New laptop?

[Balaso]

Money finally came through and hits my account monday next week. Here are the specs I settled on:

17" TFT WUXGA (1920x1200) Glare Type Display
2.0 Intel Pentium M (760) Processor (2 MB Cache, Sonoma)
256MB GDDR3 nVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX PCI-Express 16x
2048 MB DDR2 SDRAM (533 MHz, PC-4200, Dual Channel) (2 x 1 GB)
80 GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
Internal 8X DVD±R/RW LightScribe (Dual Layer) + / CD-RW Combo Drive
Integrated V.90/56K Modem (V.92 compliant)
10/100/1000BASE-TX Fast Ethernet on boardLAN Card
Internal Intel 2915ABG 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN
Add Internal Bluetooth Card
Add 2nd 8-cell Smart Lithium Ion Battery
4-in-1 Flash Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MSPro)
Integrated 1.3M Digital Video Camera
Ac Adapter w/ power cord included
Add Direct Auto Adapter
Targus Sport Deluxe Backpack - Platinum/Black (fits 17" Screens)
Microsoft Windows XP-Professional Installed, recovery CD included

[SK_CROW]

Nice!  Make sure you post your Mark05 results here!!!  

[E.J.FUDD]

coolness.....dell?

[Balaso]

nope, it's a sager. It's made by the same company who makes several of alienware and Dells models.

[MuffDiver]

sounds like a lotta bling bling.  I bet it runs great, and I hope it does everything you want it too.  I discourage laptops like these (see previous post) but at the same time if you gave me laptop like that, I would take it and run-smilling the whole time.  

[Balaso]

don't worry muff, I have some tax return money set aside for some desktop upgrades...

[MuffDiver]

no worries mate... Like I said, if someone was buying one for me, I would take it.  But, I am a bit to "tight" when it comes to fancy bling bling.   And just so there isn't any confusion, I would love to have your laptop if you decide you dont want it anymore.

[Balaso]

My first 3dmark 05 test yielded a score of 6681. I did not tweak it in any way, all the cards factory defaults are in place. I want to disable anti liasing an run it again...

[SK_CROW]

Nice!  That new 7800 makes a huge difference.  I only got up to around 4800 on my gaming  laptop: 2Ghz (760 Sonoma),1 gig ram, 256MB Nvidia Go 6800, 100gig 7200rpm hd.

[Balaso]

thats a real nice setup you got too Crow! Nothing at all wrong with the 6800 by any means.  

[sK_Cookie]

oh btw Office Depot sells dell ink, hehe might want to check to see if they have your models ink.  God I love remanufactured ink with altered ink casing tops.