ATI 4870 laptop

So it seems to me that ati mobility 4870 is the best mobile gpu, and will be for the next half a year at least. Is it available in any notebooks besides the overweight asus w90?

 

the ATI 4850 is in the MSI GT725

and the rest....

here are my current "bang for the buck" high-end gaming notebook picks....
(with 256-bit memory interface videocards)

For 17"+
*($1500 budget and below)*
- Sager NP5793 (Clevo M570RU) .... its hot right now since Sager is making it fully loaded with 9800M GTS and even Blu-Ray drive to liquidate its stock so that they can focus on the new (but slightly more expensive) NP5797.... Clevo M570TU/ETU.
- Gateway P FX with 9800M GTS is another good choice but does not have better build quality and cooling than the Clevo M570RU.
- MSI GT725 .... fully loaded 17" with ATI HD 4850
*($1600 to $2000)*
- Clevo M570ETU (aka. Sager NP5797) .... new model with Montevina, quad-core and choice of 9800M GTS/GT/GTX or Quadro 2700M
- Arima W840 DI (aka. OCZ Whitebook, Alîenware m17, etc...) .... new 17" dual ATI 3870, quad-core and dual HDD
*($2000+ budget)*
- ASUS W90Vp .... 18.4" fully loaded with ATI HD 4870 X2 .... processor could be better
- Clevo D901C (aka. Sager NP9262) .... 17" with single/dual 9800M GTS/GT/GTX or Quadro 2700M/3700M, uses desktop quad-core CPUs, three internal HDDs, and the best notebook cooling design to date.


For 15"
*(sub-$1400 budget)*
- ASUS G50VT .... 15.6" with 9800M GS (budget high-end card)
- MSI GT627 .... 15.4" with 9800M GS (budget high-end card)
- Toshîba F55 .... 15.4" with 9700M GTS (still considered high end on the bottom rung of the ladder of high-end cards)
..... and the rest of the mid-range notebooks with Nvidia 9600M/9650M, ATI 3600/3650, etc..
*($1400+ budget)*
- Clevo M860TU (aka. Sager NP8660) .... new 15.4" with Montevina platform ... quad-core support... and 9800M GTS/GT or Quadro 2700M

Alîenware (except for M17 which is re-branded Arima) and .Dell does not make the list (mainly for the high-end systems), they are quite outdated and configurations are usually overpriced.

This is a bang for the buck list... if you want to pay for aesthetics and lights, then look elsewhere.

* please read the Clevo Guide for further information about Clevo and their international vendors.

 

The alienware M17 is getting it.

the 4870 is also coming to the....never mind Wait and see this is gonna be a fun summer

 

Why do something like that?

 

Yeah really...I wanna know

 

Good question.

I'm hoping that by summertime Lenovo will roll out some new AIT 4000 series GPU powered notebooks with Windows 7.

 

why not whats wrong with waiting till summer

 

i guess one disadvantage of this card is lack of physx.
how big of a factor is this in games?
a reason to go with nvidia?

 

LOL

PhysX is 100% marketing hype and has never had any benefit in gaming.

 

but it could bump your 3dmark vantage cpu score by 300% , how cool is that!

 

LOL

Nothing, but lokos like your in the know, and others want some info

You seem cold to them

And it does look to be an interesting summer

 

For now maybe, nvidia is working on it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_B3_upOvmc

 

Right now, the point is that this is all only eye candy, it doesn't effect the game at all, unlike HL2's physics system which had a huge impact on gameplay, as well as crysis' physics which looked stunning as well as having another huge impact on the way you'll play the game. PhysX is an underperforming and outdated physics system. Most of what is done on PhysX currently can be done using Havok on CPU and run several times better. And with both AMD, and Intel adopting hardware rendering for Havok. PhysX is already dead before it began. If both large name CPU makers are going to adopt hardware physics, and PhysX is a closed standard on nVidia only GPU's, physX CAN'T win unless ATI/AMD adopts it, which they are refusing to do right now.

 

PhysX is a marketing hype. There was a review on Mirror's Edge, which uses PhysX. The test showed that on a desktop GeForce 9800 GTX+, enabling PhysX decreased performance by 40%.