Note: This topic is not for the faint of arms.
What I would like is a laptop with the following:
17" widescreen LCD, preferably WSXGA+ or higher.
Full-size keyboard, preferably with number pad.
An internal TV tuner with no delay.
A Radeon x800 Mobility or a GeForce Go 6800 in a STANDARDIZED (MxM/AxIOM/whatever) socket.
A Low Power Mobile Athlon 64 processor.
The use of a mobile version of the AMD chipset/motherboard/whatever you'd like me to call it with support for PCI-Express and Athlon 64 processors and the integrated graphics core.
The option to turn the power-sucking main video card off and run entirely off of that lovely, surely barely battery-sipping integrated graphics card.
Four hours or more of maximum battery life (while the machine is IN USE for word processing or other light tasks, with the gaming battery performance dropping below that being acceptable, particularly with the discrete graphics activated.)
That's about all. I'm willing to pay an extra $100 or even $200 for that integrated graphics card, provided that it gives a serious boost to battery.
My point? I don't have one. I just felt like saying this and hoping that someone who works for a magical company that loves me will read this and announce sometime in January (my personal cutoff) that this machine is coming. Soon.
And yes, I do realize that it would probably need to be built like a DTR to handle the cooling and power for that video card. No problem. I may have skinny little girl arms, but I don't have a problem with ten pounds.
What I would like is a laptop with the following:
17" widescreen LCD, preferably WSXGA+ or higher.
Full-size keyboard, preferably with number pad.
An internal TV tuner with no delay.
A Radeon x800 Mobility or a GeForce Go 6800 in a STANDARDIZED (MxM/AxIOM/whatever) socket.
A Low Power Mobile Athlon 64 processor.
The use of a mobile version of the AMD chipset/motherboard/whatever you'd like me to call it with support for PCI-Express and Athlon 64 processors and the integrated graphics core.
The option to turn the power-sucking main video card off and run entirely off of that lovely, surely barely battery-sipping integrated graphics card.
Four hours or more of maximum battery life (while the machine is IN USE for word processing or other light tasks, with the gaming battery performance dropping below that being acceptable, particularly with the discrete graphics activated.)
That's about all. I'm willing to pay an extra $100 or even $200 for that integrated graphics card, provided that it gives a serious boost to battery.
My point? I don't have one. I just felt like saying this and hoping that someone who works for a magical company that loves me will read this and announce sometime in January (my personal cutoff) that this machine is coming. Soon.
And yes, I do realize that it would probably need to be built like a DTR to handle the cooling and power for that video card. No problem. I may have skinny little girl arms, but I don't have a problem with ten pounds.






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