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Subject: My new laptop
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Specs:

1 Inspiron E1705, Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7200 (4MB/2.00GHz/667MHz)
1 17 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA, for Inspiron
1 2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm, for Inspiron
1 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS, for Inspiron
1 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive for Inspiron
1 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, English
1 8X DVD+/-RW Drive, for Inspiron
1 Integrated High Definition Audio, Inspiron
1 Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps) for Inspiron
1 80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery, for Inspiron
1 Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module (2.0+EDR), Vista

Cost:
$2,652.00

Discounts:
Dell promotion: -$581
University Student Discount: -$231.12
PC Care Bundle Discount: -$144.97
Total discounts: -$957.09

New cost (before taxes):
$1,694.91

I guess the only good thing that comes from being a university student is the mad discounts you can get all over the place. Oh, and, there is that education thingie too.

I should be able to run H2V on this thing (probably on low settings though), but I doubt I'll get H2V for another couple months (gotta let the checking account recover before any other purchases are made).

Does anyone have any experience with the GeForce Go 7900 GS?

  • 06.04.2007 5:54 AM PDT
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My laptop:
HP NX 9420
Intel Core Duo T7400
2 gb ram
100 gb 7200 rpm drive
ati mobility x1600 256 mb

Play passibly on medium --> barely any lag.

My home PC:

3.2 GHZ P4
2 GB Ram
7200 RPM drive
regular ati x1600 256 MB

Plays about the same. The desktop may be a bit faster. I will bench them with fraps and see.

  • 06.04.2007 6:03 AM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

Posted by: McKeegan_WRX
I guess the only good thing that comes from being a university student is the mad discounts you can get all over the place. Oh, and, there is that education thingie too.

I should be able to run H2V on this thing (probably on low settings though), but I doubt I'll get H2V for another couple months (gotta let the checking account recover before any other purchases are made).

Does anyone have any experience with the GeForce Go 7900 GS?

Yeah the discounts are awesome, I got vista for $120. But I haven't had any expierence with the 7900, but I have had some nice visuals with some of ATI's mobile cards.

  • 06.04.2007 7:29 AM PDT
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Posted by: McKeegan_WRX
I guess the only good thing that comes from being a university student is the mad discounts you can get all over the place. Oh, and, there is that education thingie too.

I should be able to run H2V on this thing (probably on low settings though), but I doubt I'll get H2V for another couple months (gotta let the checking account recover before any other purchases are made).

Does anyone have any experience with the GeForce Go 7900 GS?

Yeah the discounts are awesome, I got vista for $120. But I haven't had any expierence with the 7900, but I have had some nice visuals with some of ATI's mobile cards.
I was only allowed two options for mobile graphics, the ATI x1400 and the GeForce 7900. From what I've read on Anandtech, the x1400 gets like, 2.3 FPS on Battlefield 2, with 4x AA. Yes, 2.3 FPS. It seemed like a fairly bad mobile card for any kind of mediocre gaming. Besides, it's an Inspiron, not an XPS (the discounts only applied to the Inspiron, not the XPS), so I gotta take a cut on the graphics chip anyway, right?

  • 06.04.2007 7:36 AM PDT

Slaying noobs since 2007.

Posted by: McKeegan_WRX
Posted by: Desert Fox RWTF
Posted by: McKeegan_WRX
I guess the only good thing that comes from being a university student is the mad discounts you can get all over the place. Oh, and, there is that education thingie too.

I should be able to run H2V on this thing (probably on low settings though), but I doubt I'll get H2V for another couple months (gotta let the checking account recover before any other purchases are made).

Does anyone have any experience with the GeForce Go 7900 GS?

Yeah the discounts are awesome, I got vista for $120. But I haven't had any expierence with the 7900, but I have had some nice visuals with some of ATI's mobile cards.
I was only allowed two options for mobile graphics, the ATI x1400 and the GeForce 7900. From what I've read on Anandtech, the x1400 gets like, 2.3 FPS on Battlefield 2, with 4x AA. Yes, 2.3 FPS. It seemed like a fairly bad mobile card for any kind of mediocre gaming. Besides, it's an Inspiron, not an XPS (the discounts only applied to the Inspiron, not the XPS), so I gotta take a cut on the graphics chip anyway, right?

Yeah, I meant the ATI's top mobile cards the rest are............ well I don't need to say, but I guess the GeForce would be fairly good in laptop terms. I mean you can only get so good of a performance on a laptop.

  • 06.04.2007 7:56 AM PDT
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I have to buy a laptop for college this summer as well. Clemson University's contract is with Lenovo-IBM, so in order to get all the free software and extended warranty and such, I have to get one. The IBM T60P (the one I'm getting--$1600) has a 256MB ATI Mobility FireGL V5250... which is specified as a "business" video card. Anyone know anything them? ATI bought out FireGL a while back, and from what I understand the V5250 is based off the Radeon X1700, which is a decent "performance-class" card. The problem is, I've also read that the card, being a business-oriented GPU, the drivers for it will be erratic. The card has: 12 pixel shader processors, 5 vertex shader processors, and 256-bit 4-channel DDR1/DDR2/GDDR3 memory interface... so I'm not worried about its ability to run games, but rather the driver support to get the most out of the card. Maybe I can soft-mod it if it gives me problems.

Btw, just becuase, NotebookReview.com http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=122340 has a few Mobile/Laptop graphics cards charts that are helpful when shopping for cards. In your case, McKeegan, the 7900GS is placed into the highest teered level of laptop graphics cards on the chart: The high-end cards.

Oh, and what school are you going to?



[Edited on 06.04.2007 10:46 AM PDT]

  • 06.04.2007 10:24 AM PDT
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Thanks for the link Bungie Jumping, I appreciate it. I go to school at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. I've lived here pretty much all my life.

Regarding the FireGL, those are typically used more often for creating 3D visuals and editing graphics and videos, rather than playing video games.

  • 06.04.2007 10:47 AM PDT