HP dv2500t, dv6500t and dv9500t Intel Santa Rosa Notebooks Announced

[Fant]

I have an HP laptop and use the extended battery the same way you are saying. And I agree I like how it tilts the laptop when placed on a desk. But I'm getting this laptop to be sleek and portable. 3 hours is enough battery time for me so I'd rather have the lighter weight and sleeker form factor. I was actually comparing this to a macbook which are very thin and sleek but for the same price I was able to get alot more bang for my money. However I still wanted something thin. Is the 12-cell battery one that can be added on to the laptop or does it replace the internal battery?

[BionicSniper]

i wish they would have launched it with the nv 8400.... HP wouldn't say when they are going to launch it.

[mainak_sarcar]

Hurray.. NVidia Launches the 8xxxM series GPUs
NVIDIA GeForce 8M Notebook Graphics Card Series Released

Now .. gotta wait till HP includes this as a option for the dv6500t and dv9500t laptops.. Cant wait any longer.. man

[orev]

From the cnet review of the 9500:


More here

Strange to reply to myself, but anyway...

CNet seems to think that the battery life will be better on systems using the intel graphics. They are rating the battery life based on an "intensive" DVD test. However, the new Geforce 8 processors have a feature that lets the DVD decoding go through the GPU, which uses less power than the CPU.

So if you are looking for longer runtimes watching DVDs, my bet is that the geforce chips will give you better battery life than the intel video.

Unfortunately I cannot find a link on the cnet site to inform them of this probable error.

[R4000]

So if you are looking for longer runtimes watching DVDs, my bet is that the geforce chips will give you better battery life than the intel video.

This would be shocking, as well as a first. Nothing currently beats the low-power utilization of a GMA950, and I don't really see the X3100 being too far behind it (if at all).

If nVidia has somehow made this possible, it would be nothing short of a miracle (especially in an era of power-hungry graphics solutions).

[orev]

This would be shocking, as well as a first. Nothing currently beats the low-power utilization of a GMA950, and I don't really see the X3100 being too far behind it (if at all).

If nVidia has somehow made this possible, it would be nothing short of a miracle (especially in an era of power-hungry graphics solutions).

My point is that DVD and HD video will probably be better for battery life in the geforce, unless the X3100 also has hardware decoding built-in. For the desktop I'm betting they are comparable, but with gaming, all bets are off.

Though my real complaint is how cnet took the results of the DVD test and assumed it was caused by the santa rosa, instead of looking at what the geforce was also bringing to the table.

[pasc]

do anybody know how long will it take for HP to release the NVIDIA 8400M option on the dv6500t series?
and why is it worth waiting for the NVIDIA 8400M even tho I'm not a Gamer or graphic designer?

[orev]

No one knows, it's only rumors. People saying about a month. There is a post on the front page here with an article talking about why you might want it.

[Charles P. Jefferies]

do anybody know how long will it take for HP to release the NVIDIA 8400M option on the dv6500t series?
and why is it worth waiting for the NVIDIA 8400M even tho I'm not a Gamer or graphic designer?

It's not. You can read here what the GeForce 8 offers in terms of video playback. If you're not gaming and you're not rendering, it's not worth it to wait though. The Intel GMA X3100 would do just as well for you.

[orev]

It's not. You can read here what the GeForce 8 offers in terms of video playback. If you're not gaming and you're not rendering, it's not worth it to wait though. The Intel GMA X3100 would do just as well for you.

I'm not convinced of this. We don't know what's in the pipeline for Vista for the next year, and Vista is native DirectX 10. It will do Directx9, but in a compatibility layer.

Also, from what I've read, the DVD and HD video playback using the gf8 will use significantly less power than if it were decoding on the CPU. It might be enough to get you through a whole movie on the plane.