Laptop Performance

[Mike Rose]

I am in the process of buying a new laptop and would appreciate some advice.

Within the realms of reality, price is no object, but I work with Multiple
Powerpoint presentations (open concurrently in some instances), with hundreds
of slides including a large number of pictures and other multimedia elements.

Current equipment is far too slow, and I would like to understand where best
to focus the dollars, in particular around Processor / Memory / Graphics Card
(And 3D etc) / Hard Drive Speed and so on.

Whilst I can spec and price machines, most manufacturers such as Dell have a
business grade machine as well as an engineering cad grade machine which when
specced are not much different in price - but I do not know which would best
suit the purpose. Particularly, is more graphics power going to alleciate my
problem, or should I focus on getting as much processor and memory as I can?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Mike

 

[tohlz]

Heres the system requirement which you can take a look at.
Personally, i would recommend focusing on the processor and RAM, since you
are working with multiple files at a time.
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[tohlz]

Forgotten to post the link, apology:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/prodinfo/sysreq.mspx

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[Troy @ TLC Creative]

With price not an objective, look for any machine that has an 128MB ATI 9800
mobility graphics chip. The offerings are very limited (Dell and Alienware
are the only two I can think of). This is currently, and for awhile, the
best graphics chip available for a laptop.

After that, go with 2 GB of ram, a 5400 rpm hard drive, pentium 4
hyperthreading at the fastest rate available, and do not plan on using it on
battery for more than a hour.

Troy @ TLC Creative
- Microsoft PowerPoint MVP -