A friend of mine wants to buy a high-end laptop to serve as a mobile gaming platform, and is looking for recommendations.
The critical parameters:
--> FAST processor. Athlon64 is preferred, but one of the high-end Pentium 4s would be fine too.
--> 1 GB of DDR RAM.
--> FAST mobile 3-D accelerator card. No preference between nVidia and ATI, just as long as it screams. (He is under the impression that the ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 is the current top-of-the-line...is that true?)
--> 17" display.
--> Sufficiently large hard drive to store several GB of music and game files/mods.
--> IDEAL price range is $3000 or less, but is willing to go (slightly) higher for an ideal configuration.
He is considering the following system from Hypersonic PC, but his concern is that he's never heard of the company before. Any comments?
Thanks for any info you can provide. He'd like to make a decision by Thursday, since he has a limited window for getting the system prior to going on a 3+ month trip to unmentionable places...
The critical parameters:
--> FAST processor. Athlon64 is preferred, but one of the high-end Pentium 4s would be fine too.
--> 1 GB of DDR RAM.
--> FAST mobile 3-D accelerator card. No preference between nVidia and ATI, just as long as it screams. (He is under the impression that the ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 is the current top-of-the-line...is that true?)
--> 17" display.
--> Sufficiently large hard drive to store several GB of music and game files/mods.
--> IDEAL price range is $3000 or less, but is willing to go (slightly) higher for an ideal configuration.
He is considering the following system from Hypersonic PC, but his concern is that he's never heard of the company before. Any comments?
Any other suggestions for possible laptops?
Thanks for any info you can provide. He'd like to make a decision by Thursday, since he has a limited window for getting the system prior to going on a 3+ month trip to unmentionable places...
