Solved! 8 gig vs 6 gig of ram

[tridon52]

Hello,
Looking at a new toshiba qosmio laptop with the new sandy bridge intel (2ghz i7 2630QM) chip and windows 7 64bit. Also has the nvidia 460 m 1.5 gb gddr5 video card. Anyone see a benefit in spending 300 more dollars to upgrade from 6 gb of ddr 1333 to 8 gb of ddr 1333? The hardest thing i will do with the laptop is play world of warcraft. Hopefully on ultra settings. Basically TOSHIBA Qosmio X505-Q8104 for 1900.00 v/s TOSHIBA Qosmio X505-Q8102 for 1600.00 Thanks...

 

[rogueknight]

Toshiba Laptops

I can easily solve this issue, The 8102 is recalled for the faulty sandy bridge chip and is no longer offered by toshiba. I had the 8102 (which was an AWESOME laptop and I never had any problems with it, ran so well I thought it might have been a mac lol). I had to send it back due to the recall. There are two new choices the x505 8104 and the x500-930x. The only differences between the two are the 8104 has one 7200 hybrid hard drive and a regular 7200 hard drive where the 930 has two regular 7200 hard drives. The 930 does however come with windows 7 professional and the 8104 come with windows 7 home (which is what the 8102 came with and I have the upgrade to pro so wasn't a selling point for me). And for those that want to get nit picky the 930 is 99 cents cheaper than the 8104. Needless to say I replaced my 8102 with the 8104. Note anyone having to send thier 8102 back can get toshiba to discount the price of the 8104 or 930 (930 is back ordered 4 weeks where 8104 is currently in stock) where you only pay about $110 (1709.10 for the 930 and 1709.99 for the 8104) more for the new laptop. They won't offer it you gotta ask for the reduced price. I don't know where you guys found one at walmart I have checked and they don't have these models in the walmart inventory that I can find.

Good luck all!

 

[NickNC100]

No, you'd use the Hybrid drive just the same as any HDD. It just has that added 4GB of flash storage and it 'learns' how you use your OS/software and keeps frequently used stuff in the flash storage.
Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally a Good Hybrid HDD

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/seagatemomentusxt_052410010728/23019.png

Google "Momentus XT Problems" to get a feel for all the problems you're in for with that hybrid drive -- chirping, power consumption, unreliability, wake from sleep problems, and outright failures, to name a few.