Does replacement for I8600 exist?

Well i got the laptop in my sig for just over 900 a while ago .....a friend of mine has the I8600 and a 700m...but with my x300 overclocked a little i get the same 3dmark as he does...so they are basically the same....except the x300 is underclocked.
If you get a top of the line 2ghz, 2 gigs ram, x300 128meg, dvdrw, 80 gig hdd...i think it would be worth it....but if you really want performance.....get the 9300 from dell....with a 6800go.......nice lappy..
other than that you may have to go do a diff manufacturer for what you seek.

I believe the i6000 is a bit heavier than the i8600. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my sister has one, and without correct measurements that's what it feels like to me.

Also, the i6000 is an ideal multimedia machine, and it was marketed a bit differently than the i8600. My sister has a TV tuner and recorder for the laptop - which I think is a huge plus, especially as a college student she may not even need to bring a TV with her to school. In terms of appearance, I'm not to partical to the look of the new Dell's personally. The INSPIRON on the exterior of my father's 9200 is rubbing off and he hasn't even had it for 6 mths. They are built nicely, but I wouldn't say it's better than the i8600. Also the videocard on the i8600 is superior to that of the i6000, which I've heard does play games decently, isn't near the performance of a dedicated 128mb videocard.

I will say something about the screens. I have the i9100 and the same screens are comparable with the i8600. I LOVE my screen. The i6000 has a decent one too, but being picky, I pick the i9100 over the i6000's screen quality.

In terms of battery life, I'd say you won't be able to beat that 6 hours! I doubt the i6000 would fare better. But I haven't used my sister's yet, so I can't say for sure. Should be interesting to hear from other i6000 owners.

Bottom line: the i8600 and i6000 are very similar machines and in my opinion, not worth the switch when you are just replacing a centiro 15.4 widescreen laptop for another centrino 15.4 widescreen laptop. There are some differences with the i6000, but not enough to switch unless you really feel THAT compelled or can blow the cash.

Keep your lappy. 8600 is roughly one the best machines around.

I just purchased annother M60 and it has GeForce FX 5650 with 128 MB also. It is better on OpenGL but way slower on pixel and vertex shader 2.0. Not all cards born equal.

I agree. I wish I had gotten one instead of my i9100.

I like how your signature says you have 512 GBs of Ram in your 700m
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Agree with astro...8600 remains one of best laptops around imo. Impt feature (often overlooked) is Advanced Port Replicator option which none of the new inspirons have. Have to go to Latitude or Precision series laptop for APRs these days. Of course you can fiddle with the USB docking stations, but I could never get them to work right on my older 5150.

My 1.8Ghz CPU and 128MB GPU handles every chore, including decent games, I throw at it. Quiet, not too heavy, long battery life, and 15.4 screen is a solid combo.

Unless Dell builds an 8700 with APR, go1400/6800, and DDr2, I'm keeping my 8600.

The 9100 could have been the best machine if they just had offered something interesting for such size.

Being twice the heght of a regular laptop, I bet that there is space enough to fit FOUR media bays. That could had allowed people to put TWO aditional hard drives, a floppy and a media bay battery, for insane functionality.

The problem is that it has a Pentium 4 desktop processor, which is, while powerful, becoming obsolete and non-practical in laptops. At the time I bought it, it was the best that Dell had to offer. Soon after, Dell took nearly all their P4's off their line (do they even sell them anymore?) Anyways now I use it as a desktop now, it's awful to carry around. but I definately couldn't replace it with my 700m. For games, hard drive capacity, screen resolution, it's more practical for me. I hook up all my devices to it, but as someone who is constantly on her computer for internet, school, travel etc, I needed this thing.

Seems to be like you WANT us to suggest getting rid of your i8600, so you don't like what we're saying. I still say keep the i8600, but if you absolutely are set on selling it, then don't get the thinkpad, it's too expensive, just go with your i6000 idea....

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My 8600 is a year old and it still rocks. It has handled everything I've thrown at with out any problems. Probably in another year or so something a lot better will come out. The performance of the current laptops don't seems to be to much better especially when you factor in the cost factor of upgrading. Just my opinion.

That's what we're all saying but seems like he doesn't want to listen to us!

in case it hasn't been said enough dont get rid of your 8600 i made that mistake and i still cry at night

I love now this is turn into a pro-i8600 thread. Save the i8600!

Don't understand your 8600 heat problem...I have the same 8600 except with a 7200rpm drive. Farcry is the only thing that brings the high fan speed on line. Otherwise my rig is generally quiet, even during video splicing and hi-res graphics work.

D810 and M70, imo, are only things better in the 15.4 size, at substantially higher cost. My daughter has a 755 chip in her 8600 and the fans do seem generally more active with that chip.

Your right. In the same size, you can't get something from Dell thats much better (unless you go to the Precision series like the M70). The 9600 Pro Turbo is still a great gfx card, and I doubt the x300 would be much of an upgrade.

And you seem to want us to come up with a reason to get rid of your 8600. I am selling mine for the reason that I don't play games that often, and want something smaller for taking to school and between my parent's houses.