[green_angel]

Hi.
Nice community"!""
I'm from Portugal and I'm thinking in buy a laptop.
I don't know what laptor is better
g73 or m17x
PROCESSORIntel® Core™ i5 540M 2.53GHz (3.06GHz Turbo Mode, 3MB Cache)
OPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
VIDEO CARD1GB ATI Radeon™ Mobility HD 5870
LCD PANEL17-inch WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 RGB LED (1200p)
MEMORY6GB Memory (1x 2GB, 1x 4GB DDR3)
HARD DRIVE500GB 7,200RPM SATA-II HDD
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVESlot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD+-RW, CD-RW)










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ASUS G73 :
DESCRIÇÃO Portátil para Gaming da nova geração da Intel, Centrino 2. Core i7, FSB 1066, Wireless 802.11n, DirectX 11!




CPU Intel Core i7 Processor 720QM




MEMÓRIA 8GB DDR3




LCD 17.3" FHD (1920 x 1080)




ARMAZENAMENTO Disco: 2 x 500GB SATA 7200rpm (1 TB)
Drives: DVD Super Multi




PROCESSAMENTO GRÁFICO ATI Mobility Radeon HD5870 GDDR5 1GB VRAM




ACESSÓRIOS Camâra de 2 Mega Pixel imbutida com microfone.




COMUNICAÇÕES LAN 10/100/1000
Wireless 802.11 b/g/N
Bluetooth




INTERFACE 4 x USB 2.0
1 x VGA
1 x HDMI
8 em 1 Leitor de Cartões
1 x Line Out
1 x Mic In
1 x RJ45




SISTEMA AUDIO Altec Lansing® speakers asus: 1700 euros
m17x : 1900 euros
What is your opinion?

[Takaharu]

The ASUS has a better processor, more RAM, more hard drive space and the rest is near enough the same.
So, the ASUS.

[Sihastru]

Get an m17x with an nVidia card GTX280m or something newer. The mobility Radeon 5780 is very weak, it can hardly beat an old nVidia 8800...

[green_angel]

realy? but i don't have that option to put gtx280m!!!
I don't understand, mobility 5870 is different of 5870 normal in desktop ??
If I put one graphic card more powerfull I will spend more !!
how many fps do you think that g73 run counter strike source, and cod mw2?
My only problem of g73 is that he is very ugly!! don't have design.

[Sihastru]

Desktop Radeon HD 5870
Transistors 2.15 billion
Clock 850 MHz
Shader (ALUs) 1,600
Texture Units 80
Z/Stencil Units 128
Compute Perf. 2.72 TFLOPS
DRAM Type GDDR5-4800
DRAM Interface 256-bits
Memory Bw. 153.6 GB/s
TDP 188W

Desktop Radeon HD 5770
Transistors 1.04 billion
Clock 850 MHz
Shader (ALUs) 800
Texture Units 40
Z/Stencil Units 64
Compute Perf. 1.36 TFLOPS
DRAM Type GDDR5-4800
DRAM Interface 128-bits
Memory Bw. 76.8 GB/s
TDP 108W

Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Transistors 1.04 billion
Clock 700 MHz
Shader (ALUs) 800
Texture Units 40
Z/Stencil Units 64
Compute Perf. 1.12 TFLOPS
DRAM Type GDDR5-4000
DRAM Interface 128-bits
Memory Bw. 64.0 GB/s
TDP 50W

As you can see, Mobility Radeon 5870 has more in common with the Desktop Radeon 5770, and nothing in common with the Desktop Radeon 5870. The clocks are even slower then those of the 5770.

When it comes to mobile gaming, the card isn't that weak, but when you compare it to a desktop 5850 (not even the 5870), the mobility 5870 has barely half the performance.

Here's a quick link for you with MW2 tested: Benchmark Results: Modern Warfare 2 And Crysis : AVADirect's W860CU: Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Vs. GeForce GTX 285M As you can see, compared to the desktop 5850 gets just about 1/2 framerate.

If you could hold on for a few weeks (maybe more), the GTX480m was launched, it should be interesting.