Forecast: Greater Efficiency
Though we don’t have a crystal ball handy, we’ll venture some careful predictions about the future.
Mobility is an increasingly important factor that will result in further development of notebooks and technology that is accessible to various user groups. This is of particular importance to developing countries, where reliable electrical grids and Internet technology are not yet available everywhere. Portable computers with wireless technology seem to be more attractive there than long cables and bulky desktop computers. That’s why we predict more efficient components, which in turn will result in greater performance and increased battery life. Diversification will enable users to easily obtain products suitable for them.
Business users can look forward to longer battery lives, and gamer notebooks will further close the gap in 3D performance that currently separates them from desktop systems. The size of notebook displays will also increase.
Provided that hardware performance continues to increase, notebooks may one day completely replace traditional desktop computers. Smaller devices with sophisticated technology will be available at lower prices—the Asus EEE PC is indicative of this trend. The smallest notebooks, by virtue of their modest dimensions, will be considered ideal for beginners, and will become constant companions for everyone. Bulky notebooks will soon be a thing of the past: the MacBook Air serves as a reference for a future class of devices.
The clunky midi-tower and its separate monitor that takes up a lot of space, looks unaesthetic, and is not mobile at all? Don’t worry—it won’t completely disappear from the picture. It will serve as a reference platform for the future development of notebooks, and also still be used where installed hardware needs to be easily accessible and systems need to be able to be upgraded. Using them as central media servers for a building is conceivable, as well as everywhere where more performance is needed than a future notebook can provide.
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Most notebooks I've seen won't let you eject the CD when it's turned off except using a paperclip in that tiny hole, which is something you can do on a desktop drive anyway.
8800GTS 320 seems an unusual choice...
This is obviously a newbie article. You could easily build a far superior machine than the one specced out here.
For example I have just bought a new budget gamer machine (own build)
680i SLI mobo
single 8800GT (for now)
2 GB of dominator xr2 1066 ddr2 (who needs 4 GB if you have no intention of running vista EVER)
Q6600 2.4GHz Quad intel (soon to be oc'd to ~3.2GHz)
funky case, extra large dia fans, 3rd party cooler, etc etc etc.
(will reuse old HDD's for the mo'. I had to get this past the wife so this concession was made)
Comes in at £445 or ~ $870 US
Being conservative and adding £60 to get a 500GB HDD that still is only ~$995 US
And this system will smack the quoted one around like a dirty Biatch in games productivity etc.
As mentioned the beauty of a desktop system is upgradability. For the $1800 US you could get dual 3870x2 in quad crossfire, multiple TB's HDD's etc.
This is article is for the Sucker Chump looking for new stuff that performs worse than cream of the last crop but for a higher price cause its new (the same people who buy new cars and sell them a year later to get a newer car, talk about throwing money away), and for advertising hard to shift stock, 8800GTS 320's anyone?
To the same extent, you can get a much better suited gaming laptop for the money. A 8800m gtx would be much better than the 9500m card they're using.
"If watching movies on the go is important to you, then a DVD-ROM drive and a sizable screen are musts" - Its 2008 now, do they actually make laptops without dvd drives? Apart from the macbook air, i think every new laptop has at least got a dvd drive.
I got an Asus Z7000 laptop with an ATI X700 128 meg video card and 1.5 GB ram and Pentium-M 1.7 GHz for £160 GBP with a years warranty! It has a 15.4 WXGA screen and quadruphonic sound. It didn't have a HDD or optical drive so I installed my own hdd. Unfortunately my DVDRW drive does not fit the ultrabay connection so I use my usb to ide adapter and psu so connect a desktop pc dvdrw drive via usb and the transfer rate is fast (usb 2.0) and the drive is seen in the cmos setup at bootup so excellent!
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Chris.
BARGAIN. where did you get that deal. I'd get me one.
Hi there!
I got it on ebay.co.uk and they only post to the UK but you could check. It was at the ebay.co.uk shop spiredream trading in Oxfordshire near Oxford.
Hope you can find it as they sell many units. Search for barebone or barebones.
Chris.