The infamous ATI issue - again.... 2004-09-03 - By Hajo ten Thije
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Hi Christian,
Dell M60 is definitely what you're looking for. If you don't need the
fastest cpu, select the FX 700 Go, the 1680x1050 screen, 80GB HD and 1
GB RAM (no WLan and such) it's affordable. Ours were about � 2000,- and
they're worth every cent.
And: they're silent!
my2cent
Hajo
Christian Rittener wrote:
> How noisy is it? I'm selling my P4 laptop because I'm sick of those
> fans (I get enough already from a dual Xeon workstation), and its
> "main RAM" ATI graphics scheme won't run XSI.
> Any comments on XSI performance AND noise on middle-of-the-road
> Pentium M and AMD laptops are welcome... the Dell M60 seems great, but
> it's a bit pricey. Acer?
>
> Christian
>
>
> Alan Jones wrote:
>
>> I can really recommend the toshiba satellite 5220. It runs XSI
>> beautifully - (GeForceFX Go5600) hopefully they have one with a
>> beefier CPU by now - this one's a bit over a year old and only has a
>> 2.4ghz P4. Also knock the RAM up to 1gig - I've been too cheap to so
>> far.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alan.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:59:04 +0300, Dan Yargici <dan@(protected)>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, please do, that would be great.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> DAN
>>>
>>> -- -- Original Message -- --
>>> From: "Thomas Shaw" <shawthomas@(protected)>
>>> To: <XSI@(protected)>
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:30 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [OT] The infamous ATI issue - again....
>>>
>>>
>>>> I ordered a Dell Inspiron notebook yesterday with an Radeon Mobility
>>>> 9700 on it. While I didn't get it with the intent of running XSI, I
>>>> can
>>>> check it out and let you know how it performs...
>>>>
>>>> Ing. Marek Mihok wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Dan,
>>>>>
>>>>> I never had any problem with ATI at all !!
>>>>> I am using now 9600 256mb board....working with XSI and WindowsXP
>>>>> without any problem...
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't tell you about mobility radeons, I do not have a notebook
>>>>>
>>>>> Marek
>>>>>
>>>>> -- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
>>>>> Ing. Marek Mihok - ANIMAX 3D
>>>>> Juzna Trieda 9
>>>>> 040 01 Kosice
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>>>>> +00421 905 316 504
>>>>> animax3d@(protected)
>>>>>
>>>>> -- --Original Message-- --
>>>>> *From:* owner-xsi@(protected)
>>>>> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]*On Behalf Of *Dan Yargici
>>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:04 PM
>>>>> *To:* XSI@(protected)
>>>>> *Subject:* [OT] The infamous ATI issue - again....
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry to be a bore and bring this up again, but my searching turns
>>>>> up a mountain of old/contradictory results...
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, once and for all:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Are the low-end ATI cards still considered unusable/crappy? (my
>>>>> interest here lies more with the mobility radeons)
>>>>> 2. Is this general crappiness down to Softimage or ATI?
>>>>> 3. Will they ever be less crappy? When (if?) HL2 comes out, will
>>>>> this not mean, as everyone has predicted, that there'll be scores
>>>>> of disgruntled ATI users unless this is addressed?
>>>>>
>>>>> Basically, I'm on the laptop hunt again, and I've found hundreds
>>>>> of laptops that are perfect in every way, except they use ATI and
>>>>> not Nvidia. Compared to the 3 or so I've found that have the same
>>>>> spec with Nvidia cards. All 3 of these, without exception, carry
>>>>> a huge jump in price.
>>>>>
>>>>> This situation would be much better if manufacturers weren't so
>>>>> tight with their screen resolutions however....
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your patience. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> DAN
>>>>
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Dipl.Ind.-Des. Hajo ten Thije, MA <http://www.entec.de> ENTEC
ENTEC - Gesellschaft fuer interaktive 3D - Visualisierung mbH
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