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    Dell Canada Reveals HD 4xxx Series for Inspiron 15 Notebook for CHEAP !!!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by perkam, Mar 28, 2009.

  1. perkam

    perkam Newbie

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    perkam, Mar 28, 2009
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  2. Blacky

    Blacky Notebook Prophet

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    Is it just me that after the Nvidia scandal with the defective 8600M / 8400M series Dell has almost completely reverted to Ati. It's good to see some competition on the mobile graphics market.
     
    Blacky, Mar 28, 2009
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  3. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Or maybe its just the fact that ATI has very competitive GPUs at the moment...
     
    sgogeta4, Mar 28, 2009
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  4. perkam

    perkam Newbie

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    Bingo :cool: This thing is almost three times as fast as the HD 8400 GS and the HD 3200.

    Perkam
     
    perkam, Mar 28, 2009
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  5. funky monk

    funky monk Notebook Deity

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    ATI doesn't have as much cool stuff you can do though, for example CUDA and physx
     
    funky monk, Mar 28, 2009
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  6. perkam

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    CUDA and physx matter for the 9800s and the GTXs, not for this segment of the market.

    Also:

    $778 CDN = $628 USD

    Very nice ;) (P.S. The memory is left at 1GB because noone with half a brain would pay $150 for 4GBs of memory when you can pickup 4GB DDR2 800 SODIMM notebook memory for $50 at your local computer shop, and they'll install it for you)

    Perkam
     
    perkam, Mar 28, 2009
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  7. drfelip

    drfelip Notebook Evangelist

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    I hope so see benchmarks soon. That card should be quite faster than an HD 3450...
     
    drfelip, Mar 31, 2009
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  8. millermagic

    millermagic Rockin the pinktop

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    I'm guessing the HD4300 is better than an 8400 or 8600?

    Hmm ... Tempting since its so cheap.
     
    millermagic, Mar 31, 2009
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  9. perkam

    perkam Newbie

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    Goes something like:

    Geforce 8600M > HD 4330 > Geforce 9400M > HD 3450 > 8400M/HD 3200

    Perkam
     
    perkam, Mar 31, 2009
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  10. emacs72

    emacs72 Notebook Consultant

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    for the price, this is quite the attractive purchase. coupled with a P8600 or P8700 plus 4GB of RAM and a 64-bit OS, the notebook is pretty good.
     
    emacs72, Mar 31, 2009
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