You can get the 9300 with the Nvidia 6800Go, which is able to handle all of today's games on very good settings.

Yeah, I looked at the go6800, but I'm not to thrilled with it. Personally I feel NVida has kind of fallen to the 3dfx syndrome (got complacent). Their hardware seems to lately be a 'what can we throw together to match ATI' rather than good engineering. I really wish Dell would just offer the x700 or x800 as options. It would make a lot of us developer types happy.

-stephen

The Nvidia Vs. ATI debate will last forever just like XP Vs. OSX, Linux (or whatever OS you prefer) or Intel Vs. AMD. It's all a matter of opinion. They are are all decent companies with quality products. Most people just stay away from what they have been burnt by in the past. Unless, Of course, it's Microsoft. Those guys a pyros, and yet we all continue to jump in the fire. I have a x800 in my pc because it was the most powerful card out when I bought it. I have a go6800 in my 9300 for the same reason. I am happy with the performance of both cards and have never once had a problem with either of them and would recommend, if your buying a notebook in the near future and enjoy gaming, to do same because, unlike the pc, these things can't be replaced easily.   

Message Edited by terojas1 on 08-04-2005 05:28 PM

thanks terojas1, It's primarily because I got burned by the geforce 440go (which was pretty much a geforce 2 labeled as A 4) on my current laptop.  Does anyone know a good place to find a comparison of the two cards?