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Originally posted by: mocca
Originally posted by: Resh
Damn! Why did you have to tell me about that new hard-drive and laptop update in August? Why oh why?
I was soo ready to get a T40p, but now I want to hold off! $hit!
What to do? *stomps off, huffing*
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If you want the latest technology on a laptop, you will wait forever Trust me, I played that game before and I waited for a perfect laptop nearly 1 1/2 years. Fact is there is no perfect laptop. There is always something wrong with it, either the mfg know, can or cannot solve, or small or big problems. There is also always something better, newer, faster, on the corner. If you need a laptop now, just buy it now and then stick with it for three years. The HDD is easy to change so it should not be a problem. The gfx is another story but ATI M9 should be good enough for every games today and in the near future if you don't want to play at 1600x1200 with 4xFSAA.
Mocca
I feel that problem. I wanted to post a follow-up response on my current thinking for comment.
A new T40p with all the fixin's would cost anywhere between 3,100-3,300 depending on vendor and shipping. Given that I already have a desktop to play games on, albeit 2 years old and given that notebooks have 3d power at an enormous marginal premium price it makes more sense to do the following: take the 3,300 I would have spent on a T40p, and though it would have been money well spent break it into two purchases. First an ultraportable with the capacity to surf the web and type (my only non-gaming tasks), for a start a refurbished Latitude X200, depending on load out is 1,500-1,900. That leaves say...1,200 left. Bank that money till the fall and upgrade the desktop for the next-gen games (Half-Life2 et al.) then. Checking today a top drawer Canterwood loadout was 1,600 and components are only getting cheaper.
What do people think about this plan? And more importantly can anybody recommend an ultraportable. I know IBM x31, but that's expensive given the plan, and the Dell X200, but I don't know what the build quality is like though the price is good. Are there more Centrino ultra-portables besides the X31, or can anybody recommend an ultraportabel from the last generation that I could find cheap?
Thanks for the advice and I look forward to heaing people's comments.
Michael