Laptop recommendations - anyone?

[Rav3n]

The R350 will be shipping as a desktop component march/april, and I believe I read somewhere that ATI has plans for a mobile part as well. Right now i am having a lot of problems with my desktop, and can't get it working for the life of me, so I am without a computer. I would like to buy a laptop, and i have searched for laptops using the Geforce4 4200, but could not find a single one. I could not care less about weight or battery life - I want pure performance, so I know I am looking at some machine that weighs around 12 pounds, has an hour of battery life... But I want something that I can play 3d games on, without problems. I want a wireless network card as well as a wired. Price is not much of an issue either - although $4,000 is a little pricey, but if I found something THAT much better then anything offered for less, then I might be inclined to get it. I know Sager has out that 8886 (is the last number a 6? I forget) and its pretty powerful, defintely an option... any suggestions?

 

[ErnieD]

You won't find a laptop with a GF4 4200, that is their desktop version. What you're looking for is a GeForce 4 Go, there is a 440 and 460 version, with 32 and 64mb of memory on them. That, or a Mobile Radeon 9000 or so.

Several vendors are now selling laptop models with integrated wireless networking, and almost all have wired integrated already. I know Dell, Toshiba, and Sony have integrated WiFi options. If you're ok with spending a lot of money, take a look at Alienware laptops . They're putting *desktop* Pentium 4's in their systems, so they're sure to be very powerful.

I'm also in the laptop market, and I've been mostly concentrating on Toshiba, Sony, and Dell. (I'm looking to spend approx. 2000, from someone that has financing available).

 

[bigshooter]

There is a mobile version of the 4200. It is basically a ti4200 in mobile packaging, so it sucks down battery life. I haven't seen anyone that has included it in their laptops yet, so I'm assuming it hasn't been officially released yet. If you want the fastest thing out you'll probably have to look at Sager or Alienware. These notebooks will be a lot more expensive than a dell or toshiba, but they are built for performance. Dell and other oems like that normally build for performance but try to keep battery life in mind.

 

[VBboy]

Alienware, WinBook

 

[Rav3n]

The Geforce4 4200 Go was what I was referring to - yeah, I was hoping someone had seen something on the web about it being included in a laptop anywhere at all, but that seems to not be the case. The 420, 440, and 460 are all much slower solutions than the radeon 9000, bah on nvidia for not putting better power features with the 4200 go...

Thanks for the suggestions, I will check them out - I was hoping though that some random small company that no one has heard of would be producing a kickass notebook.... meh