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Subject: Re: Can someone assess how good this laptop is?

Author: Ray Banks

Date: 23:01:40 05/19/05

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On May 20, 2005 at 01:59:04, Ray Banks wrote:

>That is a good machine. It isn't the fastest Pentium-M processor, but you'd pay
>a lot more for the fastest one for little benefit, so I wouldn't worry.
>
>Only possible downside I see is that the video system seems to use 128MB of the
>512MB system RAM, meaning you effectively only have 384MB which could be tight
>if you want to run bigger hash sizes on your chess engines

It uses "up to" 128MB of system RAM for the memory, so can be configured to use
less in the BIOS - say 64MB - so that isn't so bad. But if you have the cash you
could specify more memory at time of purchase. Would be better to spend it that
way than on a faster processor in my view



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