Should I buy, or wait?

Greetings,
This is a pretty straight forward question. I'm planning on purchasing a Compaq R3000Z, but is it worth it to wait and see if HP finally upgrades the GPU, or buy it now? Also, do you see HP upgrading to the 939-Socket CPUs anytime in the near future? Thanks in advance.


Scenerio B: I know that many of you say that the GPU cannot be swapped out, is this because the mobile GPUs aren't readily available or because the GPU is actually soldered on and/or custom designed for the board?

 

How patient are you? The R3000z is over 6 months old at this point so a product refresh is entirely possible but there is zero solid info about one. You'd think they'd build a thin-and-light with the new 90nm Athlon 64's, but that's thinking logically...

The GPU is soldered to the motherboard. Yes, we're all pissed at HP for their weak GPU choice.

I don't think there will be Socket 939 mobiles. Too bad, I'd like one too, but it'd make the motherboards a little bigger and that is a problem.

 

Well, considering that I am more than satisfied with everything but possibly the GPU, could someone tell me their honest opinion on gaming with my planned setup?

AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3700+ (2.40 GHz)

15.4" WXGA BrightView Widescreen(1280x800)

64MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) 4 440 Go +1394 & 5-in-1

1.0GB DDR SDRAM (2x512MB)

80 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive

8X DVD +/- RW/R & CD-RW Combo

54g(TM) Integ. Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN & Bluetooth

12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery

 

Take a look at the Acer lineup as they use the same vendor (Compal) for their laptop but most of the Acer line is already moved to MR9700 GPUs.

 

Do you know if it is possible to custom order an Acer notebook? I'm looking for AMD Athlon 64 only, but the Ferrari 3200 only has an Athlon64 2800+ processor.

 

Unfortunately Acer does not offer custom builds. but most of the setup is pretty good except for HDs, they tends to use 4200rpm drive mostly so you might need to budget in a 5400/7200 replaement.