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Art2

05-23-2005, 11:05 AM

I am planning to buy a sony vaio laptop, but I am stuck with two models to choose from.

The main differences are:

VGN-A317M: 1,73 Pentium M 740, WXGA, ATI MOBILITY RADEON™ X600 met 128-MB VRAM

VGN-A417M: 1,86 Pentium M 750, WUXGA, ATI MOBILITY RADEON™ X600 met 256 MB HyperMemory

My main question is, how will hypermemory affect graphical performance (Painter/Photoshop/Cinema4D)? Will the difference be significant? They both have the same kind of harddrive and memory I think.

The A417M is also a bit (20euros) cheaper than the A317M (I guess due to the hypermemory card) and the A417M is a newer model.

So which one to choose?

DrFx

05-23-2005, 11:16 AM

I would stay away from Hypermemory, because it is basically shared memory. But someone correct me if you think I'm wrong!

Art2

05-23-2005, 11:25 AM

DrFX, no you're right, it is shared memory, but since it's 256mb...
(ATI's HyperMemory cards come in two variations: the 128MB HyperMemory version features 32MB VRAM on board, and the 256MB HyperMemory version has 128MB VRAM on board.)

Segmoria

08-13-2005, 06:51 PM

So did you finally got this laptop?

I'm thinking of spending money on the same model but I'm still a bit reluctant about it
So, care to share some comments on its performance?

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