So i am looking to buy a good gaming laptop in the very near future and currently am trying to decide between two different options. I have consulted my friends but I am still undecided.
The 1st one is a custom XPS from Dell and the 2nd is a Satellite from Toshiba. I will post the stats on them below in just a second but from what i have heard there are mainly just a few questions.
I am getting this laptop for two reasons:
1) I am going to college and staying in a dorm. My college requires that I have a laptop; most of the time it will be sitting at my desk, I don't expect to move it around a lot.
2) Gaming. Specifically, I want to be able to run Age of Conan proficiently.
Essentially this question is more about the cases and the power supplies than the components. Are the power supplies adequate? Which has a better cooling solution? Which will run games, particularly dx10 games, better? The motherboard and processor from my last desktop, from iBuyPower, melted because the power supply and cooling solutions were not adequate.
XPS M1730
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)
Operating System:
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
LCD Panel:
17 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA
Memory:
4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
Hard Drive:
Speed: 160GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) Free Fall Sensor
Video Card:
NVIDIA®GeForce®8700M GT graphics
Wireless Networking:
Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965a/g/n Mini Card
Primary Battery:
85 WHr Lithium Ion Battery (9-cell)
Sound Options:
High Definition Audio 2.0
Physics Game Accelerator:
AGEIA PhysX™ 100M Processor
Satellite X205
Operating System
•Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit version)
Processor and Chipset
Intel® Centrino® processor technology featuring:
•Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300
-2.40GHz, 3MB L2, 800MHz FSB
•Mobile Intel® PM965 Express Chipset
•Integrated Wi-Fi® compliant wireless LAN
-Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (802.11a/g/n)4
Memory
•Configured with 3072MB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM (both memory slots may be occupied). Maximum capacity 4096MB
Hard Disk Drive
•320GB using two Serial ATA hard disk drives;
-Primary+Secondary drive: 160GB (7200rpm) + 160GB(7200rpm)
Graphics
•PCI-Express™ x16 graphics subsystem, featuring:
-NVIDIA® SLI™ Dual GeForce® 8600M GT, 512MB GDDR3 discrete graphics memory, plus up to 255MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory using NVIDIA® TurboCache™ technology.
•Total Available Graphics memory 767MB
Sound
•4 Built-in harman/kardon® stereo speakers with 1 subwoofer
•Sound Volume Control Dial
•Built-in microphone
The 1st one is a custom XPS from Dell and the 2nd is a Satellite from Toshiba. I will post the stats on them below in just a second but from what i have heard there are mainly just a few questions.
I am getting this laptop for two reasons:
1) I am going to college and staying in a dorm. My college requires that I have a laptop; most of the time it will be sitting at my desk, I don't expect to move it around a lot.
2) Gaming. Specifically, I want to be able to run Age of Conan proficiently.
Essentially this question is more about the cases and the power supplies than the components. Are the power supplies adequate? Which has a better cooling solution? Which will run games, particularly dx10 games, better? The motherboard and processor from my last desktop, from iBuyPower, melted because the power supply and cooling solutions were not adequate.
XPS M1730
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 (2.5GHz/800Mhz FSB/6MB cache)
Operating System:
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
LCD Panel:
17 inch UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-screen WUXGA
Memory:
4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
Hard Drive:
Speed: 160GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) Free Fall Sensor
Video Card:
NVIDIA®GeForce®8700M GT graphics
Wireless Networking:
Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965a/g/n Mini Card
Primary Battery:
85 WHr Lithium Ion Battery (9-cell)
Sound Options:
High Definition Audio 2.0
Physics Game Accelerator:
AGEIA PhysX™ 100M Processor
Satellite X205
Operating System
•Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit version)
Processor and Chipset
Intel® Centrino® processor technology featuring:
•Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300
-2.40GHz, 3MB L2, 800MHz FSB
•Mobile Intel® PM965 Express Chipset
•Integrated Wi-Fi® compliant wireless LAN
-Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (802.11a/g/n)4
Memory
•Configured with 3072MB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM (both memory slots may be occupied). Maximum capacity 4096MB
Hard Disk Drive
•320GB using two Serial ATA hard disk drives;
-Primary+Secondary drive: 160GB (7200rpm) + 160GB(7200rpm)
Graphics
•PCI-Express™ x16 graphics subsystem, featuring:
-NVIDIA® SLI™ Dual GeForce® 8600M GT, 512MB GDDR3 discrete graphics memory, plus up to 255MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory using NVIDIA® TurboCache™ technology.
•Total Available Graphics memory 767MB
Sound
•4 Built-in harman/kardon® stereo speakers with 1 subwoofer
•Sound Volume Control Dial
•Built-in microphone
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