I just ordered my new notebook and it just arrived!!
Here are the specs and the best part I got all of it for just $1,075!!
ThinkPad R61 Discrete 8918
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor T9300 (2.5GHz 800MHz 6MBL2)
Operating System: Genuine Windows XP Professional
Screen: 15.4" WSXGA+,Camera,BT
Video Card: nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M, PC Card/ PCIe
Memory: 2 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz SODIMM Memory (1 DIMM)
Pointing Device: UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad) with Finger Print Reader
Hard Drive: 160GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
optical Drive: DVD Recordable 8x Max Ultrabay Enhanced
Wirless Card: Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (supporting Centrino Pro)
Bluetooth: Integrated Bluetooth PAN
After I mess around with it a bit I will let you know how it is! The best part about it, is that it came with XP!! Not that crashy Vista!!
I can't believe you chose XP over Vista.
I can always install Vista afterwards... plus I dont have to worry about the drag that comes along Vista
seriously, you need Vista 64bit. If you have a Home Premium Vista license, I'll loan you my CD. Vista 64bit = 4 GB of RAM = the hotness
also, did you get a graphics card with dedicated onboard RAM? HIGHLY important. Can't tell if you got that or not. My HP DV2000t says it's go a NVideo GeForce Go 7200 with 128MB RAM, turns out there's only 32MB of RAM onboard the card, it steals the rest, which is kinda wack but better than nothing.
I dont know if the graphics card has dedicated onboard RAM. How do I find that out?
it would have been an option when you ordered the laptop. sorry man.
Well here are the specs on the graphics card:
Product: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
Memory Size: 128/256 MB
Memory Interface: 64-bit
Bus Interface: PCI Express x16
Display Connectors: VGA, DVI, LVDS, HDTV, HDMI
Max. Displays per Board: 2
Max. Digital Display Support: 1600 x 1200
Max. Analog Display Support: 2048 x 1536
When you have 4GB of RAM (or even 2), is 96MB really even a big deal? Or is it just a ton slower?
i'll argue that it matters for games. For instance, the other day, I wanted to check out Portal. (i'm not really into first person games but it sounded like an interesting concept.) I checked "can you run it"'s website, and it said i couldn't b/c i didn't have a 128MB graphics card, only a 32MB.
so ... yes.