How's this for a gaming laptop?

[symbi0nt]

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi1546

That's roughly $1,700.

What do you think?
Main purposes will be neverwinter nights 2, guild wars, wow, mp3 playing, photoshop, web design, possibly some java & c if I get caught without my desktop.

 

[killernotebooks]

Nice, could use a higher res screen though, like SXGA

 

[symbi0nt]

What does that mean?

Well, obviously I googled it - i'm not that useless.
Does it mean I can't reach 1240x1024?

 

[symbi0nt]

Nevermind, found out.
WXGA+ is what it has.
(1440x900)


Hmm.. i'm not sure how I feel about that.
What do you think? Still suitable for gaming?

I guess it's the screen that had cutbacks to allow the x1800 to fit into my price range.

 

[symbi0nt]

According to the Fujitsu-Siemens data sheet..
http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/Resources/151/948767187.pdf

AMILO Xi 1546: 17.0” LCD WXGA+ CrystalView
Resolution (physic.): 1440x900


WXGA+..
roughly the same amount of pixels as SXGA.


Oh, and looking at that datasheet.
Upgradability! C2D and Vista ready.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Since I don't know your price range. For $1700 USD that's a good laptop for gaming. Unless you have more $$$$$ 1 gig more ram. Plus 7900GT Would be alot better.

 

[HardWareBoss]

Plus upgrade to Core2.

 

[symbi0nt]

My price range is £900-1000
I haven't found any 7900 systems for that price, and only one x1800 system. [This one]

I think there is the option of me shoving some more ram and a C2D cpu into it in a few years time when the warranty is gone.

 

[symbi0nt]

http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/fujitsu_siemens-amilo_xi_1546_013-laptop-1-n2.htm

That's quite tempting though..
Not sure if my wallet would expand that far, but the extra MHz on the CPU & RAID is nice.


$1700 for a 1.86GHz Core Duo, 1gb of DDR2-533 RAM, X1800 GPU on a 1440x900 WXGA+ screen ain't too shabby now, is it?