yoooo

[mathurinaxe]

well in about 7 or so months, im gonna spend what i have been saving up for an awsome laptop. ultimate gaming one =D. i was looking at alienware but they charge too much for their products --;. so i was wondering if u can recomend either some sites that have good labtops. or even if u build your own machines i would love to check them out. my price range goes up to 5k USD.


i was also looking at this perticular notebook:
Falcon NorthWest: FragBook DR 6800

specs:

Processor: up to 3.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) or up to AMD Athlon64 4800+(AMD Model)
Memory: 533 MHz DDR2 Memory upgradeable to 2048 MB - four SODIMM sockets on Intel model, 400 MHz DDR Memory upgradeable to 2048 MB - four SODIMM sockets on AMD model.
Display: 17" WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) widescreen
Optional: 17" UXGA (1900 x 1200) widescreen
Video RAM: 256 MB dedicated DDR3 VRAM
Video Card: nVidia GeForceâ„¢ 6800 Go/7800 GTX GO PCI Express Graphics
Supports TV-Out feature
Hard Drive: Up to 160 GB of HDD space with two physical hard drives
(5,400 or 7,200 rpm)
2 drive bays, RAID 0 or 1 capability
Optical Drives (2 drive bays):
2x 8x Dual DVD+-R/+-RW
Networking: Built-in 56K V.90/ V.92 AC-Link Modem
Built-in 10 Base-T/ 100 Base-TX LAN module
1 Gigabit LAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g Wireless LAN
Sound: High performance Sound-Blaster Pro compatible audio system
with virtual 6-channel audio output
S/PDIF Digital output(5.1 CH)
4 internal speakers
Up-front CD/DVD/audio controls
Keyboard: 102 keys w/ numerical key pad
Touch Pad: Touch pad with 3 buttons
Ports: 4 USB 2.0 ports
1 External DVI port
1 Parallel(ECP & EPP) port
1 RJ-45 for LAN access
1 RJ- 11 for Modem connection
2 mini IEEE1394 Firewire port
1 S-Video port for TV output
1 headphone jack
1 microphone jack
1 DC-In jack • SD (Secure Digital) slot
1FIR (IrDA1.1)/ ASKIR
1 dual function PS/2 port
1 serial/com port
PCMCIA: CB1410 Cardbus controller
One Type II socket
Media: Standard internal 6-in-1 Card Reader (MultiMedia Card, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, SmartMedia Card, Compact Flash Types I & II, IBM Microdrive)
Video: Standard 300K pixel Video Camera for video conferencing
RAID:
Optional: RAID 0 (for better performance)
Optional: RAID 1 (for data safety)
Multi-Media: CATV tuner with one S-Video input jack and one line-in jack for audio input exchangeable with sub-woofer
Battery: 12-cells Smart Li-Ion battery (45min DVD runtime)
Power: Universal AC adapter Input: AC 100-250V AC 180W max.
Dimension: 15.5" (W) x 11.7" (D) x 1.9"(H)
Weight: 11.1 lbs (empty) 12.7 lbs (fully loaded)
Carrying Case: "Black Ops" aluminum briefcase:
Inside Dimensions 17"(L) x 12"(W) x 4¼"(D)
Outside Dimensions 18"(L) x 13"(W) x 5"(D)
fits in aircraft overhead carry-on bins


what ya think?

[Thrasher]

Re: yoooo

5,000 is a lot to spend on a easy to break computer personally i would buy a 2k laptop and build a 3k desktop but thats just me. There are some New Sli notebooks IbuyPower is selling one soon and those should run you 3kish, but calling them mobile maybe kind of a stretch. (also i have never bought anything from ibuypower so i cant give a recommendation one way or the other)

Just so you know SLI is linking 2 videocards

Now the DIY notebooks are becoming more common but it i have not found a good source for them and i can only think of a few companys that make them Asus MSI Gigabyte and i have no clue how 2 find notebook video cards

And just so you know the High end notebooks are basically the same thing from all the company's except the falcon and voodooPC just have custom paint jobs. Just so you know (1 of my friends bought a alienware and noticed it was the same thing voodoopc was selling ect..)

But if your gonna blow large sum on money on gaming notebook i would go for the sli its HUGE heavy and should kick ass

Personally I would buy this 1 for work ^^
http://www.mobilityguru.com/2006/03/...ting_twinhead/

And buy the sli notebook for home, Oh and dell also has a very nice gameing notebook you may wanna look into (and yes i h8 dell, but it looks like a good gameing notebook from the benchmarks)