Hi all. New to this forum. I am on the brink of a Dell purchase for my personal use through my company, but I am stuck on the graphics. I want the best LCD panel (UXGA/WUXGA) and graphics chipset. The 8600 is a sweet little machine, but it's quite a price premium over a silimarly equipped 5150 (3.06GHz 5150 vs. a 1.6GHz 8600). The biggest issue is that the software my company produces, and I use, is quite graphics intensive. It tends not to play nice with many 'consumer' grade graphics cards. We have an 8600 in-house for demos with the nVidia 64Mb 5200go. It locks up frequently with 32bit color and WUXGA rez. Downing it to 16 bit helps, but I generally have to truncate the rez to SXGA to get to be happy. This of course makes everything look soft and stretched. The wide aspect panels are awesome for DVD and internet and many desktop apps, but there are other issues involved for me in doing my work.
I am looking for anyone's guess/info on what Dell plans to do on the graphics side of their 'standard' panel laptops i.e. 5150 or 5200 (?).
Thanks in advance.
- Dieter
I am looking for anyone's guess/info on what Dell plans to do on the graphics side of their 'standard' panel laptops i.e. 5150 or 5200 (?).
Thanks in advance.
- Dieter
