g71 info?

what is the g71's color? the cnet pic shows full black but others show dashes of red. do you think the g71 is a good buy? Will it be futureproof (for DirectX11)?

 

I know your new...
But please use search next time (or at least go a page or 2 back):
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=393735&page=143
Posting your question in that thread would give you almost immediate answers.

To answer your questions though:
The G71GX- RX05 is black all around with 3 long blue lights on the top cover and 2 small blue lights in the front of the laptop (going to your local Best Buy, you could see it yourself). The G51VX-RX05 (15" 2.0Ghz Dual Core) and the G71GX-RX05 (17" 2.53 GHZ Dual Core) are both THE BEST laptops you can buy at a local store, especially for the price, the tech in it is fantastic and you are literally getting the laptop for an extremely good deal.

If you looked at the specs of the laptop, you would see it's specs are pretty high with a 260m GTX and 6GB of DDR2 inside, plus the purchase of the G71GX-RX05 includes a Windows 7 FREE upgrade voucher/coupon in the box, so when October rolls around you can get Windows 7 (which also gives you DX11) for FREE.

You can also upgrade the laptop pretty well, (if you wait for the warranty to go out or not), Forge popped a x9100 in his G51VX-RX05 and said he is flying through benchmarks. You can also pop in 12GB of DDR2 in this beast or a bigger/better hard drive. So for the G71GX-RX05, for what you are getting and what you can do for the future, you are getting the G71GX-RX05 for a steal!

 

Having DX11 won't matter since the GTX260 is a DX10 card. You can't make a DX10 card run DX11.

If you want a DX11 card, wait until DX11 comes out.

 

sure you can. they can make drivers for the 260 that support DX11.

 

But the CPU would be taxed in order to run the effects, at least I thought.

DX11 cards have hardware differences from DX10 cards. DX11 allows the GPU to do more in terms of calculations.

Unless what I've read is completely wrong. But, hey, that's happened.

 

You can't. To upgrade to DX11 you need a videocard that supports it hardware wise not software wise.

 

can you upgrade the video card in the g71 somehow?

 

You can't right now and even if new GPUs come out that can work in the G71 you shouldn't due to thermal issues.

DX10 have barely been used. DX11 will remain inconsequential for at least 3-4 years after which it would be time for you to upgrade anyways. Even if DX11 is awesome and widely implemented, DX10 support will definitely last for at least 5 years I would think.

 

I agree on this, Nvidia allowed some of it's 7 and 8 series cards support DX10 via a driver upgrade. Nvidia's 7 and 8 cards were DX9 compatible cards, a driver upgrade allowed DX10. Same can and WILL happen to the 200 series, a driver upgrade will allow the card to support DX11 most definitely...

 

It can't support something it isn't built for.

It's not just a change in software, it's also a change in hardware.

 

As I mentioned before, Nvidia's 7 and 8 series were DX9 cards and a driver upgrade allowed them to use DX10. It doesn't matter if the hardware wasn't made specifically for the new DX11, if the hardware is able to support the upgrade, all that will be needed to do is do a driver upgrade. People thought you HAD to have a Physx card in order to have it's physics software to work. Well... Nvidia found a way to make it work without the additional hardware, you just had to have an up to date card.

To reiterate, it doesn't matter how much you don't want DX11 to be supported on the 200 series, if Nvidia says it can be done via a driver upgrate, you can't do a thing about it unless you just don't download the update. Not everything has to have new hardware for certain things to work. People oohed and awed about DX10 and you needing new hardware for it and Nvida proved people wrong (7 and 8 series) and DX10 still hasn't shown it's worth yet, what makes people think DX11 is worth anything...

Anyway, who the hell cares about DX11, DX10 isn't hardly used rght now and not to it's highest ability either. I could care less if for some odd reason that the 200 series some how doesn't support DX11. What makes matter even worse is that people have decided to spin this thread entirely off-topic...
That's why for my first post I provided a link to the G71 thread...