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Karsten Rutledge

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Join date: 8 Feb 2005

Posts: 841

05-17-2006 23:10

Sager Notebook (AKA Sager, Pro-Star, Dell, AlienWare, Voodoo, etc, etc, etc CLEVO) is taking pre-orders for this new beauty:

http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/notebooks/product.cfm?ProductType=5760

Intel Duo, nVidia 7900 GTX, 1920x1200 17" display. Thinking about ordering me one to replace my busted laptop. With 2gb of RAM and the 2ghz Duo it runs around 2500. (after 100 off for preorders)

A lawyer friend of mine has the older model of this from the same company, with the old Centrino and a 7800 GTX. We loaded Oblivion on it and it said 'Oh, nice kit, dude, we're going with Ultra High settings by default, mmkay?' and thought Oblivion at 1920x1200 at full detail was a pretty good joke. And that was on the old kit.

My brother works for an OEM manufacturer and benched an Intel 2ghz Duo against a 3.6ghz P4 with Lightwave rendering the same file on both machines. The duo totally whooped the P4 with roughly equivalent hardware besides the processors. And not just whipped, but whipped badly.

My currently defunct laptop is a P4 3.6ghz with an nVidia 6800, it ran SL pretty good, but the aforementioned Centrino laptop totally shamed it. I'm itching to try SL on the newer Duo with the 7900.

So is anyone currently running SL on an Intel Duo system and how would they rate the performance on it? SL likes its processing power just as much as it does it's video, unlike most games, but the Duo seems like it's got that covered pretty good.

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Cottonteil Muromachi

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05-18-2006 03:26

My guess is, it will run SL at about 20fps most of the time.

Buy it and tell me I'm wrong.

Baba Yamamoto

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05-18-2006 10:08

My desktop is less than half that system... I get at least 20 fps ;0

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Jauani Wu

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05-18-2006 10:45

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the resolution is not as high but it's a 19" screen and has dual SLI graphics cards.

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Karsten Rutledge

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05-18-2006 10:55

From: Jauani Wu

alienware

the resolution is not as high but it's a 19" screen and has dual SLI graphics cards.

Yeah, AlienWare (now owned by Dell), Sager, Pro-Star, Voodoo, yada yada they all have the 19" SLi, it's the same company. Sigh.

At any rate, yeah, nice laptop, but the resolution is a deal breaker for me. Incidentally, 19" is just a little too freakin' big.

Also, my old laptop was a P4 3.6 with a 6800 and I got between 25-40 FPS most of the time. Considering we're talking about a video card that's about half the speed of the 7800 and a Hyperthreading processor which means it was about equivalent to two 1.8ghz processors, it seems like the 2ghz Duo with a 7900 would be pretty spiffy.

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Shirley Marquez

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Join date: 28 Oct 2005

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Even the 17" is too big...

05-18-2006 11:20

Well, for my tastes, anyway. I'd prefer something in the 5 lb. class and a 14-15 inch screen. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge nobody is making a laptop that size with decent video. The closest I've seen are the MacBook Pro and the various Acer systems with 15 inch screens, Core Duo, and Radeon X1600 video, but they're still not in the video class of a 7900 and they're 6.5 pounds.

If Apple had included the X1600 in the new MacBook (not the Pro), I might have been persuaded to buy one.

It may be that you simply can't put a 7900 into the size of machine I want; the heat and/or power budgets might be too large. But it's still what I want.

Ideal Second Life Laptop?
Karsten Rutledge Linux User Join date: 8 Feb 2005 Posts: 841	05-17-2006 23:10 Sager Notebook (AKA Sager, Pro-Star, Dell, AlienWare, Voodoo, etc, etc, etc CLEVO) is taking pre-orders for this new beauty: http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/notebooks/product.cfm?ProductType=5760 Intel Duo, nVidia 7900 GTX, 1920x1200 17" display. Thinking about ordering me one to replace my busted laptop. With 2gb of RAM and the 2ghz Duo it runs around 2500. (after 100 off for preorders) A lawyer friend of mine has the older model of this from the same company, with the old Centrino and a 7800 GTX. We loaded Oblivion on it and it said 'Oh, nice kit, dude, we're going with Ultra High settings by default, mmkay?' and thought Oblivion at 1920x1200 at full detail was a pretty good joke. And that was on the old kit. My brother works for an OEM manufacturer and benched an Intel 2ghz Duo against a 3.6ghz P4 with Lightwave rendering the same file on both machines. The duo totally whooped the P4 with roughly equivalent hardware besides the processors. And not just whipped, but whipped badly. My currently defunct laptop is a P4 3.6ghz with an nVidia 6800, it ran SL pretty good, but the aforementioned Centrino laptop totally shamed it. I'm itching to try SL on the newer Duo with the 7900. So is anyone currently running SL on an Intel Duo system and how would they rate the performance on it? SL likes its processing power just as much as it does it's video, unlike most games, but the Duo seems like it's got that covered pretty good. _____________________ New products, updates, rants, randomness. Addictive high-quality games for sale: Greedy Greedy, On-A-Roll, Mancala and the newly released Khet laser strategy game.
Cottonteil Muromachi Abominable Join date: 2 Mar 2005 Posts: 1,071	05-18-2006 03:26 My guess is, it will run SL at about 20fps most of the time. Buy it and tell me I'm wrong.
Baba Yamamoto baba@slinked.net Join date: 26 May 2003 Posts: 1,024	05-18-2006 10:08 My desktop is less than half that system... I get at least 20 fps ;0 _____________________ Open Metaverse Foundation - http://www.openmetaverse.org Meerkat viewer - http://meerkatviewer.org
Jauani Wu pancake rabbit Join date: 7 Apr 2003 Posts: 3,835	05-18-2006 10:45 alienware the resolution is not as high but it's a 19" screen and has dual SLI graphics cards. _____________________ http://wu-had.blogspot.com/ read my blog Mecha Jauani Wu hero of justice __________________________________________________ "Oh Jauani, you're terrible." - khamon fate
Karsten Rutledge Linux User Join date: 8 Feb 2005 Posts: 841	05-18-2006 10:55 From: Jauani Wu alienware the resolution is not as high but it's a 19" screen and has dual SLI graphics cards. Yeah, AlienWare (now owned by Dell), Sager, Pro-Star, Voodoo, yada yada they all have the 19" SLi, it's the same company. Sigh. At any rate, yeah, nice laptop, but the resolution is a deal breaker for me. Incidentally, 19" is just a little too freakin' big. Also, my old laptop was a P4 3.6 with a 6800 and I got between 25-40 FPS most of the time. Considering we're talking about a video card that's about half the speed of the 7800 and a Hyperthreading processor which means it was about equivalent to two 1.8ghz processors, it seems like the 2ghz Duo with a 7900 would be pretty spiffy. _____________________ New products, updates, rants, randomness. Addictive high-quality games for sale: Greedy Greedy, On-A-Roll, Mancala and the newly released Khet laser strategy game.
Shirley Marquez Ethical SLut Join date: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 788	Even the 17" is too big... 05-18-2006 11:20 Well, for my tastes, anyway. I'd prefer something in the 5 lb. class and a 14-15 inch screen. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge nobody is making a laptop that size with decent video. The closest I've seen are the MacBook Pro and the various Acer systems with 15 inch screens, Core Duo, and Radeon X1600 video, but they're still not in the video class of a 7900 and they're 6.5 pounds. If Apple had included the X1600 in the new MacBook (not the Pro), I might have been persuaded to buy one. It may be that you simply can't put a 7900 into the size of machine I want; the heat and/or power budgets might be too large. But it's still what I want.

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