Posts by tdewey10

Quote: Originally Posted by INTP I'm confused here. What's the difference between the XPS and the 9100? An astute ploy at market discrimination? Still no indication that the XPS is going anywhere beyond one video...

Quote: Originally Posted by IntgrSpin It's 800MHz. Look to the Dell forums. On the downside, I hear that Intel is dropping the socket 478 3.6GHz+ Prescotts. It looks like there won't be much in the way of CPU...

Quote: Originally Posted by mjolnir I hope its some 9700 goodness Aaargh. Then I'd have to send my just ordered 8600 back it arrives on the 5th. I'll bet it is more likely the 5700...in which case I won't do...

Quote: Originally Posted by rchess Check those specs. It is capable of 6 bit color. Bleh. Pretty much every laptop screen is only capable of 6-bit color. There have been long discussions of this in other...

I originally argued with MD on this issue but I've come to agree with him so I passed on the 8790 and bought a "cheap" 8600 to hold me until Q4/04 Q1/05 when PCI-Express and the M12 or its successor should be available.

So the Hitachi WSXGA+ screens are gone???

Quote: Originally Posted by Neison Interesting. There are newer drivers out -- the posts you linked were from last November -- but I don't know how they fare against the M10-P/M-11. I prefer nVidia products because of...

Quote: Originally Posted by hrana Yes please post the part number for the Quardo FX go 1000. I'd like to swap it out. Also, can someone refer me to the part # for the ati pro turbo card. Lastly, is it true that we...

Quote: Originally Posted by Neison If the FireGL is slower than the 9600 then ATI is stupid. What you've stated is NOT the case in the nVidia market. The fact is that Quadro cards run at least equal to their non-GL...

But it has the Open-GL Optimizations right? If it is like the 9600/Fire GL, then games won't run quite as fast as the non-GL part. This makes me think the M10-P may still have the advantage in performace unless you can use regular 5700...