I’ve determined exactly what I want in a laptop (he he he).
It shouldd weigh 2kg or less, it should sport a battery life of 3.5 hours at the very least, its processor should perform at at least the level of a 1.5GHz Banias, it should have a 5400 RPM, or faster, hard drive (in any case no Toshiba, thank you very much, they’re dog slow, even the ones with 16MB cache), the 3D graphics should support pixel and vertex shaders and should rack up at least 7000 on 3D Mark 2001, it should have at least 512MB ram at at least 333MHz DDR and the screen can be anything from 12″ to 15″.
Oh yes, all of this should cost no more than EUR2000, all inclusive.
As you might have guessed, this beastie doesn’t exist yet. The Asus S5200 comes the closest in all regards (even price!) but unfortunately makes use of the Intel 855GME embedded graphics functionality, so the 3D Mark 2001 score is around 2400. I’ll wait some more.
7 Comments to “My laptop does not exist yet”
April 13, 2004
You forgot to mention the futuristic backlit keyboard and glowing piece of fruit in the lid.
April 13, 2004
Dear Sir,
With regards to your allusion that I have been unfairly discriminating against glowing pieces of fruit, I would like to point out this interesting weblog posting and its enlightening comments:
http://echadwick.typepad.com/weblog/2004/04/post.html
April 13, 2004
Ok, so the ‘Centrino’ might be better in a straight line, but its six litre V12 is going to look pretty silly lying at the bottom of a ravine when the going gets twisty, isn’t it?
Handling is everything.
April 13, 2004
Smartypants!
April 14, 2004
The Sony PCGV505DP.CEZ seems to make the grade on everything except the price… see the specs and price as of 2004-04-14 by opening this PDF:
http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/~cpbotha/thingies/pcgv505dp.cez.20040414.pdf
Sony Europe’s *brilliant* (Yes, that’s sarcasm. Actually irony, but nevermind.) website doesn’t allow direct linking.
April 14, 2004
A few hundred euros cheaper here:
http://www.pcsnel.nl/details.asp?ProductId=7491
April 19, 2004
I wouldn’t mind having the HP Compaq NC6000 either. It’s a tad on the expensive side and a tad over my 2kg max weight specification, but it gets raving reviews: http://h41100.www4.hp.com/nl/dut/commercial/notebooks/nc6000_series.html