all i've got to say is "say goodbye to your little friend" AKA the battery.
that thing's just WAY too powerful for it's own good.
problems i see with it:
(1) 120gb hd's running at 5400rpm. for the price, i would have expected AT
LEAST 7200rpm drives in that size. 5400rpm is downright slow for what that
thing's power potential will generate, and 120gb HD's are 40gb too small.
(2) 2gb of ram? any laptop running vista NEEDS 2gb. again, 4gb should be
standard.
(3) HD DVD standard: you should have the choice between HD DVD or Blu Ray.
considering that neither has definitively established themselves, this is a
scary proposition to be stuck with a drive that may be completely useless
within a year or two.
(4) Desktop CPU on a laptop. this has ALWAYS been a recipe for disaster.
although desktop design now has paid more attention to the power useage of a
CPU, laptop CPU's have always been, and will always be, better in terms of
power usage, cooling and ventilation, which is why they take longer to
release than their comparable desktop bretheren (with the exception of the
Pentium D processor, an offshoot of the Pentium M(obile) processor, which
was the descendant of the Pentium III (a superior architecture to the
Pentium 4 platform, which was universally panned for bring too hot/loud for
anything other than an airplane). using a desktop CPU will effectively
negate any power-saving potential of that beheamouth, and lead to many
problems: you computer will either (a) need a car battery to sustain life at
it's "advertised" speed, or (b) run slower than the advertised speed in
order to conserve power to run longer than 30 minutes. regardless, you lose
in terms of investment, unless you are plugged in, and then, it's not much
of a "portable" computer anyway (which is what you have claimed you want,
but you will always be tempted to take it with you on the road).
take my word for it: stay away from this thing.
Gabriel A. Couriel
2006 DML Fantasy Football Champion
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Oct 02 2007 - 15:23:18 EDT