IS the ATI Mobility RADEON X700 a good laptop gpu?

a review... Seems alright. desktop terms it's probably around a Radeon 9800 I guess, although I only skimmed that article...

You'd be able to play most newer games, but 512Mb of RAM would limit you a little there, plus you wouldn't be able to play at the native res of the screen for most of them, so it wouldn't look as good as it might otherwise. (wouldn't be too bad though I think).

Laptops and gaming don't really mix, IMO. But that just could be because my lappy has Ati Rage Mobility graphics, and barely runs freelancer .. But it runs nethack fine

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Here's a decent Sony Vaio from Best Buy. It has NVIDIA GeForce Go 6400 graphics with 128MB video memory. Go 6400 is at about the same performance level as the ATI X600. It's on sale for only $1099 right now:

Sony VAIO Notebook with Intel® Centrino™ Mobile Technology - White

You could also get a Dell 9300 with 256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800 and 17" UXGA screen for $1257 using coupon code G76?BXMPC5919D for $750 off a notebook of $1999 or more. These coupons expire fast though.

Go to this link and change the following:

Display to UXGA for $125
RAM to 1GB for $100
Hard Drive to 80GB for $29
CD drive to DVD burner for $75
Wireless card to Intel® PRO/Wireless 2915 for $30
Video card to Nvidia 6800 for $199

That puts the price to $2007 minus $750 coupon for $1257 total. You might not even got charged tax depending where you live.

Hello,

Visit abs, alienware, etc. Or try Newegg.com and choose the 6600 or higher GPU for your laptop.

Now lets not forget, the more advance the GPU is especially for gaming, the higher your laptop will cost (can gover $2200). Meaning you are less likely to find such in a typical in-store laptops.

The X700 is higher than the GF6600, and alienware is overpriced for what he's looking for.

X200M is NOT for gaming, it's for seeing what other people are playing on gaming laptops.

I also doubt the 128MB of dedicated memory, not that it would matter much. I'm almost certain that's a typo (but you'd have to check with HP to be sure) integrated almost always has a small dedicated number and then suplements the rest from system memory.

Excuse me but...

I belive it is not that clear that a mobile x700pro is better than a 6600go

http://www.mobilityguru.com/2005/1 [...] page8.html

1720 is a average lo score for your card. some go to 3000+ (as 6600go also)

So why are you saying that x700 is **far** better than a 6600 ?

that GPU could run HL2 on max resolution & max quality pretty smoothly with I think about 60 fps.

First you need to edit your link if you're trying to compare the MX700 to the GF6600GO, you just linked to the MX1600 review. And just to help you out X1600 =/= GF6600.

You're right it's not far better than the GF6600 GO, it's just better than the GF6600GO, the far was for the first two.

The vertex power alone is 2:1, and most GF6600s are clocked lower than the X700, though both are clocked wherever their notebook mfr decide to set them.

You find me a review that shows the GF6600GO ahead of the MRX700, then we'll talk further.

The regular WXGA display has a resolution of 1440 x 900. The UXGA has a resolution of 1920 x 1200 and also features a little brighter screen. I'd recommend not dropping it, although notebooks are designed to take a cetain amount of beating. Another idea would be to skip the tighter display and put the money into an extended warranty. Dell offers a couple of different warranty options that include a damaged LCD screen. The basic warranty doesn't cover that, so read up on them.

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Played with the X700 mobility for about a week and liked it. That said it was 128MB deceicated ram. I would hesitate a little to buy a 64mb version. It is conciderably better than the 9700pro mobility and it games just fine. You can't go wrong if you buy the dell they probably make the best overall laptop around the 9300 with a 6800go would be great. I have a buddy with the XPS Gen2 (basically the same as the 9300) and it games great. If you can afford the extra warrenty go for it, it is a complete package that covers acts of stupidity and lets face it that is a good thing most times.