- Sep 5, 2005
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How would you reply if this was YOUR friend?
his e-mail ----->
"I'm going with a gaming laptop. I still have no money though. Look around and find me a GO 7900 gtx 512 meg video card for a laptop. If I can find one I'm going to go with the Inspiron E1705. It's the exact same laptop as the XPS M1705 with the exact same upgrade choices, except that video card. The inspiron only upgrades to the GO 7900GS 256 meg card. Which is still way friggin faster than what I've got. It uses the exact same everything the XPS does, mobo chipset, chassis, the upgrade display I'm looking at is it's display, processor selections, hd options, memory options, etc. The only difference is that video card, and it's a huge difference. But it's not worth paying the XPS price tag of $3500 with the same options.
Here it is, inspiron version:
Core 2 Duo @ 2.2 Ghz w/4 megs L2
17" widescreen uber display option
2 Gigs DDR2
80Gig 7200 rpm
HD audio option, with a built in subwoofer
GO 7900 GS 256 meg vid card
Windows XP Pro
Upgraded to top battery
Wireless connection
I'll buy my own USB mouse, don't like the one you can get from Dell
Looking for that GO 7900GTX, 256 meg version
Inspiron Cost $2300
XPS Cost $3500
So it seems there is a $1200 XPS tax...
Now the Inspiron runs BF2 at a mixture of medium/maximum settings at that 1900x1600 (something like that) resolution at 45 fps. I forget the other settings it was benched at, something like 1600x1400 and another one. It was about 7-10 fps higher for each reduced screen resolution. The XPS, with the 512 GTX ran it at the same mixture of medium/maximum settings, 1900x1600 and at 75 ish frames per second.
If I can find that video card, I'll slap it into the Inspiron and it's the exact same thing as the XPS then, but about a grand cheaper.
Either way the Inspiron model is about a billion times more powerful than what I've got now, it's mobile, it's cool looking, I'm getting it. My rig plays BF2 at 800x600 with all settings at low or off and I get a choppy 25-30 fps, but it drops to single digits in smoke, artillary, or inside buildings for some reason. Warlord, inside the stronghold it's down to 5 fps. I fall a lot trying to get on the roof at that rate." <------- end of his email
his e-mail ----->
"I'm going with a gaming laptop. I still have no money though. Look around and find me a GO 7900 gtx 512 meg video card for a laptop. If I can find one I'm going to go with the Inspiron E1705. It's the exact same laptop as the XPS M1705 with the exact same upgrade choices, except that video card. The inspiron only upgrades to the GO 7900GS 256 meg card. Which is still way friggin faster than what I've got. It uses the exact same everything the XPS does, mobo chipset, chassis, the upgrade display I'm looking at is it's display, processor selections, hd options, memory options, etc. The only difference is that video card, and it's a huge difference. But it's not worth paying the XPS price tag of $3500 with the same options.
Here it is, inspiron version:
Core 2 Duo @ 2.2 Ghz w/4 megs L2
17" widescreen uber display option
2 Gigs DDR2
80Gig 7200 rpm
HD audio option, with a built in subwoofer
GO 7900 GS 256 meg vid card
Windows XP Pro
Upgraded to top battery
Wireless connection
I'll buy my own USB mouse, don't like the one you can get from Dell
Looking for that GO 7900GTX, 256 meg version
Inspiron Cost $2300
XPS Cost $3500
So it seems there is a $1200 XPS tax...
Now the Inspiron runs BF2 at a mixture of medium/maximum settings at that 1900x1600 (something like that) resolution at 45 fps. I forget the other settings it was benched at, something like 1600x1400 and another one. It was about 7-10 fps higher for each reduced screen resolution. The XPS, with the 512 GTX ran it at the same mixture of medium/maximum settings, 1900x1600 and at 75 ish frames per second.
If I can find that video card, I'll slap it into the Inspiron and it's the exact same thing as the XPS then, but about a grand cheaper.
Either way the Inspiron model is about a billion times more powerful than what I've got now, it's mobile, it's cool looking, I'm getting it. My rig plays BF2 at 800x600 with all settings at low or off and I get a choppy 25-30 fps, but it drops to single digits in smoke, artillary, or inside buildings for some reason. Warlord, inside the stronghold it's down to 5 fps. I fall a lot trying to get on the roof at that rate." <------- end of his email