Posts by ARcanUSNUMquam

No, read/write rates on the hard drive cant even approach the theoretical limit of 1.5 gbit on the SATA.

Quote: Originally Posted by thesaladman Is Sager trustable?? The prices are pretty low....anyone have any experience with Sagers?? I would trust a Sager notebook from a reputable reseller over a big company any...

I would recommend the Sager NP9262. It has a desktop class processor so you'll get way better performance in CPU-intensive applications than any mobile processor and SLI'd 8800s. http://www.sagernotebook.com/product...tion=customize

Maybe $5 an hour. Only if VPN, IPsec, and PPTP are allowed.

Hybrid SLI on Laptops means that nvidia is going to offer a laptop chipset, but all indications are that nvidia has a lot of work to do to get the power consumption and heat down, so I don't think we'll see Hybrid SLI on laptops anytime...

From what I remember, the express card slot is PCI-E x1, so I don't know how you're going to get around the limitations of that. Also, ASUS showed off such a product at CES 2007. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XG_Station But their...

RAM, processor, then HDD. 4GB of RAM is really the sweet spot for Vista, so the closer you can get to that the better. HDD spin rate speed increases yield marginal performance boosts at best. You're already accessing your data on the...

I got the T61p. It should be arriving by Tuesday.

Quote: Originally Posted by State.Ops best 17" offering is this one http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11257624&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&eCat=BC|84|56670|4580&N=4017750&Mo ...

It depends on the game. If the game is properly multithreaded, then the quad would do better. If the game is not, then the pure clock rate would outperform the quad. For real numbers about games and processor comparisons, look at sites...