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New Laptop to Drool Over - Core i7 920QM, 18" screen


this is what i call a DESKTOP REPLACEMENT !

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16834114705

OK, so the battery life probably sucks. and the SSD is kind of small for a boot drive, i'd rather have a laptop with 2 500 GB drives.

"TOSHIBA Qosmio X505-Q850 NoteBook Intel Core i7 720QM 18.4" 6GB Memory DDR3 1066 320GB HDD + 64GB SSD HDD BD Combo NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M - Retail"

"Equipped with 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M dedicated graphics"

just found myself a new Ultimate Laptop.
 
The GPU on that rig is pretty terrible. Hell, all mobile GPUs have gone to hell these days. They're like half-assed versions of desktop GPUs a couple tiers down.
 
Find something with a GTX 260M. It's significantly more powerful.

To me, that's the minimum I'd be looking for in a gaming laptop.
 
The 5770 will probably transfer well to notebook early next year. If ATi cares about that segment at all, they will make a great chip out of it. As it could be more than twice as fast as anything out now I would wait.
 
Originally posted by: wwswimming
"Equipped with 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M dedicated graphics"

just found myself a new Ultimate Laptop.

That thing will be beat as soon as another company comes out with the same thing but with better graphics, which will happen really soon. I'm talking both in general terms of progress, and in more specific terms that I can't discuss at this time.

If you want to see what kind of graphics power is available in a notebook, check out this baby.

BTW here's how the notebook GPUs stack up:

The GPU in the Qosmio is the GeForce GTS 250M.
It appears to use GDDR5 on a 128-bit bus, support DX10.1 and have 96 stream proc^H^H^H^H^H ahem, CUDA cores. For those who don't know about unannounced products 😉 on the surface this would look like a 9600 GSO-ish product based on the number of CUDA cores.

The Deimos can be outfitted with one or two (in SLI) GeForce GTX 260M or 280M.
The GTX 260M has 112 CUDA cores while the GTX 280M has 128 CUDA cores. Both use GDDR3 on a 256-bit bus. Think of them as a 9800 GT or 9800 GTX+, single or SLI.

As you can see, there will be a difference in gaming capabilities even before running them in SLI.
 
Originally posted by: Zap

If you want to see what kind of graphics power is available in a notebook, check out this baby.

Mother of God... the "Elite" is $4499.

No doubt that's a pretty sweet setup, but I'd at least want a 160GB X-25M included for that price... damn. The base configuration isn't quite so bad considering the SLI cards and slots for three HDDs (two 250GB, 5400 RPM included).

I'm not in the market for a desktop replacement anyway so who am I to judge. 😛
 
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