Cheap, Insanely powerful Centrino based Lappy (w/ R9700)

[ForceCalibur]

Not sure how many people know about this, but powernotebooks.com and discountnotebooks.com (both with 10.0 and 9.5 excellent reseller ratings) have the Power M:6 and Chembook for VERY cheap. With a Radeon 9700 and up to PM 1.7 ghz, they really are excellent alternatives to like the Hypersonic CX6.

Just a thought for those of you lookin around for nice lappies. I for one would not even consider any iteration of P4s anymore, as they are heavy, powerhungry, and PMs are just as fast. Athlon 64s are nice, but there are just a plethora of problems and restrictions right now, which I hope will be solved within this year.

 

[Abhi]

Hmm... hell of a config....

http://www.powernotebooks.com/specials.php3?model_id=328

 

[Frightcrawler]

nice stuff!
thanks for the info ForceCalibur.

 

[aakerman]

Certainly looks a lot like the Zepto 4050 (Scandinavian brand) ... and these make very good notebooks, so it looks like a really good buy.

 

[lane42]

Hey ForceCalibur, I don't get what you mean by the Athlon64 Notebooks as being a plethora of problems and restrictions If you owned one you know this not to be true, just Ask any emachines 6805 owners

 

[ForceCalibur]

Mostly, I'm talking about the 800 mhz issue, it's incompatibility with DDR400, and some other stuff I heard. I'm not saying it's bad, infact, its great and futureproof, that is probably what I'll be getting when a socket 939 Athlon 64 comes out for laptops.

 

[lane42]

Well i think the 800mhz issue has been solved while running on batteries and i could be wrong, and someone correct me please, but i don't think there's DDR 400 for laptops.

 

[ShellGuy]

Lane I hate 2 be the one 2 do it but here . And im not sure about the 800mhz patch but if you go to Win2k you don't have the problem. Only a prob with XP.

Will

 

[lane42]

Thanks for the Link Will

 

[Abhi]

I think 9100 is DDR 400 too....

 

[alphonsus]

The Sager 2280 seems nice.
http://www.powernotebooks.com/specials.php3?model_id=295

 

[bdunosk]

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