Why limit yourself to BeOS. Maybe we can talk about the AmigaOS and how it blew everything out of the water when it debuted, and that nobody uses it and so it lies defunct.
Alternatively, no one gives a crap except folks who are still stuck in the past.
It’s the same with everything, in truth it does not matter what OS you use, and people who try to force what they use on other people… really need to shut the fuck up and get on with their own lives.
It’s funny how that laptop totally outclasses my PC. My Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU feels so outdated now in comparison.
I’d quite like to see upgradeable graphics chips for laptops. It would be possible to create a socket based system (where the monitor’s inputs and motherboards interface meet) however it would probably result in reduced laptop sales… therefore will never happen. 
What a beast! That thing will be undoubtedly be killer of battery life.
My guess: 1 hour battery life.
It would work well as a portable desktop replacement. Thanks for posting.
Most laptops don’t really have a great deal more than 1 hour battery life anyway. Any gaming laptop will be a beast for power.
Well, depends on the battery and the laptop really.
I get 4 hours on mine - although I believe there is an extended battery available which offers 8 hours and can also take an additional battery in the DVD drive bay.
Whoa, make / model?
I use an Inspiron E1705.
WUXGA screen makes everything all nice and sharp.
And it plays SSF really well :3
Do you play many PC games these days? Would you miss them if you couldn’t?
If you can handle it, I’d say make the switch to a MacBook Pro, and be sure to pick up a DS if you haven’t already.
I don’t play as many PC games as I used to, but it’s nice to have a PC capable of playing high end games there for when I feel like it. Would I miss it significantly though? That’s a very good question.
I gave my gaming desktop PC to my brother, spent a long long time deciding between laptops and it ultimately came down to one thing: do I want to still play PC games or not. If I didn’t I could save a heck of a lot or get one of those macbooks I’d been hearing so much about (I’d never used OSX).
After months of research (I am really really indecisive about these things) i decided against a gaming laptop because of the added cost and the inability to upgrade the graphics card without a lot of bother. From the various opinions and reviews I gathered, laptops just aren’t ready for new games yet, and they’ll never be able to keep up even for a little while with ‘the cutting edge’. I have a friend with about the highest spec you can imagine, it’s definitely a “gaming laptop”, and yet still games like unreal tournament 3 were that little bit jerky enough that would make me dissatisfied if I bought one. In the end i thought it might be good if I did other things than play games anyway so started looking into laptops with lame graphics cards.
A month or so after that it came down between a Dell cheapo laptop and a macbook. I eventually chose Macbook after researching OSX for a while. It was a risk, but it turned out well. I haven’t really looked back since, OSX is just great (I have been using windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP all my life) - as well as all the obvious things you’ll read about in reviews (expose is especially great and eliminated my need to ever get frustrated minizing/maximizing windows on the desktop) there’s just so many little things that make all the difference, that make it seem like Apple is just dying to make the experience that little bit easier and quicker for you. If i think back to all the stressful times i had with windows, I can’t think of any parallels with OSX. It’s nearly flawless, is what I’m saying.
If I was buying today I might’ve gone with an eeepc (eeepc.asus.com/global/) and a desktop combination (PC not mac). Basically what I worked out I wanted was a laptop that could do internet, music and note-taking in class and a desktop for the good stuff (gaming). There weren’t really any ultracheap laptops i could find at the time so I went with a macbook, but if the eeepc had been around I don’t know what I would’ve done. Having said that when I spilt beer in my macbook, completely breaking it, without insurance, less than a year after I had bought it, I did purchase another one soon after despite being on a relatively tight budget - so it’s safe to say I’m pretty satisfied with macbooks over PCs.
So for my own part I would say - if you are still into gaming, consider keeping, upgrading or replacing your desktop and look into the eeepc to see if it suits your needs. If not, definitely consider the macbook or macbook pro (the latter to fall back in just in case).
Hope this helps!
Thanks for the story/advice, Atolmazel. I considered getting an eee PC, but - bar getting an external harddrive - they don’t have enough harddisk space for all my data (I’d really want at least 200 GB). It would make an excellent internet/note taking device though.
Buying/upgrading my desktop PC may be an option at some stage, but probably not straight away.
Apple have just announced their new lineup of Macbooks and Macbook Pro’s and the specs are quite impressive (for Macs) - in theory, the Macbook Pro’s would run newer games reasonably well, as they have 512 MB graphics cards. At the moment I’m thinking of getting a 15" Dell laptop or 15" 512 MB Macbook Pro for gaming (and screen space), or an ordinary 13" Macbook if I decide not to worry about games and go for a cheaper, more portable device.
Despite the fact the macbook was just updated, there’s rumours flying around that Intel made them do it and they’re going to do a more major update in may june or july (maybe multitouch trackpad, new design, and the normal stuff like processor/graphical upgrades). Read about that here: macrumors.com/2008/02/27/nex … s-in-june/
There are people who endlessly put off buying in fear of them being upgraded just after they do (happened to me twice) so it might be just better to disregard that stuff unless an upgrade is almost certainly imminent. Good place to check for apple stuff is here: buyersguide.macrumors.com/
The classic Dell/Apple dilemma… good luck choosing the right one!
Thanks - I’m not needing it till later in the year, so I can probably hold off buying till June/July.
Okay, a question for anyone here with a laptop that is used for gaming. How do you get on with widescreen resolutions in games? I’ve noticed that a lot of games don’t have 16:10 resolutions that are any lower than 1680x1050, which is higher than the native resolution of most laptops. So, how do you get around this? Do you simply set the games to a 4:3 resolution and put up with the aspect ratio making the game look stretched (not ideal), or only buy high end laptops which support 1650x1050 and 1920x1200?
i have a high end laptop that i play my games on… but have ran the 4:3 on it before, and it doesnt make much of a differance to me, when your running around gunning aliens you dont really have time to notice if they a little wider.