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Have i bought this laptop too late?

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Stevo790, Aug 5, 2007.

Stevo790 Notebook Enthusiast

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I've ordered a Dell XPS M1710 notebook with the following specs:

Intel® Core 2 Duo T7400 Processor (2.16GHz,667MHz,4MB L2 cache)

2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x1024]

160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive

512MB DDR3 nVidia® GeForce Go 7950 GTX graphics card

Vista Installed

What i did not realise at the time of order is that this notebook is over a year and three months old and that i may now miss out on new XPS versions coming out soon. Will i get good gaming out of this for at least a couple of years?

Thanks

Stevo790, Aug 5, 2007

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knightingmagic Notebook Deity

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It'll run the latest games fine. The only you thing you have to worry about is when games come out only in DX10 mode.

knightingmagic, Aug 5, 2007

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Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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DX10 isn't going to be an requirement for games for some time. Vendors will have a DX9 rendering mode as well.

Greg, Aug 5, 2007

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ya it should be fine the new xps will have santa rosa and it has the new nVidia graphics card but that about it you should be fine

laptopboss1, Aug 5, 2007

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