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[cdpage]

50-watt-hour lithium-ion lasts <b>4.5 hours</b>....not too bad.
1.1" (2.8 cm) thick
5.7 lbs. (2.6 kg) with battery and optical drive installed

Mobility Radeon 9700 too, so She can Still do her Dual Display setup!

Oh yea, she picked up a bluetooth wireless keyboard since the Laptop has a Bluetooth chip in it already.

So she has a full workstation to go no.

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[Crashman]

The IS7 support 6 hard drives, 4 IDE and 2 SATA. It also has firewire and the SATA drives can be used in RAID mode if desired.

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[endyen]

What type of interconnect are you using, and how good is it for gaming together?

 

[cdpage]

thanks! i'll have to keep that board in mind.

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[cdpage]

Not sure what connection she is useing...I'll have to lookin to that.

as for gaming, she has no Mac games at the moment, but wants to pick up Balders Gate to play with her brother.

I'll let you know how the gaming turns out.



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[trooper11]

well if your going to go dual and play games, i would lean more for the opterons then xeons any day

 

[JuntaJoe]

Maybe so, but I'm an Intel person. After all the years of AMD making processors that you could cook an egg on, I'm reluctant to use their stuff unless I've got a half dozen fans running full blast. Frankly, I don't want all that noise. Xeons have always treated me right. I still have one Pc with an old Xeon P2 that I bought in '97 that still works perfectly with thousands of days of operation with not one complaint to speak of. Maybe when AMD has a few more years under their belt making cool running processors then I'll give them another look.

 

[trooper11]

well of course you have your choice, but i wouldnt make such an uninformed statement like that as your reason for not using opterons. you cna look at any of the tech sites on the web and easily figure out alot has changed in the last 3 years. quiet and cool are key features of amd now, you want to talk heat, talk prescotts.

i know there are alot of intel users out there that say the same thing, that no matter what ppl say, intel is still better, but relaly its just avoiding the facts to make an excuse for your brand loyalty. ive used intel and amd system side by side for years, but this tiem i have opted to not get anything prescott related for now.

im just saying its time some of those ppl had a bit more of an open mind.

 

[cdpage]

I am an open minded guy now i think for all platforms,

Intel / AMD / MAC

We ended up with a Powerbook Laptop anyways 😛

Turns out the router that he was useing Just Crapped out!

<b>Any recomendations for a Router thats good for a PC and a MAC???</b>

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