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Buy now or wait ?

post #1 of 9
9/22/08 at 5:54pm
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I have a 5000$ budget to buy an 17" Dell XPS notebook

Should I go now and save around 600$ but be stuck with the buggy 8800 GTX SLI ... with Core 2 Extreme X9000

or

Wait for new XPS with Quad Core and Nvidia 9800 ?

Any news on the next XPS to come ?
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post #2 of 9
9/23/08 at 11:33am
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Anyone ?
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post #3 of 9
9/24/08 at 2:57pm
I haven't been following along on the XPS's development, but the rule of thumb is to always wait until you NEED a new laptop to buy, and once you do, stop watching what's about to come out and the prices on what you just bought. Saves a lot of buyers remorse.
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post #4 of 9
9/25/08 at 12:59am
Actually if you got 5 large to spend, might want to wait a week or two for the Precision M6400 It will have quad core, no SLI, but a 1GB Quadro card. Should be a real demon of a laptop.
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post #5 of 9
9/25/08 at 3:47pm
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Originally Posted by MrEvil View Post
Actually if you got 5 large to spend, might want to wait a week or two for the Precision M6400 It will have quad core, no SLI, but a 1GB Quadro card. Should be a real demon of a laptop.
Yeah pick one of these up, they're up on the website now and even though they're expensive, they're pretty good buys for how great of a system you get
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post #6 of 9
9/28/08 at 1:40pm
If it were me, I'd wait. Why? Because of some of the video chip problems nVidia is having. I've read that the next 9800 series won't have these over-heating problems.

Normally, I'd say why wait, but I've suffered from the nVidia over-heat problems. You don't what that.
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post #7 of 9
9/29/08 at 2:00am
buy one from teh outlet and save the 50% for future upgrades
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post #8 of 9
9/30/08 at 1:08am
Personally I've learned, keep a laptop for what it is portable... If you need advance graphics go with a desktop IMHO... I've spent two large as Mr. E says only to get 1/4 of that back in return, and this is less than 1 1/2 years, after my purchase... The ultimate decision is yours but for 5 large you could have an awesome desktop, a great laptop, and some $$$ left in your pocket... JMHO...
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post #9 of 9
9/30/08 at 12:54pm
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Originally Posted by MadCnty View Post
Personally I've learned, keep a laptop for what it is portable... If you need advance graphics go with a desktop IMHO... I've spent two large as Mr. E says only to get 1/4 of that back in return, and this is less than 1 1/2 years, after my purchase... The ultimate decision is yours but for 5 large you could have an awesome desktop, a great laptop, and some $$$ left in your pocket... JMHO...
I would have to agree. If you allotted only $2000 for a desktop, you could build one ripping system and then pay maybe $700-$1000 on a M1330 or M1530 for a more mobile platform that can still play games to some extent.

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