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post #21 of 68
2/4/05 at 3:52pm
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Originally Posted by G-M
do you guys think that the T in the screenname stands for "true glare" ?
No, it stands for "trademark" and modifies "UltraSharp."
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post #22 of 68
2/4/05 at 4:09pm
The presence of AGP signals the absence of PCI-X. There is virtually no difference in performance between 4x and 8x AGP. DDR2 and 533Mhz FSB should give a nice boost though. Given these specs it would seem the i9300 is an incremental improvement on the i9200. A nice laptop, but not the "Dragon Slayer" some people have been making it out to be.
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post #23 of 68
2/4/05 at 4:18pm
I know I shoudn't be happy - but I am... Me and my 9200....
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post #24 of 68
2/4/05 at 4:32pm
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Originally Posted by acruxksa
The presence of AGP signals the absence of PCI-X.
PCI-e, not PCI-x, there is a difference.
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post #25 of 68
2/4/05 at 4:39pm
PCI-e (I stand corrected). It would appear that neither is on the i9300 though.
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post #26 of 68
2/4/05 at 6:13pm
That has to be a mistake or it's different in the UK.
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post #27 of 68
2/4/05 at 6:21pm
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Originally Posted by ami111
The DELL so called inspiron 9300 is here. Here are the specs.

InspironTM 9300 - LIST-N03936
Intel® CentrinoT Mobile Technology with Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (1.73GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 400MHz FSB) & Intel® Pro/Wireless 2100 (802.11b)

Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM

80GB Hard Drive

17.0 Ultrasharp T Wide Screen UXGA (1920x1200)

ATI ® MOBILITY RADEON T 9700 128MB

Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive#

56K Data Fax Modem

1 Year Euro Collect and Return Service


Link is as below :-

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/to...hs1&l=en&s=dhs
You think that link is funny...
Check out this one:

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/to...hs1&l=de&s=dhs

or...
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/to...hs1&l=en&s=dhs

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!! 6800 CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/to...f=lg&~lt=print

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTT!
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post #28 of 68
2/4/05 at 6:34pm
A mistake?

Probably... The spec says it's a Centrino, which means that i has a intel chipset.
As far as I know, only Intels new PCIe chipsets (9xx) support a 533MHz FSB, and none of those chipsets support AGP, according to this:
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets...comparison.htm

Soo... it the spec is correct, then Dell has a special version of either the gfx kard or chipset.. which I realy don't think is the case.
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post #29 of 68
2/4/05 at 6:36pm
That's more like it. Looks like Germany is the first to get the go6800.

InspironTM 9300 - LIST-N03937
Intel® CentrinoT Mobiltechnologie, Intel® Pentium® M Prozessor 750 (1.86 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 533 MHZ FSB) Intel® PRO/Wireless Netzwerkverbindung 802.11b/g

Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition (OEM3); CD2))

512 MB Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM, 533 MHz

100 GB** Festplatte

17" UltraSharpT WUXGA TFT Display (1920x1200)

256 MB nVidia GeForceT Go 6800 Grafik

modulares 8x DVD+/-RW Laufwerk

4xUSB2.0, TV-Out, VGA, DVI, Firewire, SD-Card


Schon ab
1.899 €
Angebot gültig bis 22.02.2005

Assuming that price is in euros, that's about US$2444
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post #30 of 68
2/4/05 at 6:41pm
Looks like your gonna have Radeon 9700's as base options with upgrades for Geforce Go 6800's. Wouldn't you need some sort of bridge for the 6800 to 9700?
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post #31 of 68
2/4/05 at 6:53pm
Dell has been known to ship more than one mobo per laptop model. There's no guarantee you'll be able to upgrade from one video card to the other.
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post #32 of 68
2/4/05 at 7:48pm
ah! - but the problem still remains. Isn't Sonoma PCI express only?
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post #33 of 68
2/4/05 at 8:07pm
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Originally Posted by Atrus
you're kidding right?

Nope, there were some benchmarks that showed Doom III got a VERY VERY small increase in FPS by going from the same graphic card on a 4X to an 8X AGP Slot, Less than 1 FPS gain.
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post #34 of 68
2/4/05 at 8:08pm
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Originally Posted by eskimo_socks
ah! - but the problem still remains. Isn't Sonoma PCI express only?
Yeah that's what I've been pondering
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post #35 of 68
2/4/05 at 8:15pm
a little odd that the official Dell Ireland and Germany web sites are not lisitng the 9300 as a selection yet.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/de...=dhs&cs=iedhs1

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/de...=de&l=de&s=dhs

are the original links legit?
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post #36 of 68
2/4/05 at 8:53pm
Did I, a i9100 owner, hear "pci bridge"? I be monitoring this thread from now on =)
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post #37 of 68
2/4/05 at 10:25pm
I don't think a bridge is practical as agp is parallel and pci-e is serial.
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post #38 of 68
2/7/05 at 9:03am
Thread Starter 
So that's what I am looking for :


2.13 GHz P-M , 533MHz FSB, WUXGA T LCD
915 PM Express chipset
2 GB 533MHz DDR2 Dual channel RAM
100 GB 7200 RPM HDD
256MB ATI X800 0r Go6800 Graphics Card
16X DVD R/W
2915 Intel PRO dual band
90 W/hr batt

= DELL i 9300

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post #39 of 68
2/7/05 at 10:17am
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Originally Posted by ami111
So that's what I am looking for :

2.13 GHz P-M , 533MHz FSB, WUXGA T LCD
915 PM Express chipset
2 GB 533MHz DDR2 Dual channel RAM
100 GB 7200 RPM HDD
256MB ATI X800 0r Go6800 Graphics Card
16X DVD R/W
2915 Intel PRO dual band
90 W/hr batt

= DELL i 9300
Looks great!
What price? US $3000? $2200?
When do you think a bug free unit like that will appear in US homes? Another couple months?

You do know that Intel will soon be releasing Dual Core Dothan with 667MHz FSB, right? (google it)
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post #40 of 68
2/7/05 at 2:15pm
Thread Starter 
Dual core will hit the market not before early next year. Intel will start mass production of dual core CPU package in 3rd quarter of this year. Though it is planned to lunch the first chip in first quarter of this year.

Bottom line is that we will see notebook pcs fitted with dual core cup not earlier then Jan'2006.
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