[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]Yes that was a picture of a Samsung Nexio, good job, and I was well-aware that it runs Windows CE… I didn’t know he was running MS OneNote and the recommendation of the Nexio was before that… I threw in the picture because of the setup (keyboard and screen) before I knew he needed Windows XP. If you had read up in my previous post it had said exactly [quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]Clie with keyboard SLASH Fujitsu P1000 . That’s why I asked: [quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]How would the Fujitsu P1000 not work? not “How would the Samsung Nexio not work?”
You were pretty indignant that your suggestion could possibly be misconstrued to mean devices that run a PDA OS. Well, you equated it with a Clie and posted the picture of a WinCE device. You also called the X505 “under-powered” in the same post that you recommended a device with a 800 MHz Crusoe proc. You’re right, I can’t imagine why tifosiv122 thought you were recommending anything other than a P1000.
(Sorry, I have nothing against you Drachen… just know that.)
Topic is dead anyway, if its not my TR its a 505, I am not looking at any other devices, notebooks, brain-PC’s, etc…thanks for the suggestions.
In the past 2 days of the auction (leaving 3 days left) I have had 1,000+ unique visitors, which says a lot. I have a guy in NJ who is willing to pay on the spot (too bad since I just moved) but we might do a live webcam demo…
It seems more then likely the TR is sold…which, is a good thing.
[quote author=“Drachen”]You also called the X505 “under-powered” in the same post that you recommended a device with a 800 MHz Crusoe proc. You’re right, I can’t imagine why tifosiv122 thought you were recommending anything other than a P1000.
Who said I’m not saying that the P1000 is under-powered? By-all-means, it definitely is…but it’s price tag is also nearly $2000 less… that was more of my point… If he is willing spend $3000 for ONE under-powered machine, why not get one under-powered machine for $1000-$1200 (eBay, NewEgg etc account for price variation) and then with the $2000ish difference get another more powerful one for his other needs.
[quote author=“Drachen”][quote author=“OnMyWayUp”](Sorry, I have nothing against you Drachen… just know that.)
[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]...If he is willing spend $3000 for ONE under-powered machine, why not get one under-powered machine for $1000-$1200 (eBay, NewEgg etc account for price variation) and then with the $2000ish difference get another more powerful one for his other needs.
Because he can. :wink:
For what it’s worth, you shouldn’t even breathing Pentium M at 1GHz and Transmeta Crusoe at TM5600 @ 833Mhz. I’ve used both and the Pentium M is vastly superior in performance. Imagine that a TM5600 @ 833Mhz is equivalent to a Pentium III 600 while the Pentium M at 1Ghz is equivalent to a Pentium 4 1.7GHz. So, he’s paying more…but to a certain degree, he’s also getting more.
[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]If he is willing spend $3000 for ONE under-powered machine, why not get one under-powered machine for $1000-$1200 (eBay, NewEgg etc account for price variation) and then with the $2000ish difference get another more powerful one for his other needs.
It was more hypothetical then even, at most, a rhetorical question. Hypothetical to prove my point about doing things logically… I mean the whole wow factor with the x505 is probably enough to drive many to getting it… hell, if I had the money and would never have to worry about knowing how to say: これわいくらですか... i would probably get it as a toy too. But since I’m not rich, I’ll stick with practicality.
tifosiv122: Sorry… I guess I really did make it sound like I was telling you you should have done that… [quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]Did you consider just selling the TR, and getting a nice Clie with keyboard/Fujitsu P1000 (either of which you can get for under $1200) and then using the difference of the sale to but a nice S for your, “desktop” needs.
Yeah that coulda been it I didn’t exactly mean it like that… more like an inquiry as to why exactly you didn’t go that route…(ie: hopefully an explanation will follow… basically)
OnMyWayUp - Thanks for the suggestion…I looked at the Fuji before buying the TR…it had a Crusoe CPU which I personally don’t like…256 max RAM which is not enough to run XP IMO…512 is pushing it…thanks anyway.
Funny, I was looking at a Fujitsu P1000 vs. the TR. I eventually ruled for the TR because the P1000 has only 256mb of RAM, and is so underpowered it’s sad.
Congrats tifosiv122 for finding a buyer for the TR and also deciding to buy the x505, I think it’s one hell of a notebook.
I would have thought that the more likely decision was the choice between the P2120 (or the newly announced P5000) or the TR since they were all 2 spindle systems. Of course there were also other players like Panasonic…although the others were import items.
As we have mentioned in previous reviews, the systems RAM appears to play a bigger role than the processor when running Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system. And because the X505 comes with 512MB of RAM, we noticed only slight difference in benchmark performance when compared to the Sony TR1A, Panasonic W2 and the JVC Interlink 7310. An interesting thing about these four laptops is that they all share the same chipset but have different memory limitations. Both the Panasonic and JVC models can be upgraded to 512MB of memory (we have had unofficial reports that both support 768MB though), the Sony TR1A can handle 1GB of RAM and the X505 is maxed out at 512MB according to iCube’s specifications. While some may see the max 512MB of memory being a limitation, the X505 should still be able to handle your memory needs for quite a while.
In our benchmarks, the Sony X505 proved to be on par with the other systems we tested. Because the JVC 7310 uses a different screen resolution than the other systems tested, 3dMark unfortunately was not compatible with it. We would have expected the JVC’s performance to be close to the other systems however based on the 7310’s configuration. The only difference between these systems performance-wise would be the memory bandwidth. Because the JVC 7310 and Panasonic W2 come standard with 256MB of memory versus the 512MB present in the Sony X505 and TR1A, you will notice more delayed performance while multitasking.
Apparently it’s not all that under-powered…for what I use it for, the TR is more then enough, if the x505 can hold its own against a TR, I think it will be a good choice.
They also go on to talk about the keyboard:
The keyboard is also easier to type on than the JVC 7310 or Sony TR1A notebooks, but because this system is imported from Japan, you will have to get used to some key placements that are different from US models.
For me, the TR was a step up in keyboard size (my last sub-notebook was much smaller then the TR) so going to a better keyboard sounds good too. The way they explain it, I am glad I decided against the Jap. version, I don’t want awkward key placements to deal with…