There are compromises to be made, that's for sure. It seems that this
is designed for the ability to easily move it from one place to another,
but not necessarily being "mobile" in the business laptop sense. It
appears to be a purpose-built portable gaming desktop PC. (Fine by me!)
It does have room to upgrade the RAM, the chipset is of Intel's "Mobile"
line (which helps somewhat), and the pr0n industry is leaning toward
HD-DVD. As long as you're aware of its intended purpose, then I'd say
do what you want. Its pimped. Just don't expect it to be a super-mobile
road-warrior notebook and you'll be just fine.
IOW, don't get too upset if your RT isn't that great on the trails.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of
> Gabriel A. Couriel
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:06 AM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: DML: RE: RE: RE: OT: Dual Hard Drives
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
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