IMO u can buy a decent allaround notebook today, so its not really necessary to wait for Yonah and MXM. Yonah will come thats for sure, but all those MXM stuff, iam not sure how fast it will become common that all laptops have these kind of modularity. My guess is that until 2007 we will have to buy barebooks with the graphics card soldered on the board, but at least one can choose between integrated graphics and stuff like X700 or 6600go. Those cards provide some gaming power (25-35fps in doom and farcry at 1024x1280), that u can use ur laptop for both work and some gaming. I would compare those graphics cards to the desktop 9800pro version. At least from the benchmarks x700 seems not much slower than 98pro.
At the moment quarter 3 is starting and this means some new shi t is coming to light, and this is AMD Turion notebooks. Worth to take a look, cuz although they are brandnew they enter the market with nice low pricing.
For the future i hope that more manufacturers like MSI, Aopen, ECS will be offering barebooks like the MSI Megabook 635. These come with graphics card and everything, missing are the componentes that notebooks allways suffer from. I like the idea of equipping a M635 (comes with x700, wlan, dvd, bluetooth, modem, akku, psu cable and all the stuff) with an MT34 Turion, 100GB hdd 7200rpm (seagate and hitachi will start selling them as i hope within July/Auguste) and two sticks of 1024mb Ram.
Pricing: 700,- for the barebook
200,- for 20024mb Ram
250,- for the Turion Cpu.
The problem still is that the parts are coming out just these days (2 b more exactly the MSI635 will be available in Europe in two weeks, dont know exactly when u can buy Turion, i emailed a reseller), so u wont be able to buy all the stuff right now, but i guess within 2 months this rig is available.
This was just an example whats goin on besides pre-built notebooks. Its an early example since AMD is just starting to offer Turions, MSI is starting with their Turion platforms and Hitachi should hurry to come up with their new (as fast as the desktop equivalents) hdd`s. But after all, it maybe shows u where the journey goes to.
PS: dual core...i know peeps at the cpu forum are freakin out on these duallies and i like them too, but...they are at the moment not really necessary for a notebook (neither regarding pricing nor preformance)......my 2 cents
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At the moment quarter 3 is starting and this means some new shi t is coming to light, and this is AMD Turion notebooks. Worth to take a look, cuz although they are brandnew they enter the market with nice low pricing.
For the future i hope that more manufacturers like MSI, Aopen, ECS will be offering barebooks like the MSI Megabook 635. These come with graphics card and everything, missing are the componentes that notebooks allways suffer from. I like the idea of equipping a M635 (comes with x700, wlan, dvd, bluetooth, modem, akku, psu cable and all the stuff) with an MT34 Turion, 100GB hdd 7200rpm (seagate and hitachi will start selling them as i hope within July/Auguste) and two sticks of 1024mb Ram.
Pricing: 700,- for the barebook
200,- for 20024mb Ram
250,- for the Turion Cpu.
The problem still is that the parts are coming out just these days (2 b more exactly the MSI635 will be available in Europe in two weeks, dont know exactly when u can buy Turion, i emailed a reseller), so u wont be able to buy all the stuff right now, but i guess within 2 months this rig is available.
This was just an example whats goin on besides pre-built notebooks. Its an early example since AMD is just starting to offer Turions, MSI is starting with their Turion platforms and Hitachi should hurry to come up with their new (as fast as the desktop equivalents) hdd`s. But after all, it maybe shows u where the journey goes to.
PS: dual core...i know peeps at the cpu forum are freakin out on these duallies and i like them too, but...they are at the moment not really necessary for a notebook (neither regarding pricing nor preformance)......my 2 cents
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