Laptop sexeh timeh

[Ash]

This is what you need, Subb:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8892825&st=7811&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1211587727985

Excellent laptop, but don't even think of installing hardware drivers that aren't signed by Microsoft.  Vista 64-bit will only allow digitally signed and approved drivers.

[Subb]

a tad too expensive, Tecknik

£492.63 is the standard Yotogi - but the processor is Intel T5750 Core 2 Duo Mobile 2MB Cache Dual Core Processor with a 2 x 2.0Ghz Processor speed. The HDD is also smaller (160GB SATA Hard Drive).

the maximum I can spend is roughly.... £600/$1100

[Tecknik]

This is what you need, Subb:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8892825&st=7811&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1211587727985

Excellent laptop, but don't even think of installing hardware drivers that aren't signed by Microsoft.  Vista 64-bit will only allow digitally signed and approved drivers.

I use Vista Ultimate x64 and was using unsigned drivers for my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum for a while.  Creative finally released official working drivers August 1st.

Oh, and unsigned nVidia beta drivers.

a tad too expensive, Tecknik

£492.63 is the standard Yotogi - but the processor is Intel T5750 Core 2 Duo Mobile 2MB Cache Dual Core Processor with a 2 x 2.0Ghz Processor speed. The HDD is also smaller (160GB SATA Hard Drive).

the maximum I can spend is roughly.... £600/$1100

How confident are you in building your own laptop?
http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/diy_notebooks/ocz_diy_15-gaming_notebook-small-intel-core-2_duo_platform

Install a Core 2 Duo, memory, hard drive, and operating system , and you're done.

Gateway also has a lower-model FX gaming laptop available for $850:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8907043&st=Gateway+FX&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1213046783376

A week ago it was at $750.

[Ash]

Hmm, I wonder if that's just true for your card or if they really made unsigned drivers available to the 64-bit?

[Subb]

I'm having XP on it. I have a OEM version of XP Pro Service Pack 2 so no vista for me atm.

[Subb]

I'm looking up components for that DIY kit - looks like it'll be more expensive than other gaming laptops out there.

[Tecknik]

The Gateway P-7811FX is on sale at Best Buy for the week.

$1250 + any $50 PC game free with purchase of the laptop.  So, in other words, $1200 for the laptop with a mandatory $50 game purchase. LOL.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8892825&productCategoryId=pcmcat150700050002&type=product&id=1211587727985

I want it!

[Subb]

I bought this one from NovaTech:

17" WXGA 1440 x 900 TFT Screen
Intel T8100 Core 2 Duo Mobile 3MB Cache Dual Core Processor (Pro version)
2 x 2.10GHz (Pro version)
2GB DDR2 667MHz Memory
200GB SATA Hard Drive (Pro version)
DVD/RW Multi Burner
56K Internal Modem
nVidia 8400M G Turbo Cache PCI Express Graphics

The "X60r".

[Tecknik]

Good stuff, Subbeh!  Enjoy it!

[Anamodiel]

I bought this one from NovaTech:

17" WXGA 1440 x 900 TFT Screen
Intel T8100 Core 2 Duo Mobile 3MB Cache Dual Core Processor (Pro version)
2 x 2.10GHz (Pro version)
2GB DDR2 667MHz Memory
200GB SATA Hard Drive (Pro version)
DVD/RW Multi Burner
56K Internal Modem
nVidia 8400M G Turbo Cache PCI Express Graphics

The "X60r".

Vista or XP?

[Subb]

No OS. I'm putting XP on it though. the GFX card does do DX10 so.... maybe I'll venture over to Vista in the far future.

[Pirus]

btw vista works fine with MXO I have been using it for a year.  There may be a glitch here and there with it but hell the whole MXO game is a GLITCH so no biggie.

[Tecknik]

btw vista works fine with MXO I have been using it for a year.  There may be a glitch here and there with it but hell the whole MXO game is a GLITCH so no biggie.

Same.

There is a shader issue that bugs the hell out of me.  My face always looks dark, regardless of lighting.

[Pirus]

Yeah I have something similar but if I ever got on XP the game really starts to f*ck up just ask broin about that.  Its more of a video card thing than anything else these new DX10 cards tend to have issues switching back and forth from xp and vista atleast on MXO.  On XP the system would run so slow inside of a building it could take 5 mins to run through one.  Yet, once your outside its as smooth as glass.  I'll gladly take the minor shader issue over that any day.

[Subb]

Subby's on his smexi new laptop