My current desktop is a Dell 4600, 2.6 GHz, 800 FSB w/ HT, GPU is a Nvidia 5200MX w/ 128 mb RAM (i *think*.. it might be 64mb).
I'd like a laptop to replace it, and have looked at many of the suggested models, and have mulled them over for the past few weeks. Although I'd love to have the advanced hardward in the XPS2 by Dell, screen quality is important to me; do they really sparkly bad? I looked at the Sager 9860, but it's just too ugly, as is their 7xxx model (forgot the exact number).
I love the way the Acer Ferrari looks, but is an ATI 9700 128 RAM going to be sufficient to do moderate gaming. I recently really got into Everquest II, and on my machine, many areas are OK, but the cities really clunk along. Thankfully, no crashing though.
The Asus 71V is OK re: looks, not the greatest. Also, I question if the Nvidia 6600go is good enough? I love the Asus V6V, but this uses the ATI x600... how does this fair to the 9700 or the 6600?
Cost is no object, up to $3000. 15" is probably preferable to 17", but I'm fine with 17". Centrino probably preferred, because most of the notebooks look better and are thinner. The P4 and AMD 64s are mostly clunky, the Ferrari being an exception. Obviously, looks are imporant, as is the screen. Some type of warranty is also... this is one reason I'm ruling out ibuypower.com; they won't warranty over 1 year (hate that).
Finally, I can probably wait a bit, if something is coming around the corner, but I don't want to wait more than 6-8 weeks. Is there a new Ferrari coming out soon that I should wait for? or, an upcoming offering from Asus that will offer better GPUs? I see that only a few of the notebooks offer the 915 chip by Intel, I'm thinking that this chipset is an important improvement?
thanks for your thoughts.
I'd like a laptop to replace it, and have looked at many of the suggested models, and have mulled them over for the past few weeks. Although I'd love to have the advanced hardward in the XPS2 by Dell, screen quality is important to me; do they really sparkly bad? I looked at the Sager 9860, but it's just too ugly, as is their 7xxx model (forgot the exact number).
I love the way the Acer Ferrari looks, but is an ATI 9700 128 RAM going to be sufficient to do moderate gaming. I recently really got into Everquest II, and on my machine, many areas are OK, but the cities really clunk along. Thankfully, no crashing though.
The Asus 71V is OK re: looks, not the greatest. Also, I question if the Nvidia 6600go is good enough? I love the Asus V6V, but this uses the ATI x600... how does this fair to the 9700 or the 6600?
Cost is no object, up to $3000. 15" is probably preferable to 17", but I'm fine with 17". Centrino probably preferred, because most of the notebooks look better and are thinner. The P4 and AMD 64s are mostly clunky, the Ferrari being an exception. Obviously, looks are imporant, as is the screen. Some type of warranty is also... this is one reason I'm ruling out ibuypower.com; they won't warranty over 1 year (hate that).
Finally, I can probably wait a bit, if something is coming around the corner, but I don't want to wait more than 6-8 weeks. Is there a new Ferrari coming out soon that I should wait for? or, an upcoming offering from Asus that will offer better GPUs? I see that only a few of the notebooks offer the 915 chip by Intel, I'm thinking that this chipset is an important improvement?
thanks for your thoughts.
