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    Clevo, Clevo, Clevo... where art thou? Whilst HP and IBM drub us raw

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by roweathers, Aug 12, 2008.

  1. roweathers

    roweathers Notebook Consultant

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    You now doubt have seen or heard by now that HP and IBM both rolled out monster workstations during the past 24 hours.. I suspect that Dell is not far behind with some movement on the M6300. It is time from the home team to roll out some serious high-end Quadros in the 9262...Clevo has been angling in this direction for nearly a year... enough already with the 1600m!... get on with the 3600m or better the new 3700m Quadros.
     
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  2. Nintendam

    Nintendam Notebook Consultant

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    ^^^^ agreed...
    sure do need it...
     
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    plasma. herpyderpy

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    i would love to know what the 3700 quadro is equivalent to geforce wise.....

    if sager release a thinner powerhouse with mobile quad and a powerful graphics card, i would be all over it
     
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  4. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Limited design/engineering resources have to be allocated to one project or another, and emphasis on one project necessarily means that others will go wanting. Clevo is king of the heap when it comes to gaming notebooks - only _Dell can even field a close pretender to the crown - which necessarily entails that Clevo has devoted most of its design/engineering resources to that project, and thus necessarily does not have the resources to also at the same time contest for the crown vis-a-vis the 3600 GPUs (which are not gaming cards, after all).
     
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  5. Nintendam

    Nintendam Notebook Consultant

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    well i feel as if the processors they are throwing in there are aimed at workstations, i mean how many games right now will fully utilize all 4 cores? plus 6.8gb of ram? or even 4 at that matter...

    by the time the quad core is getting fully utilized by future games i'm sure the current GPU's will already be obsolete

    so I still say boo...
     
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  6. DavidtheDuke

    DavidtheDuke Notebook Consultant

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    The main reason I went quad instead of the SLIGHTLY higher dual cores is not only because of a few more games might be playable, but also because I'm going to have a field day relegating browsers and what not to the 1rd and 2th cores only. It'll also let me run P2P very easily, leaving it on only one core, like it needs more than one anyway.
     
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  7. youdontneedtoknow

    youdontneedtoknow Notebook Evangelist

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    I am afraid that by the time Clevo started shipping their new shells someone else will sell their laptops cheaper with the same specs ...
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Quadro 3600M should be rolling it within a month.
     
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  9. dit_xi

    dit_xi Notebook Evangelist

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    Does the perfect notebook exist?

    Clevo:
    D901C - Quad core powerful, but too heavy. Do you really need 3 HD's? 2 would've been sufficient. No eSATA, no HDMI
    M570TU & M860T - sigh... single GPU, single HD

    Dell/Alienware     - too expensive :(
    XPS m1730 - no quad core, not montevina, new design fugly
    m15x - too many issues (see Alienware posts), no quad core
    m17x - $$$$$$$$$$ :eek: , no quad core

    Flextronic/Arima     - W840 DI http://www.flextronics.com/arima/ViewProduct.asp?View=174 :( No NVIDIA, only offer ATI Crossfire

    Asus, Toshiba, HP, etc... - weak GPU :confused:
     
    dit_xi, Aug 12, 2008
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