Official X500 Owner's Lounge!

[freedom16]

I care about the number cause my quadro fx 3700 is still the highest clock speed i have seen for a mobile card of today. Running at 745 MHZ!! I only be running one game on there, GTA IV because of its ultra powerful requirements of a cpu. What do you think of the core i7?

[Ingvarr]

I care about the number cause my quadro fx 3700 is still the highest clock speed i have seen for a mobile card of today. Running at 745 MHZ!! I only be running one game on there, GTA IV because of its ultra powerful requirements of a cpu. What do you think of the core i7?

Umm, to me looks like you think that same Mhz always mean same performance, that is completely non true if you compare different chips and especially different generations of chips.

For example, this 1.6 GHz i7 totally rips 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Quad if you measure actual performance.

[Red_Dragon]

^^The bad part about that is most consumers now think that.

[freedom16]

No Ingvarr i don't think that way much, it has a 128 cuda. I agree about that this is the future, the i7 is pure performance and damn it i want my machine already, i have wait until Tuesday or Wednesday. Why can't they deliver on weekends!

Another thing i hate the most about consumers is that when something so little breaks down people tend to buy another machine and spend so much money instead of replacing a hard drive, screen etc...

[The_Stig]

Ha anyone in the UK got one of the UK spec machines, if so can you post a quick review and your general opinions.

If not can some US owners post your opinions so far, whats the positives and negatives and is it worth the money ?

[Leebo]

I ordered the X505-Q832 (Costco model) recently and received it in about a day. This replaced an HP Dv7 system purchased about 2 months ago - it was okay, but I wanted something faster. I was concerned about the Wifi performance of the X505 and initially had problems even when the laptop was right next to my router.

I downloaded an updated driver dated 11/20/2009 I think from Realtek and have had excellent performance with no issues since (it seems the driver is for the RTL8191SE and RTL8192SE - the download page has the RTL8192SE title):

http://www.realtek.com/downloads/dow...Downloads=true

There was a Windows 7 update from Microsoft this week and I think that may have improved overall system performance as well

[Compusmurf]

Ohhh, good snag on the Realtek drivers. It's definitely NEWER than the one Toshiba gives out.

For other folks, if you don't know, for updated video drivers, jump over to laptopvideo2go.com and grab the latest there for your OS. Don't forget to grab the modded INF file too. You'll need it. I'm using 195.62 release and seems pretty stable

Now find us sound drivers that won't drop out...... I rolled back the drivers from Toshiba back to Microsoft's version... Stable without the annoying sound drops.

[freedom16]

Why don't you get the Harman Kardon drivers? How is the speakers anyway? I am still waiting on mine i hate these companies that won't ship on the weekends!

[Compusmurf]

Why don't you get the Harman Kardon drivers? How is the speakers anyway? I am still waiting on mine i hate these companies that won't ship on the weekends!

???

It's a conexant sound card and their drivers have issues. Mostly noticeable while playing games.

If you play games, you'll see soon enough.

[freedom16]

If so then how do you fix them? I thought it was harman Kardon soundcard?