Whats after the XPS 1710?

By the time I can comfortably afford the 1710, I am wondering if its considered old and something new and great is around the corner. I mean, its not a new laptop anymore though I know they upgraded it.

anyone know any info?

 

I don't think Dell has any plans for it. They probably will upgrade it to the Santa Rosa (Centrino Pro) package. I also heard something about an E1706, which may share the new 17" XPS chassis, as the current XPS M1710 and E1705 do. I am not sure, however.

 

Santa Rosa a great possibility(nearly assured), and maybe a Go version of 8800 (finger cross)

 

same here [ please please please ]

 

It will definately get somsort of Go 8800 card, but you have to think whether it will be in a newer 17" chassis. They may just decide to introduce a new 17" notebook before then, and then add the option of a Go 8800 in that notebook. We will just have to wait and see.

 

I'm sure the next XPS 17" will get Santa Rosa and a G81/G82 graphics card. In short, it will be nice... and expensive.

 

yea i hope they release a dx 10 card for the inspiron line too because their xps's are super expensive

 

Hopefully this time even more sleeker than the previous one. I prefer a dark metallic color than the light metallic grey. Then it ll look perfect... may the dark force be with you.

 

I hope so.

 

What is a "Go version of 8800"?

Is Santa Rosa the quad chip I keep hearing about?

sorry for my ignorance, just not as up on this stuff....

 

The XPS 1710 is awesome. why can't the M2010 have that vid card instead of X1800?

hope the 8800 go will be released (cross fingers)

 

The XPS 4250. The only notebook with a 42.5" inch screen. Come with a free Ford Pinto so you can carry it around.

 

nVidia names their mobile GPUs with "Go" prefix, like Geforce Go 6800 , Go 7900 etc.. What lunateck meant was the mobile counterpart of the latest DX 10 desktop GPU 8800. However still there are no plans by nVidia to release a Go 8800 processor. Right now only speculated mobile processors for 2007 are 8600 and 8500(8400??)

Santa Rosa is the upcoming Intel mobile platform. It is centered around the second generation Core 2 (Dual Core) processor
Specs according to Wikipedia :
* second generation Intel Core 2 processor (code named Merom) that uses Socket P
* 800 MT/s front side bus with Dynamic Front Side Bus Switching to save power during low utilization
* Intel Mobile 965 Express chipset (code named Crestline) with Intel's GMA X3000 graphics technology
* Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n mini-PCIe Wi-Fi adapter (code named Kedron)
* NAND flash-memory caching (code-named Robson)
* WWAN Internet access via HSDPA codeveloped with Nokia (code-named Windigo)
* EFI, a successor to BIOS
* Intel Dynamic Acceleration (IDA), better Windows Vista Aero support

 

Quad Core has just made it to the desktop market. Even the desktop version isn't native Quad Core as it is simply two Conroe cores attached together. Native Quad Core is when all four cores are placed within one core, similar to what AMD plans. A Quad Core in notebooks won't be around until the end of this year or start of the 2008. It is codenamed Gilo, and it should be multi-cored. Penryn will come out before then, and that is simply an updated version of Merom, which includes more L2 Cache and is built on a 45 nm process.