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So I have to buy a new laptop for my studies next year.
I'm planning on buying one of the DV7 series of HP.
There are two almoast the same laptops, but one has a:
- 500 GB SATA HARD DRIVE 7200 RPM
and the other has a:
- 750 GB SATA HARD DRIVE 5400 RPM

is the RPM important, becuase the 250GB extra gigabytes would be useful.
Thanks

I consider rpm only important for games year 2007+, to load all the textures and stuff, but if you not gaming or designing any form of media the 750gb be good, but at the same time why would u need 750gb?

I consider rpm only important for games year 2007+, to load all the textures and stuff, but if you not gaming or designing any form of media the 750gb be good, but at the same time why would u need 750gb?

I'm not going to use it for gaming but maybe i'll need it for designing
i could use the 750 GB for all the movies and music I have.
Right now i only have 300 GB movies and music but next month i won't have any downloading limit anymore (finally!!) so it will get a lot faster above the 500 GB

750 one for a laptop for sure.

What cache do they have? Its better to have one with high cache rather than low cache and higher capacity.

Both have an intel core i5 processeor with 3MB cache

well then go with the 750gb

I went from a 7200 320GB to a 5400 1TB on my laptop and haven't noticed a difference, except for not running out of HD space (so far).

A laptop's gaming abilities are limited, I don't think it's very realistic that the RPM would play a big role since you aren't blazing cats in the first place.

Sylar wrote:Both have an intel core i5 processeor with 3MB cache

He meant the HDD cache, which is normally 8-16MB on laptops.

You won't notice a difference most likely, and if you do it won't be much. Go for more hdd space. More RPM also generally means more heat, again probably not noticeable.