/200GB(7200rpm)/Blue Ray/802.11a-b-g-n/BT/TPM/FPR/Vista > Business Downgrade/3-3-0 > > 2) GC124EA 8710w T7700/NvidiaFX1600/17"WUXGA > WVA/1x2GB/120GB(7200rpm)/DVD+-RW/802.11a-b-g-n/BT/TPM/FPR/Vista > Business/3-3-0 > > 3) GC125EA 8710w T7700/NvidiaFX1600/17"WUXGA > WVA/1x2GB/120GB(7200rpm)/DVD+-RW/802.11a-b-g-n/BT/TPM/FPR/XP Pro/3-3-0 > > Optional FreeDOS and Linux: > Dependent on countries, FreeDOS is optional available as a special > dealer configuration. I've started to search about this, to see if I can > avoid to pay the Windows Vista tax. > On Oct. 05, 2007 a previous, now lower end 8710w model was also > certified with Novell Suse Linux Enterprise 10 (SLED 10) > http://developer.novell.com/yes/91889.htm > > Even that the new high-end model 1) above has another, more powerful > CPU, graphics and Blu-ray burner, I think the previous certification > still has much relevance to make this new model 1) a relative safe > selection for both SLED10/openSUSE and Linux in general. One user has > reported successful use with Ubuntu. > > > Previous on this list, I think that a Xeon 3.0 GHz CPU on stationary > workstations has been recommended to manage useable speed for HDV > editing with Cinelerra. > > Therefore, what about the mobile > > Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs, T9500 vs. T7700 above? > * T9500: 2.60 GHz, 6 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB > * T7700: 2.40 GHz, 4 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB > > Graphics > NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M vs. FX 3600M graphics with 512 MB dedicated video > memory? > > http://h20195.www2.hp.com/PDF/4AA1-1840EEE.pdf > http://h20195.www2.hp.com/PDF/c01045541.pdf > > > Cheers, > Terje J. Hanssen > > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > -- Thanks, Aaron Newcomb http://www.thesourceshow.org http://www.opennewsshow.org _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
