Un-finished Santa Rosa laptop lineup - Page 2

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Ah what is going on? You posted a reply on MY thread and I don't recieved a notification email? What is Tom's doing these days?

Mark: you should also show him what the heatsink mod did for Silent Bob. I couldn't stop laughing when I saw those pics!

Yeah, I've been meaning to add those. You asked and you shall receive. Thanks for the link BTW.

Because until a few days ago, I had no idea about the new MBPs. Also, no one besides you has chimed in about them. If you have a link to the information, post it and I will gladly put it on the list. I can't do it ATM, freakin finals week at school.

It has been done. Most people on these forums don't talk about Apple, because not many of us are fans (myself included). Flame war not intended.

Well, apple Mac Book Pro are pretty expensive for the hardware...
Thats the reason I'm not buying one. They look like nice but they cant be customized much.

SWEET!
I want it!
Where can I buy that in canada?
The 570ru I mean...
Cause im not buying from there, their pricing is crazy

That's what I'm hoping to do. Unfortunately, I haven't heard back from Mark in 4 days and I only have until the end of this week to order a laptop. Come on Mark get back to me!!!

Know of any place with a good 12.1" notebook? I looked at your site and while the hardware looks top-notch, the smallest unit you guys carry is 15.4", which would have little chance of fitting on the teeny tiny tray tables/fold-out desks (yuck) that I have to work on when I'm not at home.

First of all whoever posted the link that led me to "DreamBook Power D90 SLI" IS THA MAN!! http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au [...] 15&id=2218

Granted the computer is mad expensive maxed out 7500!!! which is really out of hand but it is the best of the best! something i am always looking for. Dual 8800GTX video cards best processors out right now Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93G 4M Cache 1066M FSB Processor i mean can you say RIDICULOUS! Raided hard drives 4 gigs of ram, display at 1920X1200.... but for 7500 it's a bit outta hand i'd honestly rather pick up eurocoms top of the line computer, performance would be roughly the same but you would save 2000 dollars.....which is tons although 5500 dollars is still tons of cash lol...biggest difference is you get dual 7950GTX video cards instead of the 8800 GTX which is big i admit, but at least you get the same processor and everything else (comp called EUROCOM D900C PHANTOM - www.eurocom.com )

But wow, it took them a while to get dual core/sli/raid with 1920X1200 but its finallly here baby and it's nice to see

Just thought i'd post an FYI for ppl looking for the best of the best

Yeah, you unfortunately missed the entire part were we decide that it's a bad idea. This is the same basic laptop that Sager/Clevo has been touting for the last 3 months. Guess what happened? They had to remove the 2x8800GTXs for the list because THERE ARE NO 8800GTX cards for laptops. Right now that laptop is a "fake". It is a bad idea because think of it. Desktop CPUs generate far more heat than their laptop counter parts. In case anyone was wondering, heat and laptops DO NOT mix. Also, the main reason there are no 8800s for laptops right now is, you guessed it, heat and power. Those cards provide way too much heat so add to that the heat from the CPU and your case will literally melt around the mobo. Throw power hungry RAID arrays on top of the power hungry 8800s and you have a power brick the size of a small car. At this point you are FAR better off building a desktop. It will cost you less and you won't fry components every week from the heat build up.

wassup30

that laptop is a joke..

Actually, u can get this exact system for much less on various websites.

Laptops with desktop chips tend to fry, take lots of juice and dont last too long.

I would recommend that laptop to someone I really hate.

xoticpc.com for instance

Well yes there are Geforce 8800... just not Geforce GO 8800... So they are desktop cards.... and if u put 2 desktop Geforce 8800 in a laptop, bad things happen!

Wassup30, the DreamBook Power D90 SLI is the same thing as the Sager NP9260. Which can be seen here.

also it is the same thing as the Eurocom D900C Phantom

Let me see what is out there.
In the 12.1" market, they rarely come with powerful GPU's, but since that's not what you're looking for, you shouldn't have a problem.

The problem is going to be the 6 - 8 hours battery life you want. Honestly, that is going to be nearly impossible. They will tell you you're going to get about twice the battery life you are really going to get. That is just a given. Even machines that DO have incredibly long run times, quickly succumb to battery fatigue. That is like when you get a brand new phone, and you tell everyone how long the battery lasts, and in like a month you are like, "Man I have to charge this thing allot!"

Using a system, nearly always on battery power, the charging and de-charging of the battery, is going to chip away at the top end of the battery life.

I know that batteries do fade quite a bit over time. However, it's not the discharging and then charging them back up that kills them, it's the heat generated by the constant charging while the notebook is plugged in that really kills it. My old laptop (which had its power brick short out today, killing it ) originally had about a 3h 15m battery life. I used the first battery like everybody else does and just left it in the notebook at all times and had the notebook plugged in when it wasn't running on battery. The battery life dropped to about 1 hour within a year and a half and then died completely at a little shy of 3 years. I then got another battery for it and this time removed the battery from the computer when it was not being used or charged. Two years later, the battery had about 2h 20m life left in it.

So if a battery is rated at 8 hours new, then I suppose it should yield >= 6 hours up until roughly 1.5-ish years of age if I treat it well. That's not bad. I really need something with about 4-ish hours of charge in it and a 1 hour charging period, so an 8-hour battery should get me about 2.5-3 years of life at >= 4 hours runtime. I'll buy a new battery after that. I just don't want to buy a computer with 4 hours originally and then not be able to last through the 4-hour lectures in the morning anymore by the time spring rolls around.

Toshiba x205 now available for preorder. 8700 with 512MB of VRAM. Expensive though. Link

Wow... you ain't kidding!

$899 for 2 GB RAM!?!
Why did they go with only WXGA+ 1440x900 resolution?
I mean, it is personal preference, but many people are going to want more than that.
I don't see anywhere that I can configure a higher processor for the notebook either.

Well, toshiba offers a resolution up to WUXGA, its just not shown in the link given.

As for RAM, well, its pretty much the same for apple, dell, sony, etc... they all rip you off with updgrades like that... so u get 512mb ram (if possible) and upgrade it urself with parts u buy @ newegg.com.



K|N, is your Executioner-SR using the M570ru?

Only because it's been asked about 70 billion times.

If the 570ru is the black and orange one, then yes it is based off of that. Check the gallery on the K|N site for the new pics.

Hehe, I love that picture. It was th background on my desktop for almost a year a while back.

Everytime you ask that question K|N kills a puppy.... 8O Well, hopefully not, but that's what the picture is supposed to imply lol (except not about the question, well you get the idea)

Yup. It's still a nice looking laptop, I just don't know how much I like the orange. It's not horrible, but I think the older one was nicer. Eh, I'd still pay for it.

If I buy from K|N, will I have custom fees to get it shipped to Canada?