I got my Precision M70 on monday of this week and have been playing with it non-stop since then.
My first impression when I got this thing was WHOA! The lid of the screen has Precision written out and I gotta say that this is pretty tight. Cosmettically (sp?) the thing was beautiful. When the lid is closed, you can see the battery charging, power, and activity LEDs, and when opened, up at the top there is the main panel with sound controls and LEDs for wifi, bluetooth, and all the locks. The sound controls are a great help. The laptop I had before this had the FN ones and they sucked. The keyboard for me is awesome, very responsive and while it takes a little force to push a kye, once you strike it you know you have.
I got this thing with a 2.0Ghz P/M, 1Gb of 533Mhz RAM, the Quadro Vid Card, and all the other nuts and bolts. When I turned it on the first time I hit F2 to enter the BIOS. It's very nicely laid out and there's a menu on the left with everything that you could need. The computer booted very quickly and I was happy to see that there wasn't the normal crap on the laptop that seems to come standard with a new one. My friend got a 9300 at the same time (screen is frickin huge) and he had all sorts of crap on there. I went straight to trying to figure out how this thing did, so I installed BF 1942 which everyone knows is a memory hog, and the game ran beautifully with all graphics on high. Next test was MOH: Pacific Assault, a game that can be a little choppy on my desktop with a X800 Pro installed. Needless to say, it crushed this too. Graphics were awesome and it ran very smoothly. After that I took off the kiddie gloves and threw in Half Life 2, a game that is supposedly optimized for ATI hardware. At 1024x768 with all graphics on high but no AA or AF, the game ran fine but something didn't seem right so I punched the graphics back down to medium for most. I'm in ravenholm now and I am crapping my pants. Everything is awesome.
I believe this concludes my review. If anyone has any questions, post them on here or pm me. Thanks, and have a nice day.
Oh, and BTW, I GET TO FRICKIN GRADUATE TOMORROW. No more public school system.
My first impression when I got this thing was WHOA! The lid of the screen has Precision written out and I gotta say that this is pretty tight. Cosmettically (sp?) the thing was beautiful. When the lid is closed, you can see the battery charging, power, and activity LEDs, and when opened, up at the top there is the main panel with sound controls and LEDs for wifi, bluetooth, and all the locks. The sound controls are a great help. The laptop I had before this had the FN ones and they sucked. The keyboard for me is awesome, very responsive and while it takes a little force to push a kye, once you strike it you know you have.
I got this thing with a 2.0Ghz P/M, 1Gb of 533Mhz RAM, the Quadro Vid Card, and all the other nuts and bolts. When I turned it on the first time I hit F2 to enter the BIOS. It's very nicely laid out and there's a menu on the left with everything that you could need. The computer booted very quickly and I was happy to see that there wasn't the normal crap on the laptop that seems to come standard with a new one. My friend got a 9300 at the same time (screen is frickin huge) and he had all sorts of crap on there. I went straight to trying to figure out how this thing did, so I installed BF 1942 which everyone knows is a memory hog, and the game ran beautifully with all graphics on high. Next test was MOH: Pacific Assault, a game that can be a little choppy on my desktop with a X800 Pro installed. Needless to say, it crushed this too. Graphics were awesome and it ran very smoothly. After that I took off the kiddie gloves and threw in Half Life 2, a game that is supposedly optimized for ATI hardware. At 1024x768 with all graphics on high but no AA or AF, the game ran fine but something didn't seem right so I punched the graphics back down to medium for most. I'm in ravenholm now and I am crapping my pants. Everything is awesome.
I believe this concludes my review. If anyone has any questions, post them on here or pm me. Thanks, and have a nice day.
Oh, and BTW, I GET TO FRICKIN GRADUATE TOMORROW. No more public school system.
congrat's on school and your M70
