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Ruptured, Im not very good at look up things it seems. I tried Rivatuner. It says 100 core clock and 220 memory clock. Somehow I dont think that is right. Dont know how to check it.
John, I will try optical cable tomorrow to my home cinema with realtek. If all goes well I will post tomorrow.

Ruptured: After som tinkering I found it: 325/600. Is that any good?

Well, as far as I understand, if the core speed is 325, that is pretty good, considering the GPU in fujitsu has DDR1 memory. The memory speed is actually 300 Mhz (I think) which is just a normal default clock there.

BTW, really, have you had any time to witness any gaming performance on your machine yet? I'm a bit interested in that as well as John.

Houston, we have a problem! I contacted Fujitsu-Siemens to ask when's the Amilo M4438g going to be released in Finland. They answered that it's very likely that M4438g will not be released in Finland at all and that I should have to settle for M3438g. This is a huge problem for me as I need to buy a notebook by September.

Since Sweden is my neighbour country I have thought about buying a notebook from there. Belch bought one there so why shouldn't I, right? Well the only problem there is the OS language. I have understood that you don't get to select the language when you buy a notebook, you have to go with the language that is the language in the country you bought it from. So if I bought M4438g in Sweden, I would only get swedish Windows XP. Is this right, Belch, or did you get to choose the language when you first switched your notebook on.

Another thing. Belch, you posted a link earlier to a swedish online shop from where you can buy the M4438g. I noticed that they only sell a model that has PM-750 cpu and only 512MB of RAM. I need eithey PM-760 (2GHz) or PM-770 (2,13GHz) and 1 GB of RAM. Belch, do you know a shop in Sweden from where you can buy these kinds of models? Obviously you do since I noticed you bought a model with PM-760 cpu and 1 GB or RAM.

So if Belch (or anyone) could answer these questions for me, I'd really appreciate it. I'd hate to settle for the M3438g, especially since the M4438g is really a bargain.

I have played for instance Medal of Honour Pacific assault with 1920*1200. The game look absolutely goodlike. No ghost, no freeze. Battlefield 2 with this resolution gives some low fps the first minutes on a new map, then works great. And the looks...wow. But I perfer a little lower resolution for more fps when playing multiplayer.

Also in Sweden its hard to find the M4438G. The 3438 sells in several store. (You can search here www.pricerunner.se). Ram can easily be upgraded. Dont know about the CPU. The notebook is shipped with Swedish OS from Sweden. I dont know if the supplied cd-key can be used for another language.

How many pins does the RAM have (so I know which RAM to purchase)?

Oh this sucks. I contacted F-S again and they told me that the OS has only one language, so I'd have to buy Windows in Finnish separately if I bought the M4438g in Sweden. Anyway I did a little searching around the net and it seems that M4438 (as well as M3438) are very hard to find. Maybe there's some hope still but F-S told me that they believe that it's not worth it to sell M4438 in Finland because people wouldn't be buying them so much.

Well I think I'll wait to August or September and then buy the best notebook that is available in Finland. If the M4438 is not released here then I guess I have to buy M3438 with PM750. But can I survive with WXGA+ when I could have WUXGA... Although as Belch told us, WXGA+ might not be such a bad thing because I doubt even the M4438g can run all the newest games in 1920x1200 without low FPS. And we all know that playing outside native resolution weakens the image quality. So wouldn't logic say that playing with M3438 in 1440x900 (native resolution) would offer better image quality than playing with M4438 in a non-native resolution (below 1920x1200). However, when considering the fact that HDTV is coming and when I watch dvds, I bet WUXGA would be better than WXGA+.

The only other choice for me in DTR-notebooks is Dell Inspiron 9300 here in Finland. Still, I won't be buying that since it's expensive and I've read many negative reviews on it (bad display, keyboard).

After endless years of waiting and suffering, I now finally decided to damn the torpedoes and bite the bullet. I just ordered myself the d*mn M3438G with 2 hard drives... Hopefully it wasn't a mistake...

The M3438G is nice, I've seen it myself. Only in a shop though, so I didn't get too much chance to examine it.

I think the M3438G is a great notebook. I got the M4438G and is of course happy. The WUXGA is better in every way than the WXGA. With a huge pricegap between them, the 3438G is much more for the money. Dont underestimate the WXGA. Its much, much better then Dells (WXGA and WUXGA) anyway in my oppinion.

Belch, if you could answer this question I'd appreciate it immensely. You mentioned that your Windows XP in your M4438G (that was bought in Sweden) was in swedish. How about the programs? Are the dvd-playback program, Photoshop and other programs that came with your laptop in Swedish too, or are they in English for example.

Sure I think that M4438G is probably better than M3438G. But wouldn't you say that M3438G might be better in games since you can play games in its native resolion of 1440x900 while the newest might not run well in M4438Gs native resolution of 1920x1200, and that means that if you have to run games with M4438G in a non-native resolution the image suffers. That being said, I'm sure WUXGA is way better in dvds and for example editing digital pictures.

Anyway, I'll wait for 2 months and then decide what notebook to get. If the M4438G is not released in Finland by then then I will have to decide whether to buy the M4438G from Sweden or Germany and buy a Finnish WinXP (Pro) from here, or whether to just get the M3438G from here and try to live without WUXGA. The deciding factor is whether the program package (dvdplayback, Photoshop et cetera) in Swedish M4438G is in Swedish or in English. Belch, help me out!

I would have liked the WUXGA in my laptop no doubt as well, but the "run games in the native resolution" argument was the one that I used to convince myself into buying the M3438G.
After all the WUXGA resolution gives the GPU a lot more filling to do, and I think it would have been the best choice if the Go 6800 were an Ultra version.
Which it sadly isn't, of course

I guess it would be a good idea to ask Belch how well the screen handles scaling the resolution down, so, how is it Belch? How low res have you tried out?

Indeed, we are all interested. Belch, don't forget to answer my 'what language versions were the included programs: Photoshop, dvdplaybackprogram' question.

And mine as well if you can : )

How many pins does the RAM have (so I know which RAM to purchase)?

John, if your thinking about getting the WUXGA screen to be ready with the HDTV, remember that you would most likely need to restrain with the HDTV material available on the internet for viewing coz the HDTV "dvds" will be in either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD format (though I'm not an expert in HDTV).