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Upcoming advances in notebooks

post #1 of 14
Thread Starter 
I am particulary interested in the next year or two for high performance laptop gaming. I am currently looking into the Alienware m9750, but it still seems lacking for the price. Not that it isn't equiped with amazing components for a lappy, but I am on the border between buying and waiting for a decent SLI DX10 solution for say CRYSIS. I am also interested in USEFULL information on the future expected performance gains comparing dual core to quad core when software takes advantage of it.

My ideal Notebook would be a QuadCore, SLI DX10 FREAKIN FAST GPU, 4 GIGS of DDR3 and WIMAX. DUAL HDD, 17'.

Please understand I am a single father who works full time, is in school full time, and loves PC GAMING!!! I do not have much free time to research components and such as I would like, and would really appreciate you help.

This understandably might be an unrealistic setup so I am particularily interested in the viability of VISTA X64, software compatibility for 4 gig ram useage, and drivers, SLI if it will ever work with VISTA, and upcoming timeframes for really good mobile DX10 GPU's.
So basically an M9750 with quadcore, DX10, and perhaps WIMAX (not so importaunt)

This will be the last Notebook I will be able to buy for some time, so I need it to kick ass. HardCore ass.

Thanks guys,

CJOHN
post #2 of 14
Are mobile quadcore chipsets even on the horizon? I think you're looking at YEARS before any of this grade hardware comes to notebooks, and by that time desktops will be oct-core running 32 gigs of RAM maxed out. That and desktops are less expensive, easier to upgrade, and don't have issues like overheating as often.
post #3 of 14
Thread Starter 
I understand that, but I was under the impression that mobile quad would be out with 45nm next year. Also yes desktops will always be more powerful than a notebook until heat is no longer an issue, just like dragsters are more powerful than my taurus, I just am inexplicably drawn to the idea of a gaming notebook. The increible technology that is derived to power these notebooks is also an intelligent future of desktops. Power optimization and heat are issues that should be examined in the desktop realm as well. I appreciate your comment but it really does not pertain to my post. I am interested in what the next year specifically will hold for GPUS, RAM, and CPU/MB.

Thanks
post #4 of 14
well... if you want a kick ass notebook then wait till the m9750 gets dx10 in it. santa rosa just came out so yea i think its gona be a while before a quad core laptop comes out unless you want a C90 from asus wich uses a desktop cpu so you can drop a quad core in there i think. it comes with a dx10 card aswell so that may be what you want especialy because desktop cpu's beat teh crap out of laptop ones. it is run by the 8600M GT with 512mb but an sli 17inch version iscomeing out soon that uses desktop processors and two dx10 cards so that about fills out the specs you are looking for.

its the asus C90
post #5 of 14
Thread Starter 
Also, this is only a matter of engineering. The computer industry has put a tremendous amount of energy into building high performance desktop systems (without limitations) it is easier, but had notebook manufactures realized 10 years ago that we want high performance notebooks and even excepect them we would be much farther along than we are now. Just like the RISC processor. Intel and others invested substantially more money in I386 instruction CPUs, all the while RISC beat the pants off of them. Now who is king, I386. WHY??? Money, advertisments. What is that phrase, oh yea manifest destiny.
post #6 of 14
yeh i wish i had a GOOGLEcore notebook that did 3,423,523,523,452,523 in 3dmark06 too.
post #7 of 14
OK, forgive my ignorance, but what is a GOOGLEcore?
post #8 of 14
googol= one followed by 100 zeroes

googol core= imaginary/theoretical processor that contains the above number of processing cores

such a processor is unlikely to develop unless quantum computing is perfected and brought into mainstream use
post #9 of 14
sorry i was being a F@@k face.
post #10 of 14
Got it!
post #11 of 14
Can we stop talking about the future of laptops I just bought this one =(
post #12 of 14
One thing that is new, and available, that will save on power, and increase laptop performance, are Solid State hard drives. While expensive right now, w/in a year or so, they should be affordable. Just RAID 0 four of these babies.
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post #13 of 14
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Originally Posted by globel View Post
Can we stop talking about the future of laptops I just bought this one =(
Just be happy with what you got man. Technology stops and waits for no man.
post #14 of 14
Take it easy globel. Not because a new (or slightly faster) technology is on the horizon that doesn't mean that the stuff you just bought will die and everything will refuse to run on it.

If you choose your stuff right, you will be able to squeeze performance from a computer for a good 3-4 years.
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