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Wondering when we will get a decent laptop chipset for mobile Athlons

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imported_Woody

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It would be really nice to have laptops running high end Athlon64s with PCIe mobile graphics cards. I'd like to get a nice portable with a high end video card I can use for gaming but it seems the only choice right now is Pentium4 systems and the Dell Pentium-M systems.

I've heard ATi is working on a laptop version of it's chipset for Athlons but there is very little news. Not that I have anything personal against the P4 but it seems a little much for laptops and lacks the gaming performance of a good A64. I really don't want the Dell. Anyone heard any news on this?
 
You forgot the Voodoo Envy u:709, although it is not Turion based.

I also don't think I've seen a Turion laptop with >X700. It could easily be done though: buy an A64 laptop and trade the CPU out for an MT-40 😀

And OP: ATI has had a mobile AMD chipset out for a long time now. Its up to OEM's & ODM's to use it in combination with a high end GPU.

The problem is, and most likely the reason you won't see many IF ANY Turion DTR's w/high end GPU's, that AMD wants Turion seen as a thin and light mobile solution. If you start seeing Turion in huge honkin laptops that get 30 minutes of battery life due to monster screens and high power GPU's, AMD starts losing the image war. Intel has the image of the best mobile platform out there, Centrino; AMD, thanks to their massive lack of advertising, is fighting an uphill battle and will not willingly make that battle harder.
 
Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
You forgot the Voodoo Envy u:709, although it is not Turion based.
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This is what I'm talking about! Didn't see that one. Not a Turion lightweight computer with a relatively slower graphics card but a big, powerful S939 Athlon64 based Clevo system with the X800XT or 6800Go Ultra! Unfortunately, Voodoos cost twice as much as a similarly equipped Pentium4 6xx Clevo laptop from Sager or Alienware.

What I would really like to see is a Sager 7620 sized notebook with a high resolution 15.4 inch screen but I think with that kind of power you need those huge Clevo behomoths to provide power and keep it all cool. I just don't want to lug a 17" notebook around with me all day.
 
You can't have ur cake and eat it 2. You have to make choices in the lappy world and havin a Turon chip with a x800xt aint a choice u got.


Will G.
 
I don't care if it's Turon. I want Athlon64 high end with a high end video card. There just aren't that many options available in this area.

If Sager and others can pack a Pentium4 6xx and an X800 or 6800Go into a 15.4 inch laptop for under $2000 I think it could be done with an Athlon64 system. I'd even prefer the Pentium-M in a package like that but no one seems to make anything like that. The Pentium-M can do as well or better at gaming than the larger and hotter P4 chips so why do so called desktop replacement gaming laptops always go for the Pentium 4? Dell is the only one to use the Pentium-M and have proved it is superior.
 
The problem is that with a 15.4" you really don't have enough room for adequate cooling on such a power hungry system. You MIGHT be able to use a Pentium M (LV maybe?) with an X800/6800, but not the higher clocked GPU variants like Go 6800 Ultra in 15.4". That and there is the point I mentioned earlier: companies sell portable-sized laptops that are actually portable. Throw in a power hungry GPU and/or loud cooling system and not only will your battery numbers suffer, but the weight is increased and so is noise. People buying portable systems don't want that and people selling portable systems don't want.

I personally would love a 14" WSXGA+ (1480x1050? or something like that) with an X700/6600. I could even live with 14" WXGA & X700/6600, but it just ain't to be found yet 😉 At least I don't think 😕
 
That is a great price for that notebook. Should be nice to use.

Maybe when NVidia gets their cooler 7800 into a mobile part we will see them in 15.4" portables.

I was really close to buying the Sager 15.4" with an X800 but I just don't want that P4.
 
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