The real answer is secret choice Z the Precision M60 with the Quadro 1000 FX :)

Tom's hardware never seems to praise anything ATI does. Are they sponsored by nvidia or something?

the 9100 is the steal..you get a P4 2.8 w/HT + 9700 (same performance as desktop 9600pro)

or you can get a PM 1.4 (about 2.0ghz equiv) and a 9600 (desktop 9600np) for $80 more than the 9100..

your choice

and the performance is about 50FPS difference

Message Edited by rp_guy on 03-11-2004 06:54 PM

rp_guy - where did you read about how the 9700 mob = 9600 pro?  I'm dying for information about em :)

http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20040203/radeon_9700-07.html

pretty close to even the XT..so tom's has drawn up some strange conclusion..it's like comparing 9600 pro to 9600XT..

I wouldn't recommend buying any of them - they all have cheap and nasty chassis, unbelievably bad keyboards and poor build quality. There are plenty of new Radeon mobility 9700 notebooks coming out right now and I would suggest buying a notebook with Pentium -M and the 9700. A desktop pentium4 will not, repeat, will not give you any advantage in games because the bottlenecking occurs on the mobility 9700, not the CPU. This is beacuse the 9700, while being fast for a notebook graphics chips, still has less than half the performance of the fastest desktop graphics cards.

Overall conclusion is: do not buy a notebook with a desktop CPU because you think it will be faster for gaming, buy the notebook with the best video card - if that happens to be a notebook with a desktop CPU, fine. But right now that's not the case because there are plenty of notebooks launching with the radeon 9700.

Message Edited by caboosemoose on 03-12-2004 12:55 PM