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my old laptops dead and i really like the look of the new n510 but dont know if this is a proper replacement
my old laptop is (was lol) an HP single core centrino 1.73ghz with crappy intel graphics and ridiculously heavy with its 17.5 screen but it did everything i needed it for (making music mainly) except play any games
ive seen the n510 on youtube running games like COD4 etc which my laptop could never do so i know its better graphically but does this mean it will be the same or better for running music software (with external USB sound card)???
if it is the same level of performance then i would rather get that than a bigger notebook as i carry around a laptop everyday
thx in advance ppl and i hope to be a samsung owner soon 🙂
UPDATE was just thinking about it…can any of the older netbooks nc10 etc do the job??
Good one Tony 😛
Seriously though, I have the N510, coming from an X32 Thinkpad, which had indeed a single core Centrino @ 1.7 ghz and who had a Mobility Radeon 7500. Needless to say, the N510 smokes it in games big time. No comparison. Now, I’m not sure it will do everything better than the X32 did, such as running VS 2008 and stuff like that, but for gaming and video, the X32 is miles behind, Centrino or not.
Hope that helps.
Hi geejay74,
My old PB 15″ 1.6 dual core seems rather slower than my current NC10, the PB is dying though, and it really was a budget machine. There is a good games section here if you are thinking of not spending as much as the N510 costs but would like to play some games. These 10 inchers are far from gaming machines but cope with quite a few. As far as most other things go, excluding intensive graphics stuff, they perform admirably. The speakers differ on various N models so it may be worth investigating a bit for your music requirements.
You pays your money and takes your choice. Buy one which would be suitable for what YOU want to do. There is tons of info on these forums
You may not need to spend on an N510, but you may prefer one.The N510 will be better at GPU heavy tasks like gaming as the graphics chipset is more powerful. However for CPU heavy tasks of which music related software often is, the N510 could well perform worse especially on single threads as it still has the same Intel Atom processor (well I think it comes with an N280 instead of an N270 though the differences for most things are minimal), the hyper-threading may help a bit though along with the better chipset.
It really depends on what kind of music software you are running and for example how many audio tracks you are dealing with at a time.
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