The 2GB will probably be slower memory and as a result will probably be slower overall.

Just a piece of advice, if you have an ICICI card, use that while shopping at Chroma, you will get 5% cash back upto 5k, also there is a free iPad every hour contest, just check out today's TOI for T&S.

Originally Posted by Chaos

The 2GB will probably be slower memory and as a result will probably be slower overall.

Both the Models use Nvidia GeForce 540M graphics card. Is it possible that there can be slower and faster variants in the same model?? I'm a little ignorant regards GPUs..



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Originally Posted by vivek.krishnan

Just a piece of advice, if you have an ICICI card, use that while shopping at Chroma, you will get 5% cash back upto 5k, also there is a free iPad every hour contest, just check out today's TOI for T&S.

Thanks for the info..

the Chroma reps didn't inform me about any such offers going on. Anyways neither me nor anyone in my family or friends owns an ICICI card.



They were, however, giving away a 500gb hard disk though...My primary focus stays on getting a value laptop... a little extra money spent wont be a problem..

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M - Notebookcheck.net Tech



Has support for both, but no mention of which is faster. But if possible, go with GDDR5 as that will be better.



Also, regarding the HDD offer, i think it can be used in conjunction with the above offer. Where do you stay? You could ask any TE member to help you out, who has a ICICI CC.

Originally Posted by vivek.krishnan

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M - Notebookcheck.net Tech



Has support for both, but no mention of which is faster. But if possible, go with GDDR5 as that will be better.



Also, regarding the HDD offer, i think it can be used in conjunction with the above offer. Where do you stay? You could ask any TE member to help you out, who has a ICICI CC.

Thanks for the reply...



Both 5755G & 5830TG use DDR3 Memory.. so this point is clear..



Now any final opinions as to which one should i buy?



I live in Surat, Gujarat.

Unfortunately, seem to have misread the paper, ICICI Bank Online Offers : Enjoy additional discount on your festive shopping with ICICI Bank Credit & Debit Cards



Here it says max cash back is 1000.



Ipad2 contest :ICICI Bank Online Offers : An iPad 2 up for grabs, every hour!



Well, calling all ICICI bank credit/debit card holder in Surat, Gujarat for helping this chap!

All right, read some forums and posts on the net and have come to the conclusion that 2GB of GPU is virtually an eye-candy for the graphic card as the present card 540M does not have enough capacity to utilize 1GB properly, let alone 2GB. Also, the 5830TG comes with a 500GB portable hard disk... now its merely about 5830tg ( 3gb ram + 500 gb hd + 500gb external hd) vs 5755G ( 4gb ram vs 750 gb)..



And I've decided to go with 5830TG since the better build quality and 250gb of extra storage space is worth more than 1 gb of ram (in case of 5755)...



Thanks to vivek.krishnan and chaos for taking active interest in helping me out..

^ Good choice (But in the earlier versions there was some throttling issues in the 5830TG. Do check out whether they have been rectified now through updates)

Originally Posted by techcraze

All right, read some forums and posts on the net and have come to the conclusion that 2GB of GPU is virtually an eye-candy for the graphic card as the present card 540M does not have enough capacity to utilize 1GB properly, let alone 2GB. Also, the 5830TG comes with a 500GB portable hard disk... now its merely about 5830tg ( 3gb ram + 500 gb hd + 500gb external hd) vs 5755G ( 4gb ram vs 750 gb)..



And I've decided to go with 5830TG since the better build quality and 250gb of extra storage space is worth more than 1 gb of ram (in case of 5755)...



Thanks to vivek.krishnan and chaos for taking active interest in helping me out..

which 5830TG are you buying? theres one with i5 and other with i3...also, do post some review of the laptop once you get it...

Originally Posted by red_devil

which 5830TG are you buying? theres one with i5 and other with i3...also, do post some review of the laptop once you get it...

got the i5 one.. Also got a "Zen pack" free and a "Killer pack" free after some bargaining at Chroma..at a price of 41K



Zen Pack contains a mouse, card reader, mouse-pad and a LCD screen cleaning liquid and a brush (which is useless considering the chicklet style keyboard).



Killer Pack contains a Watch (definitely not worth of being called a timepiece), an Eyewear, a small towel, a deodorant, a water bottle, a wrist sweat-soaker(dunno what they call it) and god knows what else...



and now realized that they didn't supply a HDMI cable. Gotta go and buy that tomorrow.



Would post the review in a week after fully testing it..

techcraze, Awaiting your review. I am also planing to get a 5830TG in a week, but the i3 one. Let us know how the experience is.

Hows the 5830TG performing ...Awaiting your review

its performing good so far... has a great battery life (around 4 hours while performing demanding tasks)..





The only downside i came across was that it gets heated up ( I haven't owned a laptop before so i don't know whether its normal or not. Secondly, here in surat, temperatures are high as summer, so that could also be a reason for over heating, dunno how it would behave in winters.)



Secondly, ever since I had bought the lappy, I was mostly busy with

1. Downloading Windows 7 (No installation media came along with it, except an image of factory state windows, but i find it useless with all the crapware that comes installed with it.)

2. Formatting it (Acer idiots formatted the 500gb hard disk with a single 465 GB partition, alongwith an image of Factory State Windows on a hidden partition of 15Gb which i think is a pure wastage.)



and



3. Downloading and Installing the drivers back.



So i haven't installed a game yet, would be doing that shortly and would comment on that performance later.



Bottomline, its a good laptop. I have watched a couple of movies (regular and HD), hooked up with HDTV. Performance was satisfactory on all the counts. So i would reccommend you to Go ahead and buy it.



P.S. Its colour definitely makes it stand apart from the standard black laptop crowd.