Solved! Which laptop?

[isaacl]

I am kinda down to one of these two laptops, both of which are on sale on Friday:

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/583092/HP-G71-343US-17-3-Widescreen/

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_dynSessConf=1143399528492272592&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=L505-S5984&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960

Best Buy also has a version with 4GB of RAM.

I do media and video work.

What do people recommend?
Thanks!

 

[buwish]

For media and video work it doesn't hurt to have 4GB of RAM, so it might be work looking into that model.

 

[isaacl]

Are there any disadvantages to HP over Toshiba?
And also, the HP uses DDR2, and the Toshiba uses DDR3.
Is DDR3 that much better?
Thanks!

 

[aberchonbie]

they both have intel gma 4500mhd graphics cards which aren't that good.. it should suffice for watching movies, youtube, office productivity suites, etc. no gaming and no blu-ray (doesn't have blu-ray drive and if it did, wouldnt play smoothly)

Pros about the HP:
more secure OS (64 bit version of win7)
more ram (by 1gb, but ddr2)
bigger screen
faster cpu (although very marginal)

Pros about Toshiba:
much cheaper

ddr2/ddr3 difference isn't TOO much.. i think you would actually see better performance from the HP imho..

 

[isaacl]

they both have intel gma 4500mhd graphics cards which aren't that good.. it should suffice for watching movies, youtube, office productivity suites, etc. no gaming and no blu-ray (doesn't have blu-ray drive and if it did, wouldnt play smoothly)

Pros about the HP:
more secure OS (64 bit version of win7)
more ram (by 1gb, but ddr2)
bigger screen
faster cpu (although very marginal)

Pros about Toshiba:
much cheaper

ddr2/ddr3 difference isn't TOO much.. i think you would actually see better performance from the HP imho..

With the sale price, it's only $50 more...
I just wish it had a better graphics card, for my video work...
And I hope the 64 bit Windows 7 will work with all my programs...

 

[Pushworth]

Toshiba will have better build quality.