Gaming Resolution Scaling
Taking a further look at gaming performance at other resolutions, here are the same games from the previous page with additional results at 1440x900 and 1680x1050 for the G50V and dv5t - we didn't feel there was any need to attempt to run U6V at these higher resolutions. We used an external LCD for the dv5t, but note that you can purchase the laptop with a WSXGA+ display so the results there are actually meaningful. We included the Gateway M-152XL and P-7811 as points of reference; referring back to our midrange trio of laptops, the M-152XL was slightly faster with its HD 2600 than the 8600M GT/9500M GS, and of course the P-7811 with its 9800M GTS is easily the fastest sub-$1500 gaming notebook on the market.
The 60% average performance lead of the P-7811 over the G50V jumps up to a 77% lead at 1680x1050, and quite a few titles will require lower detail settings to get acceptable performance. The dv5t with 9600M GT is significantly slower than the G50V at higher resolutions; the P-7811 is 2.6 times as fast as the dv5t at 1680x1050 and the G50V is about 50% faster.
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JarredWalton - Friday, October 24, 2008 - link
See http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3435&a...">Anand's article on the subject. The MacBook battery life dropped in half with Vista... but then that could just be that Apple didn't optimize for Vista properly. What we would rather see is a Vista PC that can compete with MacBook; I can't think of a good reason why it can't be done, unless Vista just has some junk that refuses to allow power saving features to fully activate.BushLin - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - link
I think it is only fair to the other laptop manufacturers that you at least show the battery life of a Mac running Vista alongside their favourable results, I doubt anyone is still allowed to supply review samples with XP... it's not their fault Vista is crap!phreax9802 - Friday, October 24, 2008 - link
The VAIO SR series claim 6 hours of battery life running Vista. This is a 13.3" notebook with a 6-cell battery. Can you guys verify this claim, ask for a demo unit maybe?JarredWalton - Friday, October 24, 2008 - link
I'll see what I can do; Anand has had Sony hardware in the past, so maybe he can get me a laptop from them.GoodRevrnd - Friday, October 24, 2008 - link
Supposedly the SR also has "battery leakage" issues as well where it will drain over time even when it's off. I have a Z series and can hit 4-5 hours myself. That's at about 50-60% screen brightness, wifi on, pretty much everything else disabled, in stamina mode, with the processor pretty much sitting at Super LFM the whole time.danwat1234 - Sunday, May 6, 2018 - link
Still rocking this laptop today, with an X9100 Core 2 Duo Penryn at 3.45GHZ via multiplyer overclocking. Installed the 17 fin Forcecon fan while I was at it, the same that's comes with the Asus G51VX and G51J for more airflow. 8GB of RAM.Still my main machine today. Refuses to die even with a few years of nearly 24/7 GPU & CPU thrashing at 90C +.. The chassis is beat up though, starting to crack on the main chassis around the hinges. But, can get a used 1 on Ebay for cheap.. Batteries no longer made for it so i have a few genuine 9-cell batteries in my fridge.
About time to upgrade to a Coffee Lake laptop maybe, but I like my Windows 7 setup.
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