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Alienware laptop With the works

post #1 of 6
10/31/03 at 12:18pm
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Does Anyone know if alienware is going to put the following on their laptop soon?

TV Encoder - earlier post on this site stated that this would be an option

Base Speaker - First seen on Tech TV as an add on after launch

AMD64 - Seen on Tom's Hardware and hinted at on this site



I would really like the laptop with the TV encoder and the AMD64

Does anyone know why they can not stick a creative labs Audigy 2 chip with the outputs on a laptop?
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post #2 of 6
10/31/03 at 12:22pm
Define "soon." I highly doubt any of those features will be implemented until first or second quarter of next year...
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post #3 of 6
10/31/03 at 12:28pm
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Soon

Soon = Next 4 months when I plan to buy
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post #4 of 6
10/31/03 at 2:46pm
I think there are definitely heat issues with using the AMD 64 chip in a lappy. The only PC maker offering the chip in a lappy is Voodoo and they can't offer more than 64 megs on the 9600 pro in the system because of heat issues. According to Voodoo the system runs hotter than their M:600 model and that model kind of runs hot.
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post #5 of 6
10/31/03 at 2:55pm

Re: Alienware laptop With the works

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Originally posted by cboudr1
Does Anyone know if alienware is going to put the following on their laptop soon?

TV Encoder - earlier post on this site stated that this would be an option

Base Speaker - First seen on Tech TV as an add on after launch

AMD64 - Seen on Tom's Hardware and hinted at on this site



I would really like the laptop with the TV encoder and the AMD64

Does anyone know why they can not stick a creative labs Audigy 2 chip with the outputs on a laptop?
Because laptops dont have PCI slots..

That, and creative wont sell the chips to makers for use on boards. Thankfully, there is much better hardware than the Audigy for laptops anyway, so why worry?
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post #6 of 6
11/2/03 at 11:44am
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Originally posted by Dragserb
I think there are definitely heat issues with using the AMD 64 chip in a lappy. The only PC maker offering the chip in a lappy is Voodoo and they can't offer more than 64 megs on the 9600 pro in the system because of heat issues. According to Voodoo the system runs hotter than their M:600 model and that model kind of runs hot.
Maybe I'm wrong but I was under the impression the amount of power the opteron pulls is lower than the Pentium 4 and that it disapates the heat better.

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The one saving grace AMD has is power. The power consumption for the K8 models is extremely low. Exactly how low is open to debate however, because the publicly available data sheets for the K8 chips are curiously incomplete. There are, however, quite complete data sheets if you are willing to sign an NDA. Unfortunately, we are not. Whatever the exact numbers are, as Aces Hardware shows, the actual consumption is well below that of a comparable Xeon. Why AMD wants to hide this is beyond us, we would be shouting an advantage like this from every rooftop we could climb to. Even empirical testing shows that a 244 running at full steam, with only an aluminum heatsink (OK, it had a copper slug), is cool to the touch.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9552

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Based on the very rough indications we've gathered, I am inclined to say that the power dissipation of the 1.8 GHz Opteron is between 50 and 60 Watts, and 50 Watts is probably closer than 60 Watts. This could make the Opteron very attractive in clusters, as the electricity bill for CPU power dissipation and for air conditioning can be a very important cost factor.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=55000268

If anyone has more exact figures I would be most intrested in reading them.
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