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which mobile vc has multi-monitor capability?

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brinckerhoff

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As I look at Alienware's options for cards, for example, they have the ATI RAdeon 9700 128 which supposedly has "hydravision" (multi-monitor) capability, but ATI's site says that this functionality in the 9700 is "an OEM option" and the Alienware sales youngsters I checked with didn't know.

Alienware also offers the nVidia Quadro fx go1000 128 and the GeForece fx go5700, but their site offers conflicting info on the availability of their nView multi monitor functionality on these chips.

As an aside - should I wait for PCI-Xpress mobile solutions? I'm not really much of a gamer, but use photoshop and want to add a video editor (either Premiere or Vegas or Avid DVXpress) to my life.

I offer my thanks in advance to you knowledgeable souls!
 
Just about any laptop you get now will let you use the laptop's LCD panel and an external monitor at the same time. I know my eMachines M6805 does (Mobility Radeon 9600).
 
thanks - but is it a true 'dual head' second monitor? You use two different programs on each screen, or drag a timeline window across both screens? It wouldn't help if I had two screens with the same image.
 
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thanks. Now if I can just figure out the cost/benefit of an Extreme Edition cpu...
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Heh, don't bother the cost comes nowhere near justifying the slight performance increase you get.
 
got any further insights into cost/benefit at the notebook level?

are 7200 RPM drives really that necessary or will 5400s do just fine?

is there anything worth waiting for and postponing a purchase right now? PCI-Xpress? (I can't figure out what the hoopla is, which is why I'm confused)

can you point me to a comparison of the ATI Mob Radeon 9700 128 and the nVidia Quadro fx go1000 128?

really appreciate it. I've been paralyzed by all the options.
 
What are you going to use the system for? You mentioned Photoshop and video editing, but any gaming, etc? Also, why a laptop and not a desktop? You could have a faster desktop system for the same price or less.
 
our condo is small: where I would need to set up a desktop pc is a cramped little corner - having recently gotten free of that when I installed a wireless card in this dinky Pent M laptop, I just can't imagine going back to that cubby hole.

I'm also travelling quite a bit and photos are a part of that - needing to edit and burn CDs.

I uesd to edit video on Avid six years ago and want to return to doing some of that for my family, which also means travel... but I can probably use a simpler program.

by the way - I am correct in assuming that I'll be able to edit on a drive which is on a USB 2.0 port, right? To keep those files off my system drive?

and a 'little' project I have over this christmas is to (probably hire a high school kid to) scan in my grandmother's hundreds of world travel slides, and then somehow find a simple way to have her give audio annotations for future generations to enjoy. The PC will need to travel to her for that.

other than Quicken and the web - that's it.

I'm trying to figure out if 2 gigs of RAM is overkill and one will suffice, too.
 
Two gigs is overkill, and I'd recommend FireWire if you're going to be dumping huge files to the drive.
 
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