New laptop, whoop whoop

[Thordic]

I'm going to be traveling a lot for business over the next year, plus my PC was getting old, so I figured I'd just bite the bullet and get a good laptop.

Its a CyberPower Xplorer X7-7700 (based off an MSI MS-1719)



17" WSXGA+ Widescreen TFT Display 1680x1050 Pixels
Intel Core2 Duo M 2.00Ghz 800FSB
4GB PC5300 DDR2-667
160GB 7200RPM SATA150
NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT 512MB with Turbo Cache Technology
Built-in MS-6837D Bluetooth 2.0
Intel 4965AGN Wireless 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N 54Mbps MiniPCI Card
8X DVD-RW

Should be here by the weekend, I'm pumped. My current PC is a four year old P4 2.8Ghz HTT with 1GB of ram and a Radeon 9800 Pro.

[Dend78]

hahah that thing is gonna eat your PC and want more, awsome lookin setup, congrats on the bullet biting

[Pacifist_Farmer]

Congrats, thats a really reasonably priced laptop for the hardware, and they even have an option to ship it with XP.

[personman]

17" @ 1680x1050? wtfbbq????
That thing is going to have like 30 minutes battery life

[Thordic]

I got it shipped without an OS. I already have XP Pro and it saved me like $83.

Total cost for the laptop was under $1700, and thats with rush shipping. You could get it for something closer to $1500 if you weren't in a hurry. Sucks to pay extra but I didn't have much notice about this upcoming trip.

[rawbutter]

A 4GB processor?

I guess I haven't been paying attention to technology advancements. Last I heard, they were still stuck around 2GB.

Cool laptop, BTW.

[Thordic]

Its a Core Duo 2.00 Ghz.

PRocessors don't come in GB Theres 4GB of RAM?

[teufelhunden]

A 4GB processor?

I guess I haven't been paying attention to technology advancements. Last I heard, they were still stuck around 2GB.

Cool laptop, BTW.

Nah, that's 4gb of RAM.

Processors aren't really "stuck" at 2ghz-ish. It's more that with all/most processor lines up to and including P4, most speed advances were via clock speed [the ghz number] and lately AMD/Intel/etc have been working on speeding up processor operations in other ways, in a nutshell; multiple cores on a chip have come into affordable fashion. Net net, today's 2.4 ghz Intel chip will outperform Intel's fastest P4 which clocked at 3.2 ghz [if memory serves].

[Pneumagger]

Prepare for 15 minutes of battery life - lol.

Nice laptop indeed though. As an owner of nearly 5 new laptops in 4 years, I can say with confidence they are the worst investment in the world. It seems like they go "out dated" faster and there is never good resale on them. But hey - I still love them and only buy the midrange laptops now.

[personman]

Nah, that's 4gb of RAM.

Processors aren't really "stuck" at 2ghz-ish. It's more that with all/most processor lines up to and including P4, most speed advances were via clock speed [the ghz number] and lately AMD/Intel/etc have been working on speeding up processor operations in other ways, in a nutshell; multiple cores on a chip have come into affordable fashion. Net net, today's 2.4 ghz Intel chip will outperform Intel's fastest P4 which clocked at 3.2 ghz [if memory serves].

People actually got the p4 up to like 8ghz on liquid n2

[Dend78]

People actually got the p4 up to like 8ghz on liquid n2

thats screaming fast, pretty sad when you would be online gaming and having less lag than the host

[jenarelJAM]

Dang, that's almost the same specs I was thinking of getting for a gaming laptop a couple months ago. I decided to forgo gaming and go with a tablet, but definitely a nice computer. What's the battery life on that thing?