Dell Inspiron 1525 vs emachines E442-V133 ???

[Afternoon Nap]

Could you please help me compare these 2 laptops?

The emachines is a lot worse at playing anime (especially 1080p 10bit) despite being seemingly better equipped than the Dell one.

When the emachines plays 1080p 10bit, CPU usage is to the roof, constantly 100%; and the playback quality is not even acceptable (either choppy video or interrupted audio--unexpected silence here and there--as if the CPU is out of juice).

On the other hand, the Dell Inspiron 1525 plays everything smoothly, and its CPU usage is not even that high. Not just playing anime, the CPU usage of Dell always seems to be lower, even below 10% and at 0%. That of emachines, however, is always at least about 25% even when doing nothing.

 

Here are some specs on the two:

 

          Dell Inspiron 1525                                               emachines E442-V133

 

OS     Windows Vista Home Premium                            Windows 7 Home Premium

          32-bit                                                                          64-bit

CPU   Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 2.0 GHz                         AMD V140 2.30 GHz

RAM   3.00 GB                                                                  2.00 GB (1.74 GB usable)

GPU   Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family        ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250

 

I'm not sure but I guess the emachines' GPU is better than the Dell's because there were some games I used to play on the emachines that the Dell couldn't handle. Plus, one CPU is 2.30 GHz, the other 2.0 GHz.

 

I'm thinking of Diskpart clean the emachines and reinstalling windows 7. Even though I have recovery partition, I notice that after I did the similar thing to the Dell laptop, it became more powerful. All the junky stuff that came from manufacturer's gone.

 

Thanks

Edited August 10, 2014 by ounce

[JohnFlower]

The V140 is a single core... But both CPUs are pretty low-end.

RAM speaks for itself.

Both 'GPUs' are integrated. The HD 4250 is likely better, according to you.

Your performance problems lie in the hardware. Both laptops are shit. Reformatting wont magically spawn more processing power.

[Koby]

Dell-branded stuff = overpriced vs. same parts under different brands.

eMachines = pre-loaded with tons of shitty stuff to make money. So you have a lot of stuff you have to mess with removing and changing.

 

As for these two in particular vs each other.

 

Both are low-end crap; I'd prefer the emachines though just cause AMD; but that ram is so low you won't be able to do much at all without being bogged down.

the Dell uses shitty Vista, but has at least a little more ram to do shit.

 

Honestly these days you would want a minimum of 4GB ram or don't bother. A lot of shit won't run with less.

[Afternoon Nap]

They're both very old. But the Dell laptop still gets the job done pretty well for me at playing videos; and that's pretty much all I need. I was wondering if the problem of the emachines in video-playback was because of its inferior hardware compared to the Dell or something else.

Edited August 11, 2014 by ounce

[Koby]

Well as JohnFlower stated, the Dell has two cores, while the emachines was a single core.

The Dell also has an extra gig of ram in comparison.

The only thing the emachine has going for it is Win7 and a slightly better gfx card.

 

Intel 965 Express
Passmark G3D Mark: 78

Radeon HD 4250
Passmark G3D Mark: 163

The ram is where it's at though on these two. 2GB is just too small to be sufficient with these OS'.

It's leaving you with little to no room for doing anything and likely getting bogged down when you try to play videos as a result.

[ZeroPenguins]

No! They got it all wrong! IT'S THE OS, Vista > 7 that's why!