Any notebook with a X800

NO...the MRx800 is just being release.... you can purchase it separately from Europe for $3k. Whoa!

Soon.

The precious will be mine.

First to offer a pre-order maybe. Sager is the leading Clevo reseller and continues to offer the most up to date products available on the market. I have no doubt that they may not be the 1st will to allow pre-orders, but they should be the 1st to ship it out.

i waaaannt it noooow!!! bbwwwrrraagghhhhhhhgghghggh!!!!!


*meltdown*

U could buy it from rockdirect. They ship overseas.

Since it is available now in the UK, anyone care to speculate when PC Torque will have it?

Why is it that these last few generation of notebooks have been using the P4? When the A64 is clearly superior in gaming, AND has less heat issues?

Availability... As much as I would love to get and A64 notebook with an ATI X800 card in it, Intel and Nvidia have superior manufacturing capacity, and they can afford to offer better incentives to bulk purchasers than AMD and ATI.... I know it sucks...

That's a little hard to believe... because EVERY manufacturer has been using AMD except Dell, and they've been threatening too as well unless Intel offers better prices and incentives. And besides, Clevo (which are what the Sagers really are) already have notebooks using AMD.

Ive heard AMD is superior in gaming over intels HT but i hear that HT runs applications better than amd 64.....

HT? You mean Hyper-threading?

The main advantage that the Pentium 4 processors have over Athlon 64 processors in single application settings is in encoding. In particular, video encoding.

However, there is one area where Pentium 4 processors shine, and that's multi-application environments. If you've got ten programs running at once, would you want one fast computer or two slower ones? Two slower ones! Bingo. Hyperthreading is a feature of the Pentium 4 that creates a virtual processor, allowing the processor to handle more than one "thread" (application, basically) simultaneously. This has a very good effect on multi-tasking.

However, multi-core processors are on their way, and that'll make Hyperthreading into just another joke.

As for the availability problem with Athlon 64s...It is present, to a degree. That's why Dell is now strongly considering implementing AMD Opteron-using servers into their lineup. They're not, however, considering implementing Athlon 64 processors into their lineup. Why? AMD can't meet the demand for consumer processors. They can meet them on high-end stations, and they can meet them in the locations they're implemented now, but they can't take even half of what Dell would have to shove on them. This has nothing to do with the lack of PCI-Express-using notebooks, however.

That's caused by a pair of things. One is a marketing impetus - Intel seems to be pushing very strongly to have the top-of-the-line notebook of every manufacturer an Intel model. That's why there was no 8750/whatever the number would be for an Athlon 64-based 8790 type system. Another is simply the lack of chipsets. There are barely any PCI-Express motherboards out for Athlon 64 processors, even in the desktop market. We can't expect too much in the mobile market right now.

so where is my mrX800?

Isnt the X800 only a Radeon9700/9800? for PCI-E ?

The new Sagar 9860 due in 8-10 days are suppossed to have x800 cards and several other enhancements to make it more user configurable.
Check pctorque.com in the next week or two.

How do you know that?