What is with all the haters?!?
Does this guy make sense to anyone else?
No.
What is with all the haters?!?
Does this guy make sense to anyone else?
If vram has absolutely jack **** to do with the performance of driving an external monitor, then why do some bigger monitors require a certain amount of vram to drive it in the first place?? AND why does the 23" acd run so much faster in closed (shell) mode? Maybe its due to the fact that in closed mode its not dividing the vram in half and the full 256vram goes to the 23" acd?? Its common sense.
Um no your not my teacher. And a real world idiot doesnt have the ability to fail anyone in the first place, you special special person, you.First off. You Fail.
umm no, its quite easy to fill up that 128mb ram on the external monitor from such apps,even yes small windows on your desktop can take up as much as 10mb each (proven). Also without a certain amount of ram you cannot even drive a 30" monitor.Second, You need more Ram for "bigger" monitors for high res textures in games. You'll barely use 10% of 256mb driving a 1920x1200 display for daily operations such as EXPOSE.
um no as well here, I have proven by testing out real world usage, and you have not done any of this and just claiming your stubborn opinions, which is utterly WRONG. Then ask me why the mbp runs so much ****ing faster when you have it in closed mode?????? you still have NOT ANSWERED this question because you know deep down I am right that vram has a significant impact on the performance/ability to drive an external monitor, END OF STORY, DONE DEAL WHOADY~~Third, You need to re-read my post. I'm not saying that there isn't a difference between the 15inch you had and the new 17 inch in speed. I'm simply correcting your uneducated, unscientific, and unproven finds of the 256mb jump to 512mb speeding things up.
Like I clearly stated in my previous post.
1. HIGHER CLOCKED GPU
2. PENRYN BENEFITS
All I can say is YOU ARE ONE STUBBORN SON OF A BITCH, I have tested this and saw first hand and still own both machines as I have the 15" on ebay right now. Please, Please dont say anything anymore (your just embarassing yourself as everyone can clearly see you are wrong and no proof to your claim that vram has nothing to do with how well it performs in driving an 23" ACD). I did all the testing and confirmed the differences and as proof even you can see for yourself when you close the mbp in closed mode which runs overall so much ****in faster. And if 256vram is more than enough, why does it run all so much faster and more responsive with the mbp in closed mode not splitting 256mb/2 for 128mb on each individual monitors??? Maybe your partially right about 256vram is good enough and 512mbvram is the one you should have so it could be used in dual mode for a 512mb/2 for a 256mb vram to each individual monitors and that's what I'm seeing with the 17" 512mbvram mbp??? And I even owned a previous 17" sr 2.4ghz mbp with 256vram that ran pretty much identical to the 15" (but were talking about external monitors here) and you who have not played/tested this with the new 2.5ghz mbp penryn 512mb vram models. I'd say your the uneducated one here.End of story. Stop feeding bull poop about video ram helping your situation out.
No but my hitachi travelstar 7k200 <~~ which means 200gb not 160gb IS faster than your 320gb 5400 and no if your thinking that density of the 320gb has it over edge to the 7200rpm of a hitachi drive your wrong (been proven as well) + WD isnt a very reliable company as it was 10 years ago, a lot of hdd failure rate and even a 9 year old kid on an eepc knows this because it is COMMON SENSEEdit: Side Comment: Let me guess, you think your 160 7200 rpm drive is faster than my 320gb 5400.![]()
This has got to be the most bizarre thread I've ever read. The new 17" is a great machine no question.
Is it tons better than the previous 15"? I think it depends on your needs, but the idea that it's so much better and doesn't get beachball slow downs is silly.
The idea that extra vram (alone) is somehow increasing performance of an external monitor is silly. Not worth participating in this thread with all the rants going on.
To the OP, you have a great machine but give it a rest, you are going off the deep end here.