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  1. 04-17-2003, 06:52 PM #1
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    Lightbulb I have $3000 to spend on a notebook, please help!

    So, I have $3000 and I want to buy a great notebook. I want to be able to do some serious gaming. It should have a superfast processor(3GHZ or so) and at least a 60G harddrive. If you know of any deals for me please contact me.

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  2. 04-18-2003, 05:26 PM #2
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    Do you care about weight or battery consumption?
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  3. 04-18-2003, 05:40 PM #3
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    I don't care about the weight. I know that a performance notebook's battery life isn't going to be that great, but I would like it to be no less than 3 hours.
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    I would wait for a couple of months for the new DX9 video cards to come out. They should be here real soon. Here is ATI's press release. The NVidia products should be coming to the party a little later. I would probably get a Centrino (Pentium-M) laptop since they are extremely competitive, performance wise, with the P4-M and you get so much more battery life. They will be more expensive, last longer on a charge, and lighter. If you want to pay more and get those luxuries then go with the Centrino. Even though the P4-Ms outpace the Centrinos in some benchmarks, the Centrinos outpace the P4-Ms in gaming. If you can't wait then Dell has some good laptops with Mobility Radeon 9000 64MB chips.
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  6. 04-21-2003, 09:22 AM #5
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    Originally posted by andoryuutenno
    I don't care about the weight. I know that a performance notebook's battery life isn't going to be that great, but I would like it to be no less than 3 hours.
    3 hours is a very long time for any notebook to run on a single battery. If you need 3 hours, your best bet is to get an extra battery that fits the multi use bay. Rated battery life assumes normal business functions rather than intense game playing. Even so, my 5 hour rated notebook runs out of battery power short of 2 hours of 100% CPU utilization. That's with a new battery. Batteries start to lose the ability to fully recharge after a few cycles. The loss continues until the battery dies.
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  8. 05-19-2003, 01:49 AM #7
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    Aliewanre, with the 3GH+ P4 and the MR 9600. Nothing will touch it. Its heavy, and the battery life is fairly limp tho.
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  9. 05-19-2003, 05:33 PM #8
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    I'm waiting for the MR 9600 to come out and it's still not listed on Alienware's configurator
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    I shall now point you to Sager. Actually, a better place to buy these particular notebooks would be PCTorque.
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  12. 06-03-2003, 07:02 PM #10
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    The Alienware Area 51-m will NOT see the ATi 9600m, rather they are using the mobile nVidia GFX chip. Check out Press releases at nvidia.com
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  13. 06-24-2003, 02:14 AM #11
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    I went with the Fujitsu N-series. http://webshop.fujitsupc.com/fpc/Eco...n.do?series=AN
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