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    HP Gets Core 2 Duo!!!

    Discussion in 'HP' started by digitaltrav, Aug 30, 2006.

  1. digitaltrav

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  2. JM

    JM Mr. Misanthrope NBR Reviewer

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    Woot!

    Now, if I only had money to get the dv9000t...

    :p
     
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    About time. :)
     
    Crispy1805, Aug 30, 2006
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    And Media Center is now an option. I wonder if CNet will revise their review now.
     
    Apathosaurus, Aug 30, 2006
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    I was waiting for this notebook and hoped that they would've put a good video card on it with 256mb of discrete memory but they let me down. An Nvidia 7400 with 128mb + 128mb is not good enough. Oh well, guess I gotta start looking at other notebooks.
     
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    Doesn't look like any major manufacturer is going to be brave enough to put a x1600/7600 level card in their 15.4" after they have seen the crazy backlash from the Acer and Macbook Pro models with them in it. Sure people seem to have good results from the whitebooks like compal and asus but even the alienware's are catching some "heat" (hehe) for their cooling design on the M5550.

    I don't blame HP/Dell. Those cards just generate too much heat for the 15.4" form factor. I would've however liked to see the 256mb 7400 put in this machine.
     
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    ^They should they kept put it as a disadvantage and that's gone right now. Also the matte screen rocks!

    replying to fieldyflea
     
    superwizard, Aug 30, 2006
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    Um HP has the NC8430 with an x1600 in it. And its 15.4"
     
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    True, but it's a little out of my price range, I was hoping to spend no more than 1200 and the nc8430 model I want is around 1600.
     
    fieldyflea, Aug 30, 2006
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    I'm kinda dissapointed in the dv9000t. It looks fantastic but the only GPU options are a 256 mb geforce go 7600 or a 512 mb geforce go 7600. The extra 256mb video ram will cost $125 more. Why won't hp give the option of a better GPU?
     
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