Shopping for a new laptop--Logos performance questions

Ron Cook said:

00GB 5400 RPM hard drive, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator,

Most (but not quite all) here would suggest a 7200 RPM.

Quite a few (but not all) would suggest having a separate/dedicated Video card rather than a built-in Motherboard graphics chip.

Some say there is not too much different between i5 and i3, BUT that there is a big jump at i7. 

[But I would not yet know-see my specs below]

Ron the Specs are impressive.  As Steve noted, your bottlenecks are likely to be the Video card and the hard drive (in that order IMHO).  Is the Intel graphics a dedicated card or an on MOBO chip?

if it's dedicated how much ram?

Ron, out of curiosity, what type of video card is in your current system (particularly what brand)?

My computer has the following specs and it rocks:

• 1.3GHz Intel SU7300 Core 2 Duo Processor
• 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 2 slots, 4GB Max
• 500GB SATA Hard Drive (5400 RPM)
• 13.3" HD LED LCD Display, Intel GMA 4500MHD, Wi-Fi 802.11 bgn, 0.3M Webcam
• Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System (64 bit)

I have 2200-2300 resources in it, and my times are faster than the ones listed on this forum that have I7 with fast hard drives, except some large searches are a hair faster, but they all had smaller libraries.

I have no idea what  the factors are in running Logos 4 because I have also seen and heard of computers with less horsepower than mine also doing well with the program. I paid 629.00 for mine and also got a free Dvd writer.

I am completely happy with mine, even the typing is fast, I do think a core 2 Duo processor running Windows 7 64 bit and 4 gigs of memory was common in all the computers that were giving good preformance.

In Christ,

Jim

Kevin, I see a couple a problems with what you are saying when is comes to running Logos 4.

For example the laptop I have has neither the dedicated graphics card you have mentioned or the high speed hard drive or the SSD you have mentioned.

However, I agree with what you are saying in general terms, I don't believe those things to be the keys to running Logos 4 at a quick speed, I am not sure what is going on, but I have seen too many guys getting good preformance with out either of the things you have mentioned.

So although I agree that those things make computers faster, apparently Logos 4 is not so demanding that those things really have a big impact on preformance. Sure for those that can afford it, why not go for the best and fastest computers possible, but my experience and the experience of some others makes it appear that you can get by for much less and still have Logos run fast, this is very important for those of us on a tight budget, and it is also important for the sales of the Logos program it's self, that people get the correct idea about what level of computer it really takes to run this thing fast.

Do only those machines that cost 1000.00 and up run the program fast  or do machines that start in the 500-600 dollar range run the program fast?  I have a feeling it is the latter range, but from reading some of the posts on this forum it makes it look like it takes the 1000 dollar plus machine.

To be honest, I had to upgrade my laptop in order to get Logos to run well, it now runs great and I can really enjoy it, but if I would have not read all the posts carefully, I would have never had the courage to buy a 629 dollar laptop to run the program on, and I would still be waiting and waiting and waiting to buy a 1000.00 plus laptop. 

For me with the way things are in my area, every penny counts and even 629.00 was hard to come up with, just the upgrade to Logos 4 was hard on my budget, and then to find out that computer could not run it well enough for me to enjoy the program was a major blow to me, and my laptop was only a couple of years old it was a duo core 2.1 processor, running windows vista 32 bit with 4 gigs of ram.

My 1.6 single core netbook running windows XP 32 bit with 2 gigs of ram did a better job of running Logos 4, it ran the program faster than the other computer!!!  Go figure, I was disappointed, but not any more!

This computer is doing more than a good job!

I sure wish Logos would give us more information on what computers they are finding run the program well!

In Christ,

Jim

No Steve, I have not seen that thread that suggest that about the new lower-powered systems, one thing that I have noticed is that several of the other lower-powered systems with lesser chips than mine ran Logos well too!  In fact I considered them instead of what I got, but I went with mine for the 12 hour battery life, which I have not got yet, but I do run in the 11 plus hour battery life which is way more than I need.

In fact I am not sure that I have seen anything but the lower-powered systems running Logos well, except the expensive stuff, but like I have mentioned before my times are even faster than the expensive ones except on large searches like god, but when it comes to the guides and other features my machine in many cases are half the time mentioned by the high speed machines.

The real point that I would like to make is, I think Logos needs to share more with us, about what they have found out so far!

They are running this program on something, what are they using to get what they consider normal or good performance?  I say normal in the sense of I don't want to have a noticable wait on things, except a few seconds on big searches with big libraries.

They must know what is the bottom line for good functioning and what just will not work!

I would like them to give all of those out here some help in this area, some people just can't afford expensive machines but they do want the program to run like a normal program with out delays, what is needed???

I know my machine works, but not everyone would want a small 13 in laptop with nearly 12 hours of battery life.  Many folks will want a 17 in screen with around 3 hours of battery like and think that is the best laptop in the world, for them. So does it take an i3 or i5 or i7 to run this program or does it take those new low-power chips or what does it take.

I know that many people are not happy with how it runs on their current lap tops and are wanting to move up but they are on limited budgets and don't want to over spend, but they don't want to spend 5-600 dollars only to have the program still running slow, can Logos give us some help?

How many of you guys would like to see Logos comment on this issue?

In Christ,

Jim

JimVanSchoonhoven said:

How many of you guys would like to see Logos comment on this issue?

In Christ,

Jim

I pretty much agree with all of your thoughts in this thread. Especially this one:

JimVanSchoonhoven said:

they do want the program to run like a normal program with out delays,

thank you

Randy,

No problems running L4 on the 8530w (one of the best laptops on the market); the 8540w is a step up and has great performance!

God bless you and keep you,

Ken

JimVanSchoonhoven said:

 can Logos give us some help?

How many of you guys would like to see Logos comment on this issue?

[Y] +1

My laptop is sloooooooow..and I am going to have t live with it like this for at least another year.

I am not sure what you mean by a backlit key board, please explain. 

And the answer to the second question is no, it does not have a dvd player built in, but in my case when I bought mine, it was on special and they gave me a free dvd recorder-player with it, it is slim line and at amazon sells for under 50.00 dollars so far I like mine it is easy to take it with me, but I seldom have to use it so it just stays in my case.

This is really just a big powerful netbook and like most netbooks they don't have DVD players.

In Christ,

Jim