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Toshiba's

  • 14-11-2009 5:33pm
    #1
    Consigliere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭


    Does anyone know the difference between a Toshiba A500-17X and an A500-19X?

    19X is the latest model and is 100 euro dearer in Harvey Normans than a 17X is in PC World Catalogue.

    But according to the spec, the only difference is that the 17X has half a GB extra Graphics than the 19X. They both have a Centrino 2 processor.

    (As a side-note, I need a laptop mainly for music, 90% of which will be recording vocals using Cubase. I might also start using Apelton for production. A few friends have Toshibas and they seem solid to me, but my knowledge is very limited. Any other thoughts would be appreciated, cheers!)


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  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Going by the following specs.

    http://ie.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/product/Satellite-A500-19X/1076497/toshibaShop/false/

    http://ie.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/product/Satellite-A500-17X/1076471/toshibaShop/false/

    The 17x has a better graphics card. This will make a difference for 3d work like games and cad. The processors are different. The 17x has a slower main speed but higher FSB and cache which would indicate it's a newer processor (I'm not as knowledgeable on laptop processors as I used to be) either way I doubt you'd notice a difference between the two processors. Apart from that they both appear to be the same. So the 17x would be a bit better I'd imagine but I doubt you'd notice much of a difference.

    I don't know anything about cubase or apelton so I don't know if they would run that well on it. I imagine they would as they're both well specced machines.


  • #3
    Consigliere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭Consigliere


    thanks!

    swaying more towards the 17X at the moment at the moment- although the slower main speed is discouraging!!


  • #4
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    We're talking 2.13Ghz compared to 2.2Ghz. That's about 3 or 4% difference. Also the 17x processor has a higher FSB (which means it can communicate to thing like the system memory quicker) and more cache. Intel processors usually like cache quite a bit so I imagine they are both as fast as each other in real world usage or if one is slower you probably wouldn't know.


  • #5
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    You're not going to notice any difference between those processors, that said the 17X would have the better of the 2 processors imo, as AlmightyCushion said, there is only a very tiny amount of difference in clock speed, where as the processor in the 17X has a higher FSB and Cache.


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