8800m to be released soon for Dell XPS1730

PC's and PC gaming in particular will *ALWAYS* be around, because it is is cutting edge. That's what sets the bar. If PC's didn't advance, I know we wouldn't have the marvelous boxes today we call XBox 360 and PS3.

I read an article recently (where, hell I can't remember, heck I can't even remember what I ate for lunch today) and had lots of good stuff to say about PC gaming. Why develop hardware and software, games in particular, for PC's? Because those that spend the money for cutting edge are frequently those with the know how of PC's and the go-to person for the layman.

I'm an average tech geek, but at work to most, I'm the king of tech geeks. I can't say how many desktop gaming PC's I've configured for people. Did they all have 8800 GTX's in SLI? Absolutely not. But they did have the best bang for the buck hardware. Why? Because I waste more money on PC's than I probably should. It's interesting to me and it is my hobby.

On another note, I do hope combat flight sims do come back, because that was my mainstay for over 15 years. I still play Falcon 4 (Allied Force mind you) and IL-2, both religously, to this day.

 

YES! OH GOD YES! We need more flight combat sims!

 

is there any actual confirmed news regarding the 8800m? it all seems to be hearsay, with reports also saying that the m1730 would have dual SLI 8700gt. i also read that the m1730 was due out on the 27th august which clearly isnt true. argh! all this talk is annoying as i was planning on buying a laptop soon, and the 8700/7950 dilemma was hard enough

 

Wow, sounds like something I want lol. Dual 8700Gt's

 

I'm guessing the date is somewhere in the 3rd week of September. Registered who is a member on these boards said that people who worked for companies with some kind of Dell partnership or something like that could order it the 27th but private homes wait till third week of September and they ship out sometime in October.

 

Hi!

Some more info regarding 1730. The M1730 should be up on Dells site last week of september in Europe. It is going to be launched in USA before that. I don't know when. As i said before shipment is still scheduled to week 44 in Europe, not the US. That is again a little earlier.

Regarding the graphics.
Dual 256MB 8700GT, Yes
Dual 512MB 8700GT, Very likely.

What does all gaming freaks want that very few today can offer. Look at the pictures carefully again.

 

So, no 8800?

 

legit?

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39029450,49292532,00.htm

 

Holee sheet!

 

Maaaannnn Yessssssss I hope to see some combat flight sims like before. Do anyone here remember the USAF? This is the most advanced , realistic and exciting combat sims I've played.

 

I hope so... That would be a really nice alternative...

I'm also looking forward to Alienware response...

 

http://www.engadget.com/ september 21st. look out!

 

Whoa that Toshiba is looking beastly. I really don't want the HD-DVD drive though. I'm a DVD or Blu-Ray guy that drive is probably adding to the cost of the machine. Blu-Ray seems to be on its way to a hard fought victory so the drive will be useless when all of my movies will be Blu-Ray. I'm already building up a collection now.

 

This is in response to this and other posts around this.

I've also noticed the programming on games, which hasn't been too great. Another thing is that gameplay is turning ****ty for PC games. All people want is graphics. Let's take a look at Crysis. If it had only DX8 graphics, something like Painkiller graphics, would it still be fun? Or let's take an example such as CSS. More people play CS1.6, because gameplay is good, and they don't care about graphics.

I don't get what the big deal is about graphics. I want gameplay


That's just a side-note, not really related to anything, but I felt like saying it.

 

Holy ****! That Toshiba is perfect. I don't need 1080p on a 17" screen, just over HDMI.

As far as BluRay winning, I think it's a little early to say anyone's winning. Paramount pulled out of BluRay all together and the only reason there are more BluRay drives in homes is the PS3. I have both the 360 HD-DVD drive and the PS3's Blu-Ray at home and, for strictly movie quality, they're indistinguishable. Standalone players... HD-DVD is clearly cheaper for the same movie quality. I've found that HD-DVD seems to have a lot more movies that I, personally, would actually want to buy and not just rent. Not sure why that is. Blu-Ray discs hold more storage space for data so it has it's benefits once recorder drives are realistically priced.

So, to bring it back on topic... having an HD-DVD drive with me at all times will be awesome. Can take it over to friends/family's houses with HD sets and watch my HD-DVDs there.

 

So um, how about that 8800m being released soon.. Yeahhh more on that. =]
I can't wait..I'm having Nerdgasms..

 

HD-DVD I doubt has more movies, if so Blu-Ray is still selling more movies either 3:1 or 2:1. Up to August 2 the only Paramount movie in the top 20 is Babel on Blu-Ray. Universal isn't even the top 20, either way this machine is a beast.

 

the toshiba x200 has only 1 model currently available, 2x hard drives (no Raid0 BOO!) so the 320gb is 2x160gb 5400rpm drives, single graphics card, and from the stuff they have crammed in I dont think there is room for SLI version

I hope I am wrong because that means, that many other manufacturers are going to do SLI machine, and that CLEVO D900 thingie that had 3 hard drives and two graphics cards can be brought into DX10 Heaven

 

I was told by a Tech that works at Dell, that the XPS1730 will be out in the third week of September as well. But not to count on the shipping dates as there could be some delays. Go figure!

 

From Engadget: XPS 1730

* Intel Core 2 Duo up to 2.6GHz (X7800, 4MB cache)
* Up to 4GB DDR2 667 RAM, Intel PM965 chipset
* 17-inch WUXGA TrueLife (1920x1200)
* Single or SLI 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8700M GT
* Regular and SSD drive options
* Blu-ray drive
* (6) USB 2.0, 1394, DVI out, S-Video, gigabit Ethernet, IR
* 54mm ExpressCard (with travel remote)
* 802.11a/b/g/n, 3G WWAN, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
* 10.6 pound starting weight, 2-inch thick chassis


If dell is deciding to just have the SLI 256 8700m gt, then they shud stick it.
thats not enough.....im tired of this crap.

i wanna see atleast a 256-bit memory interface damnit.

 

I agree that if Dell is going to put such a lame card in this new XPS1730, they should stick it up their "Wazoo" for the price they will be asking for the thing! That had better not be the top video card offered for that laptop or there will be very few buying it!!!