Posts by DocEGM

Find Commish, he has coupons. But seriously, folks....You might look at Toshiba, IBM, Sony, or Acer. At least one of those companies should be able to configure a notebook with those specs in that price range.

You're correct, in that it's mostly a matter of opinion. I went with the nVidia, I know plenty of people went with the ATI, and I'm sure that most people are quite happy with their decision.

I have a single blue pixel on my 7700, and I really don't care. If I want to see it, I have to go to an all-black image and focus on the spot; it takes me at least a minute to see it. These 7700 screens have 1764000 pixels on them, and I...

I doubt you'll notice a whole lot of difference in speed between them, unless you do a LOT of HDD intensive tasks--large-scale video or 3d editing, gigantic digital projects, etc. For gaming, you'll notice a slight increase when a game...

That sounds to me like a problem with your hard drive. You might want to break down and reformat it, if nothing's helping.

I don't think the 7700 eyes change color, really. From what I've read, they don't, at least.

Congrats, honorable one.

Do you have internal wireless? It might have fired up at the factory and found a wireless network or six. My 7700 shipped yesterday, with a 30.0 lb box. It doesn't seem too ludicrous, really; 15 pound laptop/power supply, XL backpack,...

Nah, the cards support 1680x1050. A lot of games support 1680x1050 as well; those that don't, you can run in 1440x900 or something close.

We'll see how the Dell users feel when they get their non-optimized XPS2 and turn it on...five and a half seconds of GeForce 6800 Go Ultra bliss, then...explosion. I dunno, I like Dell well enough (I own three Dell systems, for that...