Centrino laptops are out!!!

[JackBurton]

IBM, Dell and Sony have them listed to be ordered! Sony looks the best by far though.

 

[manko]

Centrino

 

[Dacalo]

that is impressive... that would make it perfect when i decide to get a laptop later this year

 

[BlakkIce]

is dell releasing a centrino right now the 8500 looks better than the 17in powerbook

 

[manko]

I think you can order now, but I've heard wait time is about a month for Dell's Centrinos. The best Dell Centrino alternative to the 8500 is the Latitude D800 with Geforce 4 4200 Go and 15.4" wide screen (up to 1920x1200 with the WUXGA+ option). Other Dell's are the Inspiron 600m and the Latitude D600.

Personally, I'm going to try to hold out a couple months for new models featuring the new graphics chips, ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 (and Pro) and Nvidia's GeForce FX Go5200 and Go5600 mentioned in this article: The Future of Mobile Gaming: New Chips from ATI and NVIDIA .

 

[NeoMadHatter]

Originally posted by: manko
I think you can order now, but I've heard wait time is about a month for Dell's Centrinos. The best Dell Centrino alternative to the 8500 is the Latitude D800 with Geforce 4 4200 Go and 15.4" wide screen (up to 1920x1200 with the WUXGA+ option). Other Dell's are the Inspiron 600m and the Latitude D600.

Personally, I'm going to try to hold out a couple months for new models featuring the new graphics chips, ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 (and Pro) and Nvidia's GeForce FX Go5200 and Go5600 mentioned in this article: The Future of Mobile Gaming: New Chips from ATI and NVIDIA .

yea, and only the d800 has firewire. if either the d600 or 600m did i'd probably get one of those. but i'm gonna have to wait and see if they add it.

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: manko
I think you can order now, but I've heard wait time is about a month for Dell's Centrinos. The best Dell Centrino alternative to the 8500 is the Latitude D800 with Geforce 4 4200 Go and 15.4" wide screen (up to 1920x1200 with the WUXGA+ option). Other Dell's are the Inspiron 600m and the Latitude D600.

Personally, I'm going to try to hold out a couple months for new models featuring the new graphics chips, ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 (and Pro) and Nvidia's GeForce FX Go5200 and Go5600 mentioned in this article: The Future of Mobile Gaming: New Chips from ATI and NVIDIA .

I can tell you it's going to be more than a couple months wait, especially for the FX chips.

 

[Ryan]

What are you talking about - Gateway has had theirs for sale since yesterday

 

[Mani]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
What are you talking about - Gateway has had theirs for sale since yesterday

I was referring to the FX mobile chips and the Radeon 9600s.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: Mani

Originally posted by: rbloedow What are you talking about - Gateway has had theirs for sale since yesterday

I was referring to the FX mobile chips and the Radeon 9600s.

Well, I was referring to JackBurtons post

 

[manko]

Originally posted by: Mani

I can tell you it's going to be more than a couple months wait, especially for the FX chips.

I know these things are always late, but I have read in different articles a date of late May for the first new ATI mobile chips (9600) and I also read that Toshiba will have a model with one of the new Nvidia chips as early as April.

 

[Ilmater]

Originally posted by: rbloedow
What are you talking about - Gateway has had theirs for sale since yesterday

Yeah, but then you'd have a Gateway POS.

ZING!

BTW, I don't want to start a flame war, it's just that I've only known three people that owned Gateways and they all hated them.