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| The chipset will probably be ok but cannot stand up to a 800Mhs FSB unless Dell plans to revise this as soon as the new one is available. |
Of course it will not be comparable to the 800FSB. However bearing in mind the current DESKTOP max is 533FSB and performance of the Radeon 9600 with this FSB on a Desktop is still AWESOME so the 400 FSB although not Ideal will still have spectacular results.
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| Nice call here - only - is the 4200 Go up to the M-10 ?? Or will Dell replace this as an upgrade to the FX series for the current customers?? |
The 4200 Go is not upto the M10 but is currently the fastest Graphics card available in a production laptop. Dell will be a EARLY adopter of the M10 and Geforce FX as they always are in their laptops.. And as with previous Dell laptops the DELL video cards are easily USER upgradeable to the latest card which I have done on 2 occassions so far.
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| Unless these are 7200 rpm or faster everything above will be effectively smothered. I think performance potential will be cut down by 30% if these are 5400 rpm drives!! |
Yes indeed Laptop HD's will always be the limiting factor - However I would rather they released with a 5400 rpm than wait for the 7200RPM - Again HD's can be changed easily changed by user when there is a 7200 rpm available.
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| Anyone wanna pay for this ?? LOL : Unless DELL is ok with you swapping memory on your own (I THINK NOT) then you are going to be paying enormous amounts, ridiculous sum IMO, for the RAM |
This is incorrect. DELL is fine with users changing memory on their own and give you instructions in the USER guide on how to do this. With regard to the cost - There are no 1GB SODIMMS available for laptops at the moment so the current MAX in a laptop is 1GB of Memory. With regard to cost the price for laptop memory from places like crucial or kingston are not that expensive these days - Both companies are known to produce some of the best memory in the world. eg Today 512mb SoDimm is round about $149.00 after discounts. I always buy my laptops with minimum memory from the laptop seller and get my memory cheaper from crucial
I think most laptop companies will be going with the Pentium M class processor - agreed the performance will not really be as good as a desktop 3.0 HT however if you look at the fastest available Pentium M 1.6ghz which is performing the same as a 2.4 Ghz DESKTOP processor combined with 5 hour battery life they are pretty amazing - I think we will see 2.0Ghz Pentium M's by the end of the year performing the same as a 2.8 Ghz Desktop if not greater.
With the new M10 which produces very low heat compared to the 4200 go and Radeon 9000 I will not be suprised to see a Laptop as thin and as light as Toshiba Portege with a M10 and 2.0ghz Pentium M under the hood - Lovely.
