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31373 Re: New Laptop - BEING RETURNED.
   Nice review De! And of course, you are correct there also. I was not... 		micro   POPE 5   04 May 2019
 3:12 PM
31337 Re: New Laptop - BEING RETURNED.
   I dont know if you remember when I was in TX , I bought a "NEW" bike t... 		capt_nemo   POPE 5   04 May 2019
 5:51 AM

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Re: New Laptop - BEING RETURNED.

By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Sat, 04 May 19 3:57 AM
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Re: "I would take the memory over the raw speed of the cpu every day of the year..."Right you are.

I'm sure you know, though, that there are several kinds of memory in a typical computer. They operate at different speeds and come at dramatically different prices. The 16 gigs of RAM that you discussed are very important to the computer's overall speed, but they're also the slowest and cheapest of the three types in the laptop. The Level 2 cache on the motherboard is far faster, and the Level 1 smartcache on the processor is SO much faster and costlier that the manufacturer gives this laptop with 16 gigabytes of RAM just 8 megabytes of smartcache memory. To put it another way, the computer has two thousand times as much RAM as smartcache.

My beef with Amazon is that I ordered a machine with 8 megs of smartcache and they delivered one with just 6 megs of smartcache. That was a $190 mistake... in their favor, of course... as Intel currently sells the i7-4900MQ CPU for $570.00 and the i7-4810MQ CPU for a relatively modest $380.00. (Kind of funny, when you think about it, that the i7-4900MQ CPU sells for more than I'm paying for a laptop containing one.)

But it's not about the money. It's about the fact that I paid for something that will give me a certain level of performance, performance I think I will require in order to terraform my own Minecraft world, and Amazon delivered one that is substantially inferior.

I returned the "bad" laptop today and re-ordered. The new Dell Precision m4800 should be here on Tuesday. You can bet that the first thing I'll be doing is checking to see if it has the right CPU. The second thing, probably, is writing a review on Amazon warning people who order refurbished equipment to verify that what they received is, in fact, what they ordered. If this "mistake" was done on a large scale, it would be quite a scam. I don't think many laptop purchasers would ever notice it.


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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months