Solved! Wait for Sandy Bridge or go for it now?

jbwbizzo

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FYI, this a crosspost from the Systems forum--just looking for additional opinions...


Hello,
I was about to get a laptop with a SB CPU earlier this week but then it disappeared. I'm computerless and have been for a while, and it really getting difficult. The most intense thing I do with my machines is play moderately demanding games (e.g., first person RPGs), edit photos, and do the normal net things. I could either wait for the SB to come out, or get something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834220921

I know this CPU will never touch the SB, but I doubt any SB-based laptop I can get for $1000-1200 will have a GPU as serious as the GTX 460M on the machine I linked to. Plus, I know that GPUs are more important than CPUs for gaming, and the i7-740 is still a pretty speedy card. Any thoughts? I'm really torn right now...