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First Athlon 64-M laptop to be ready soon... Voodoo PC envy M:855

alexruiz

alexruiz

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Well, the wait is almost over. Voodoo PC announced that is already taking order of the Envy M:855 laptop, and they can be shipped as soon as October 31st, 2003!

Specs?

K8T800 chipset, Athlon 64-M, mobility radeon 9600 and travelstar 7K60. 😛

I will inquiry the full specs and the price.... so maybe my new toy is closer than expected

Alex
 
I am surprised that this hasn't caused a lot of replies..... Tons of post regarding lappies with Mobility radeon 9600 and asking about them... here is a machine with the coveted m10 and no interest.... Tons of posts regarding the new sagers using desktop P4 3.2C at a not very light 6 kg... this one is at 3.6 kg (a little over 8 pounds) and no comments.... Well, people don't seem to be very excited about what should be the most powerful gaming laptop 🙁
 
Well, this isn't just an M10. This is an M10 Pro, no small deal either, as M10 Pro probably should have been called M10 XT (which there is no such thing). M10 Pro has OverDrive in it. The first sactioned overclocking for laptops, for anything as far as I recall, at least for commercially available notebooks. 🙂

AnandTech's M10 and M10 Pro coverage
 
Andrew, do you think that anandtech can get one of these babies and benchmark it? It is a little over my budget, but not discarded yet...
 
actually I'd be very interested in a review. My boss bought me my Dell Latitude C840 which at the time was loaded and the best you could get and was over $3000. He's getting ready to buy new machines for the rest of the peeps here so I may see if I can get this Athlon 64 one instead... If I can convince him I'll be more productive he'd buy it in a second...
 
Originally posted by: alexruiz
Andrew, do you think that anandtech can get one of these babies and benchmark it? It is a little over my budget, but not discarded yet...
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Considered your request noted. We'll get on it. 🙂
 
voodoo is getting that laptop from somebody else... who'll be probably making them for other people too. right now, there aren't any real pics of it on the voodoo site...
 
I was kind of surprised that they put a 64 meg 9600 pro in this notebook, but since the resolution of the screen is SXGA it should be OK. The notebook is supposed to be their top of the line though. Kinda weird., thought they would go all out for the 128.

but I bet the 64meg card kicks enough ass, if they wer offering it in the M:355 I would buy one right away.
 
Originally posted by: eastvillager
voodoo is getting that laptop from somebody else... who'll be probably making them for other people too. right now, there aren't any real pics of it on the voodoo site...
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The design is based in the MITAC 355. I agree, some other places should also start having machines like this, but so far only VoodooPC has launched its machine.


 
Originally posted by: Andrew Ku
Originally posted by: alexruiz
Andrew, do you think that anandtech can get one of these babies and benchmark it? It is a little over my budget, but not discarded yet...
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Considered your request noted. We'll get on it. 🙂
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Thanks. In case you get it, what would be the competition? Would you throw also a few desktops as baseline?
 
Personally, I haven't been notified of any other notebook using an Athlon64. If we do review it, we would likely have to compare it to desktop systems because of its use of desktop components: chipset and processor specifically.
 
What do you think the Sager/Clevo/Alienware/VooDoo/Hypersonic and most desknotes use?


The answer is desktop CPUs and chipsets... looks like the list above could be a good start for that review.
 
Originally posted by: Andrew Ku
Personally, I haven't been notified of any other notebook using an Athlon64. If we do review it, we would likely have to compare it to desktop systems because of its use of desktop components: chipset and processor specifically.
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As competition I meant other power laptops using either the Athlon XP-M (Uniwill N251C2, KT333, mobility radeon 9000) or DTR using P4 or P-M (a lot of them) We would like to know what is the baddest DTR laptop of them all.... 😛

Alex

PS. Some desktops as baseline wouldn't hurt either...


 
Andrew, my proposed machines for this review:

- Voodoo Pc envy m:855 (Athlon 64-M 3200+)
- Acer Ferrari laptop (AXP-M 2500+, platform unknown)
- Uniwill N261C2 (KT333, AXP-M 2500+, mobility radeon 9000)
- Sager (clevo?) N8890 (P4 3.2C, mobility radeon 9600)
- HP zd7000 (P4 3.2, GeForce FX Go 5650)
- HP zt3000 (Pentium-m, mobility radeon 9200)
- Dell inspiron 8600 (pentium-M, mobility radeon 9600)
- Dell inspiron 8500 (P4, GeForce FX Go)

Suggestions and corrections are welcome for any machine that I missed, or in case I wrote a specification wrong. Ideally, 2 machines of each would be tested, one with standard configuration (4200 rpm hard drives or 32 Mb video cards) and the other with top of the line components (7K60, highest videocard available, 1 GB DDr, etc)

In addition, maybe a desktop as sparring.

Alex

Edit: Editor comments would be very valuable about little details (weight, battery life, ports location, etc)
 
Hi Andrew,

It is likely that the M:855 will irk ahead of the Pentium-M 1.7GHz with the new PowerNow drivers
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We were very surprised to see the Voodoo Envy M:855?s Athlon 64 DTR 3200+ irk slightly ahead of the Athlon 64 3200+,
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According to Merriam-webster, irk = "to make weary, irritated, or bored". Did you mean to say these CPUs are annoying each other? Or would it be more correct to say "x processor scored slightly higher than y processor"?

Also I don't think it's necessary to have 6 different 300-pixel tall graphs when they display only 2 bars each. Maybe future benchmarks can consolidate the graphs from 3-4 different pages into just 1 or 2 graphs on a single page?
 
Originally posted by: alexruiz
Andrew, my proposed machines for this review:

- Voodoo Pc envy m:855 (Athlon 64-M 3200+)
- Acer Ferrari laptop (AXP-M 2500+, platform unknown)
- Uniwill N261C2 (KT333, AXP-M 2500+, mobility radeon 9000)
- Sager (clevo?) N8890 (P4 3.2C, mobility radeon 9600)
- HP zd7000 (P4 3.2, GeForce FX Go 5650)
- HP zt3000 (Pentium-m, mobility radeon 9200)
- Dell inspiron 8600 (pentium-M, mobility radeon 9600)
- Dell inspiron 8500 (P4, GeForce FX Go)

Suggestions and corrections are welcome for any machine that I missed, or in case I wrote a specification wrong. Ideally, 2 machines of each would be tested, one with standard configuration (4200 rpm hard drives or 32 Mb video cards) and the other with top of the line components (7K60, highest videocard available, 1 GB DDr, etc)

In addition, maybe a desktop as sparring.

Alex

Edit: Editor comments would be very valuable about little details (weight, battery life, ports location, etc)
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I wasn't aware that unless you were ordering from Dell France that the 8600 was coming with a Radeon 9600 at the moment?
 
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