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cavemanoc said:so 7950GTX is about as good as it gets until the die-shrink? (not interested in SLi - would like more than 3.2minutes of battery life and a bush-fire rating of fair or lower![]()
cavemanoc said:actually it was the 1710 I was looking at - had a good giggle when 'steve' told me that the battery would last between 5 and 6 hours![]()
Any idea what an accurate figure is for them with the 7950's both high and low power usage?
cavemanoc said:Awesome - would appreciate that - looking at the reviews (once I'd wiped the drool from my keyboard) they reconned about 2hrs with the screen at 6/7 brightness and wifi on full so looks pretty good - love to know how long it lasts in Oblivion!![]()
InwardSinging said:I picked up my 1710 with 7950gtx yesterday mate, i can do a gaming test tomorrow and tell you how long it lasts, ive not ran it off the battery yet.
Edit : if i pull the power lead out and keep full settings on the pc, it says 2 hours 40 mins.
Fujitsu-Siemens have a Core 2 Duo laptop (AMILO Xi 1554) with a Mobility X1900 (RV570) which should give a mobile 7950GTX a run for its money while offering better filtering quality, at least until mobile G8x and R6xx variants appear.
Cheers,
BrynS
GingaNinja said:I thought long and hard about the m1710. Looks like a great machine, and I was offered one (sales rep over the phone) for £1200 (C2D 7200, 7950GTX, 2GB, Vista, etc.). I'd want to keep it for at least 2 years. It was a hard decision, but in the end I just felt it was too much money for a machine that is already, to an extent, out of date interms of its DX9 GPU. I expect there will be a DX10 part available before too much longer but it won't be top of the range. It'll prolly be 2008 before any DX10 mobile parts with any oomph become available.
Ginga
nintenjo said:For that price i would have had itcan you get me the same offer please..
InwardSinging said:I got £600 off mine after 3 days haggling, paid just under £1800 for it with the gen2 clear cover, bluetooth, 100gb 7200 HD, 2gb ram, 2.33, 7950gtx, xps backpack, 2 year warranty.
nintenjo said:Well thats a closer price to what i had seen.. Although i dont actually want a dell, im planning to go with another competitor, but probably cant post on here.
Is a: T7400 2.16ghz, 2 gig RAM, 7950GTX 120Gig HDD for £1500 all inc.. So probably be my purchase. As much as i like dell i hate there Laptop cases.