Posts by Fusion

If you go to college (high school maybe) you can get the M60 at quite a discount. I'm getting my M60 with some good specs (1.6ghz, 7200rpm hardrive, dvd-rom/cd-rw) for around $2,800. Just don't buy your RAM through Dell, buy that...

I'm in the same boat, sort of. Although I would benefit from a full fledged P4 (for 3d rendering work), the battery life would suck, and most importantly, the laptop would be bulky and heavy. Not that there's a big problem with that,...

For what you are going to be using the computer for, a pentium-M will be just fine. You aren't going to need a full fledged desktop processor since you aren't running powerful software like photoshop or 3dsmax. Most important for you...

The ODM for the Voodoo M355 is Compal. I believe they are a company based out of Taiwan. The also make the Voodoo M700 (which is the hypersonic ZX7, 4760, etc.).

You'll be fine with a 4200rpm hard drive, as USB 2.0, at a peak bandwidth of 60MB/sec isn't fast enough to notice a difference between 5400 and 4200. Plus the 4200 speed hard drive will drain less power too. Not quite the test you...

The centrino is actually the ideal solution for a laptop. Not only is it powerful and fast, it's not power-hungry. Intel P4 chips are among the hotest, most power hungry chips (some figures put the 3.06Ghz P4 at 100W power usage, but...

Quote: from the article: DDR 400 is not SO-DIMM The [DDR 400] 1GB SO-DIMM...

That's a good point. I think the idea behind the original post is that yes, some people would definatly benefit from the use of a laptop at college, but a blanket statement that everyone needs a laptop is perposterous.

Quote: Originally posted by outsider say you are an architecture school with 400 students, do you buy 400 workstations for them to work on learning the skills of the trade or make them buy laptops, which incidentally almost...

Alright! What to do plan on using it for? Why the Quadro over the Geforce... I'm seriously considering this computer for college as well... I'd rather have the power of the P4, but I don't want the weight... I'd be intereseted in how...