SavRow Razor 1.7 Laptop

[aikeo]

Other ODMs, however, have chosen 'lesser' MR 9700s.

As far as I can tell, there's no special cooling directed at the graphics card.

"lesser MR9700s?" wow, i wasn't aware that ATI made different versions of the architecture. so how many versions are there?

[knowley]

Great review! I picked up my Razor on friday, its a great piece of kit. Mine has the 1.7 Dothan with 2MB cache, 1gig ram and the 60gig hd.

Thought you might be interested in the benchmarks.

Savrows factory tests:
3DMark 2001SE - 3609 3DMarks (Battery)
11921 3Dmarks(mains)
3DMark 2003 - 1011 3DMarks (Battery)
3164 3Dmarks (mains)

My own benchmarks:
AuqaMArk 25,102 (mains)
3D Mark01SE 11943(mains)
3D Mark03SE 3159(mains)

It loads windows and applications faster than my desktop setup which has a RAID0 setup on an Abit KD7! Maybe my pc is broke

[fathazza]

just out of interest, in the options on the savrow configurator thing, it list the option to have a second hard drive....

i was just wondering what form that took? as in internal (both at once, unlikely given size, but iirc alienware have a lappy with two hdds in it), internal swappable, or external?

[Moby-Dick]

I dont know if its just the lighting , but the keyboard looks 'orrible !

I've never been that much of a fan of laptop keyboards , but that looks worse than normal. Worse still , it looks cheap , which is somethign I'd not expect with a laptop of that price tag.

I was seriously thinking of recommending these to our higher profile clients who would want a no holds barred laptop , but it really put me off

any chance of some prettier eye candy of the keyboard ?

[nichomach]

I dont know if its just the lighting , but the keyboard looks 'orrible !
I've never been that much of a fan of laptop keyboards , but that looks worse than normal. Worse still , it looks cheap , which is somethign I'd not expect with a laptop of that price tag.
I was seriously thinking of recommending these to our higher profile clients who would want a no holds barred laptop , but it really put me off

That was exactly my thought; it just looks cheap and bland. Present that to a client and their first question's going to be "So...remind me why we didn't buy the Acer again?"

Seriously, the exterior's pretty nice looking, but I hate to say it - you'd be better off with a Latitude (damn...there's the "D" word again...), or a Vaio.

[Stubzz]

Well it's not available in 1.8 - 2ghz flavors now too, although the 2ghz has some delays. Would the new 1.8+ chips be the Dothans?

*edit* - heh me being stupid, they are

[TooNice]

Woa.. Pretty pricey.

I want to know more about those Centrino processors.
Actually, I'd like to know more about laptops in general. I've made a post at http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=31298 but had limited replies (one pointing here).

At looked at the savrow range of laptops, and I find them all to be.. pretty pricey.
Could someone round up about the various CPUs used in laptops for a start?
I don't know much about Centrino's and to be honest, if I get a laptop today based on educated guesses, I'd just pick one of those Acer Ferrari laptop with an A64 processor and a Radeon Mobility 9700. Is there any reason -not- to?

[nichomach]

TooNice, Centrino doesn't refer to the processor, it refers to an Intel approved platform which includes, among other things, a Pentium-M processor, Intel chipset and Intel wireless network card. All Centrinos are Pentium-Ms, not all Pentium-Ms are Centrinos; a good example is the Dell Latitude D600s we use at work. If I order them with Intel wireless network card's, they're Centrinos. If I order them with Dell's own wireless network cards, they're not.

[TooNice]

Thanks for the clarification.
So whats so good about Intel approved platform?

I am still more appealed by an A64 personally, but then again, I really do not know how laptop CPUs compares to each other.. In both power, battery life, anything thats relevant etc.