Still "top notch"

Hm, sometimes I wonder which notebook I'd buy next if my 6625WD won't do it anymore. It has it quirks, of course, most of it because of this quirky BIOS, but it is quite a powerhorse, great graphic card, and everything configured "to the max".
What was most important fo me was performance in every aspect and that it shouldn't weigh as much as its predecessor.
I'm very happy that the fan is silent most of the time, I'm happy about the clear high resolution display and the overall performance.

The next step would be a notebook with 8 or 16GB (instead of 4) and a 64 Bit Windows 7, A high quality SSD harddisk with 128 or 256K and one of the most up-do-date Intel processor. But I don't see any notebook with this features yet with a reasonable price.

When I purchased my Zepto notebook, almost no other manufacturer offered the T9300.

I think it is still "top notch", even up to now. And I'm really looking forward to see the next mobile processors from Intel...
And I think the development will concentrate more on efficiency than on raw power: Less heat development, longer battery life, etc.

 

Well, I agree with you, your laptop still is quite "top notch". Yes, there are new Quadcore CPUs and whatnot on the horizon but still, the T9300 is pretty good. Also, don't let the technological progress get to your head, every computer is outdated just a few months after purchase, that's just how it goes.
Nonetheless, speaking of your laptops specifications, I don't see why you are thinking about a new model already. As long as you don't expect your machine to break soon because of some issue, you should be fine with this machine for quite some time for whatever you are doing with it.

Oh, and SSDs are relatively new and therefore super-expensive. You'll have to give them some time (years?) until they get affordable in the sizes you mentioned. Also, RAM capacities of 8 or 16 GB are not common just yet, you may find them in some workstation laptops, but the average consumer doesn't need as much RAM. Those who really need that much RAM would rather buy a desktop machine which is far cheaper anyway.

 

Most of the time I really am fine with it, the only thing that really consumes just every ressouce are: Adobe products. And I don't use just one of them, but sometimes 4 or ever 5 simultaneously:
InDesign + Photoshop + Illustrator when working on print. And most of the time, also Flash is running. In the background a video of the latest Tonite Show with Conan o Brien, the jEdit text editor, somtimes even a whole apache Server... The way I work sometimes demands all products running at the same time. This is the downside (and also upside) of being a freelancer in the fields of programming and design...
So for me it would be perfectly sufficiant to have more RAM. because what consumes most time on this laptop is swapping - except when rendering, but then I outsource longer and intensive renderings to my desktop computer which is an overclocked quadcore I normally use for music. CPU and Graphics has never been a problem on this machine.

I wonder how much RAM will fit in the 6625WD. Having 8 or 16 Bit would enhance the possibilities very much.

 

Wow, your behavior sounds virtually identical to mine I also have Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Winamp and Firefox with the latest episode of The Colbert Report running simultaneously. I do notice a performance hit when I run them all at once, but it's still usable enough. I have a P8600 (2,4 Ghz), 4GB of RAM but Vista 32-bit (= just 3 GB of RAM) and as soon as I have Windows 7 64-bit, I can use all of my 4GB of RAM. As far as I know, your and my laptop have two RAM slots which means a maximum of 16GB as of today (16GB RAM modules have not been made yet), but the prices are ridiculous. 8GB are in the 230+x€ price range.

 

From what I've read the 6625WD will not boot with more than 4GB of RAM, so 4GB seems to be it's max capacity.