Bought my first laptop

Well, I finally made the plunge and bought my first laptop. It is the following:

Dell 1520

Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache)
High Resolution, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch display (1680x1050)
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
Speed: 120GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
CD / DVD writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)
Integrated Sound Blaster® Audigy™HD Software Edition
Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Mini-card
85Whr Lithium Ion Battery (9 cell)

Currently we have a family desktop from ABS that was running the Athlon 64 3400+, 1 gig of ram, 160 gig hard drive and a Radeon 9800 Pro.....oh yeah and Windows XP Professional

So do you think there will be a decent jump in gaming performance between the two?

 

I think yes

 

absolutly....i have a 1.7 gig pent 4 and i think ANYTHING would be better...but yes everything will be better, and the graphics will be a big jump

 

WOW! I used to have almost the exact same spec'd out ABS-pc desktop as you did, except mine was a Radeon 9700 Pro

 

Graphics wise, in terms of gaming benchmark programs, you should see at least 2 times, or maybe even 3 times better graphics...

You will easily blow that desktop away

Now the problem will be if you're able to sit around and wait for it to ship!

 

Thanks for the positive feedback guys. I cannot tell you how excited I am for this thing to arrive........like you said, it will be hard to wait for it.

 

Have fun with your new notebook. I know I'll be excited with mine because I'm switching from a P4 with an obsolete integrated 82845G - so anything like core duo or nVidia gets me hyped about anything.

 

You are going to be FLOORED by the increase in gaming capability. The Radeon 9800 was certainly a classic, but the 8600m GT will increase performance at least 200% (if you decide to run at native res, higher if you run it lower). I haven't even mentioned that switching to a dual core will literally double your processor output.

I can't figure how much ram you got, I hope you got 2gb (it'll enhance your experience somewhat), although 1gb is fine.

 

I got 2 gigs for it. I know I play a lot of Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 and they take forever to load, and the frame rates aren't always that great so I'm really excited to see how nice I can get these games to look on the laptop. Unlike most people, I usually like to play the last generation of games while everybody else is on something new. You guys have me so excited hahaha.

 

I for one can tell you that with similar laptop to yours, check my sig, I can run Half-life 2 max setting 1680x1050 with absolute smoothness. The environment is so gorgeous and almost feel like playing a different game. Speaking upgrade from geforce 3 and athlon xp 1600 lol

 

fantastic!