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post #21 of 25
4/22/04 at 11:58pm
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It's getting close, I think that by the end of the year you will see a really powerful notebook. I know this because I work in the industry.

-CPUs will increase in speed (up to 4Ghz)
-GPUs with 8 pipes or more and 256/512MB will be available
-hard drives will increase in capacity to 120GB or more...
-PCI-E chipset with fast serial ata, 8-channel high def sound
-17" 19x12 lcd with fast response times
-DDR 2 high speed system memory (533, 667, 800Mhz)

Steve
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post #22 of 25
4/23/04 at 3:52am
the thing is when this time comes, the desktop powerhouse will be much better than this as well. So I don't think you can ever fully expect the notebook powerhouses to catch up with desktop powerhouses
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post #23 of 25
4/23/04 at 9:34am
Well steve if you worked in the industy you should of forseen that the XPS wouldn't have met your expectations and waited for the laptops at the end of the year LOL....

Cause you work in the industry....
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post #24 of 25
4/23/04 at 10:28am
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Originally Posted by HeLLSpiRE
the thing is when this time comes, the desktop powerhouse will be much better than this as well. So I don't think you can ever fully expect the notebook powerhouses to catch up with desktop powerhouses
True. If ATI and NVIDIA are releasing desktop graphics cards that need 450+ watt power supplies and 2 supplemental power cable attachments (like the 6800) I can't see how you can put that in a laptop. You'd have to wait until they figured out how to get the power consumption down to something half-way manageable. But by that time, at the desktop end an even more powerful (and power hungry) card will come out...

Basically, the same advancements that allow them to make all the power available NOW portable in 6 months also allows them to make something even more powerful that doesn't have the size, weight, and heat limitations a laptop imposes. As long as the capabilities keep advancing, desktops will always have more brute force.
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post #25 of 25
4/23/04 at 5:55pm
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Well I don't disagree with you guys about a desktop having the upper hand, but there is a point where 'desktop replacement' high performance notebooks will be just a notch below desktop performance.

I do agree that Nvidia is on the wrong path, but hell I never liked Nvidia anyways. FWIW the ATI X800 card requires only one connector and doesn't require a huge power supply.

I think we will definitely see a variant of the X800 in a notebook this year...

So with this in mind, I just wanted to give the XPS a try, and it didn't cost me anything, but there's more issue to that notebook than just the graphics, it's the overall system performance.

I think Dell should stick to Dothan and the new Alviso chipset and forget about using desktop chipsets in notebooks...

Steve
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