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Qosmio : X305

It's not bad. Color scheme might not be for everyone. Certainly looks better than the XPS M1730 though 😛

Anyone know if the 9800m GTX was anything more than a dye shrink?
 
Well i have HEARD that 9800MGTX will have 112 SP which will perform a little better than 8800MGTX but again i have heard it

also M1730 isnt that bad, i began to search for it and i find it pretty good too, the smoke grey and red versions are very nice IMO and the LIGHTFX makes it better, overall i like it 😀
 
I have mixed feelings: one one hand, new technology is almost always at least a little exciting, but on the other hand, I'm somewhat less enamored where pushing the envelope in mobile performance always makes "mobile performance" mutually exclusive-- that I don't think we've seen the breakthrough in graphics processors that we've seen in main processors, a la the Pentium M (do more with less) and its derivatives. Although, Nvidia being able to clock they're SPs asychronously, is a step in the right direction.

I guess hose thoughts bring up another question: Does it seem, that most of the market movement (corporate purchases excluded) are driving at the extremes of the spectrum: one end being the gaming / high-performance (like this Qosimo, the XPS, OCZs first offering) and the other end being the ultra portable / mobile appliance (Eee PC, WIND, U110, MacBook Air)?
 
Crap. I'm going to reply to my own post.

I think that one mitigating factor, where we can have our cake and eat it too, could be found in those external video solutions.
 
But if it happens like the desktop models then the 9800MGTX may just be a refresh and nothing more