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07-04-2003, 12:53 PM
Myself, I've always been a desktop person, building (partly) myself. At the moment I have an Athlon 1800+, GeForce 4 128DDR, 30GB HD, 512 MB DDR Ram. It's nothing special, but it's respectable. Although, I'm having so much trouble with it at the moment!
Anyway I'm off to University in about 3 months time and I'm thinking, I'm gonna be broke, Rooms cost â£55 p/week and we only get a â£3300 loan at the beginning of the year. I don't have the money to keep upgrading anymore so I'll have to set off to Uni with a pc that will need to last me a good year or 2 before even thinking about upgrading.
I'm looking at the small towers and reverting back to a smaller screen (15-17"), due to a lack of space in the room.
Then I thought about a laptop. We all say we use our comps/laps for work, but everyone knows the truth, we all want a pc that can run games smoothly as well.
Reading an article the other day about how Notebooks are starting to compare with desktops, and I'm thinking it can't be true. However, with the introduction of DirectX9 graphic chips for notebooks. They really are starting to match some of the standard (decent) desktops of today.
The mobility and 'go' cards of ATi and Geforce really are starting to shape up.
Looking at the results from some of the more recent games (UT2k3, Serious Sam, Aquanox 2) and even Doom3, HL2, I got to say, those graphics look pretty damn good.
The benchmarks show with UT2k3 flyby of 122 FPS and gameplay of 51 FPS, that's with an Athlon 2500+, Mobility Radeon 9600, 512 MB DDR and Dx9 with Win XP. Now that easily matches if not beats my current system specs and it's not really all that expensive.
Take the Peacock laptop - www.freeliner.de (http://www.freeliner.de)
It costs â£995, the specs are:
512 DDR-SDRAM (PC333)
Athlon 2500+ XP
ATi Mobility Radeon 9600 (64mb)
40GB Toshiba HD
CDRW Combo Drive
and looks:http://www.peacock-products.de/cms/media/web_img/7438.gif
So, with all the improvements in laptops will we start to see a rise in notebooks compared to desktops. They're smaller, quieter, travel worthy and in some cases beat a desktop PC down with a price like â£995.
What do you guys think? Is it worth going for a laptop or sticking to the desktop. Any bad experiences with 1 or the other. Any recommendations?
Anyway I'm off to University in about 3 months time and I'm thinking, I'm gonna be broke, Rooms cost â£55 p/week and we only get a â£3300 loan at the beginning of the year. I don't have the money to keep upgrading anymore so I'll have to set off to Uni with a pc that will need to last me a good year or 2 before even thinking about upgrading.
I'm looking at the small towers and reverting back to a smaller screen (15-17"), due to a lack of space in the room.
Then I thought about a laptop. We all say we use our comps/laps for work, but everyone knows the truth, we all want a pc that can run games smoothly as well.
Reading an article the other day about how Notebooks are starting to compare with desktops, and I'm thinking it can't be true. However, with the introduction of DirectX9 graphic chips for notebooks. They really are starting to match some of the standard (decent) desktops of today.
The mobility and 'go' cards of ATi and Geforce really are starting to shape up.
Looking at the results from some of the more recent games (UT2k3, Serious Sam, Aquanox 2) and even Doom3, HL2, I got to say, those graphics look pretty damn good.
The benchmarks show with UT2k3 flyby of 122 FPS and gameplay of 51 FPS, that's with an Athlon 2500+, Mobility Radeon 9600, 512 MB DDR and Dx9 with Win XP. Now that easily matches if not beats my current system specs and it's not really all that expensive.
Take the Peacock laptop - www.freeliner.de (http://www.freeliner.de)
It costs â£995, the specs are:
512 DDR-SDRAM (PC333)
Athlon 2500+ XP
ATi Mobility Radeon 9600 (64mb)
40GB Toshiba HD
CDRW Combo Drive
and looks:http://www.peacock-products.de/cms/media/web_img/7438.gif
So, with all the improvements in laptops will we start to see a rise in notebooks compared to desktops. They're smaller, quieter, travel worthy and in some cases beat a desktop PC down with a price like â£995.
What do you guys think? Is it worth going for a laptop or sticking to the desktop. Any bad experiences with 1 or the other. Any recommendations?