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post #1 of 9
9/8/08 at 11:58pm
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I was wondering if anyone knows anything about three different things about AW notebooks.

1. Any news on when quad cores are going to make their debut in an AW notebook?
2. Any news on having a 9800 GTX in their notebooks? I mean gateway already has one! Come on AW
3 . A black ripley design for the 15" notebook
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post #2 of 9
9/9/08 at 12:38am
The gateway doesnt have a 9800 GTX in it... it has a 9800GTS not as powerful as a 9800 GTX... alienware is not the first(most of the time) to the market with new technology....I am doubting if they are going to do a black ripley in the 15 inch I would have thought we would have seen it by now...
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post #3 of 9
9/9/08 at 1:05am
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oppps your right, a 9800GTS I dont even know if there is a 9800GTX in any notebook. I am sad to hear that you think they are not going to do a black case as I am really digging the black. Perhaps they will be coming out with a new model with quad cores and 9800 series.
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post #4 of 9
9/9/08 at 2:00am
They will.... eventually. But be prepared to wait.

It took AW 9+ months to get a Santa Rosa to market and that was considered an evolution of the previous platform(small change)

Monte's have been out for almost 3 months and thats a much more significant change over SR's. And AW has had NO word on that refresh.

Ontop of that the next big intel refresh is scheduled for Q4 2008 (mobile quad cores on a new chipset) The hp's, toshibas and sony's should have those out by holiday or January at the latest if history holds.

But seeing as AW has been historically LATE to market with new mobile tech, it could very well be a year before you see a quad laptop from AW.

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As far as black 15x skullcap or ripley, they showed off both at the product launch presser, my guess is they ran into some kind of quality Manufacture issue that kept them from bring em to market already, and by the time they got it straightened out (17x launch) they decided to not ship em in order to distinguish/push the 17x models.

My guess is that you'll see em on the first refresh of the 15x, but as I pointed out, that could still be a LONG ways off
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post #5 of 9
9/9/08 at 10:07am
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thank you
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post #6 of 9
9/9/08 at 10:43am
If you want a quad core and a 9800M GTX you should be looking at Sager.

http://www.sagernotebook.com/product....php?pid=29175
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post #7 of 9
9/9/08 at 1:42pm
Personally I would stay away from Desktop processors in a laptop. Too Much Heat and prone to problems. I think Mobile Quad Core processors are just around the corner so you would have to wait or "Risk" going with a desktop processor in a laptop...I honestly don't think there are many applications out there yet that fully support or for a better word use the Quad the way its meant to be used anyway. I think it just helps in Multi Tasking.

I heard rumors that the 9800GTX is going to be available soon from AW.
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post #8 of 9
9/9/08 at 3:23pm
To further echo what Rod said, quad core laptops are Uber useless for power gaming in the traditional sense.

Most Games today are single threaded so they dont use 2 cores much less four, second, games that ARE multithreaded have not been written/optimized over time for 4+ cores and so going from 2 to 4 will not see any major jump in gaming performance. Third, current gen dual core mobile processors are more than up to the task of the heaviest gaming requirements out now as ALL high end games are GPU limited on both desktops AND laptops.

If ASUS ever came out with their XgamerStation external SLI pciXpress video card thing, then I imaging you could squeeze 95% of high end Desktop gaming on a laptop just because current games are bottlenecked by gpus WAY before cpu.

Point being, quad core aint gunna help gaming much if at all in the immediate and near future, and that probably wont change until there are 8+ cores(maybe even mpgpu/cpu's) for devs to go massively parallel against, say when Larrabee comes out......
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post #9 of 9
9/9/08 at 8:55pm
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good tips guys!
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