Np5760

Is it correct that if I opt for 2 hard drives then the 2nd harddrive will eliminate
my only cd-rom drive?

 

Yes, but I believe that it is hot swappable, so you could switch out between drives, preserving your ability to run cd/dvds and have a multi HHD without needing to restart the computer.

 

That is correct, you can Swap between the drives. You can not run the 2nd HDD and the CD Drive at the same time =(

 

Yes, but it is not hot swapable if you run a raid configuration.

 

I have the 5710 with a second battery that replaces the DVD/Cd drive so I can't watch DVD's with the second battery.

 

Exactly. So in a nutshell the same bay can accept a ODD, a second hard disk or a secondary battery.

They are swappable, but NOT HOTswappable. I mean if I remove my battery and insert the ODD, Windows won't recognize it. I have to restart so the BIOS detects it. I'm not sure with the HDD thjough.

 

The HDD is NOT hot swappable - I have it. Save yourself some bucks and just get an external USB/FireWire case. Wish I had. :-(

 

Is there any chance we'll see the 5760 (or anything 17'inch laptop) sporting a next generation GPU (ala 8800) when that chipset is released?

 

the 5760 (re-branded Clevo M570U) will probably not get the next-gen 8800, since a new Clevo M570RU has been announced with Santa Rosa and Clevo's new modular videocard design to support upcoming nVidia 8800 Go, which they [Clevo] is hoping to be ready by Summer 2007.

 

Thats what I figured when I bought my system in the first place. The way I went into buying the whole 5760 thing while the new santa rosa was just around the corner is that I figured that the 5760 has "proven itself" to be very capable and proven stable setup. Everyone else will be paying a price premium to beta test new hardware designs and even the GPU is radically different in that it's going to take developers a least a year and a half to tap it potential and with the nvidia drivers so CPU sensitive your 8800 hardware is actually bottlenecked by the CPU, so any notebook CPU they pair up with it may actually not show much of a difference in performance just yet. Then again.. it all depends on how underclocked the first 8800 GO's are out the door compared to the desktop siblings.

By next year ATI (you would hope) would at least have something to show in the DX10 Mobile GPU. Then we could really have some choices.. Newer CPU Die shrinks, quad core mobile (dreaming), and some healthy competition between ATI/NVIDIA, and maybe by that time 4gig ram is being pushed as "affordable".

droool.

PS: I will never get use to calling ATI -> AMD, doesn't look right in a sentence when you type AMD VS NVIDIA...

 

LOL. Well thats it seems for those people using Windows Vista and have to report bugs, as well as those that got the next-gen consoles and have to keep the software up to date for bug fixes and exploits.

If you are an enthusiast, its just comes with the territory.

 

Heh; thats why I waited a year and a half to get my Xbox 360. Nothing like paying 500 dollars for a 'sickly' piece of equipment.

 

Haha, but you're the patient kind of guy. Lucky you . I'm not like that ... lol