Dell XPS Gen2 is.....

[Despotes]

HERE (http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_xps2?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn)
It's one amazing laptop! It's also not quite as ugly as the other Dells.
**Order, not order, order, not order...* :bang head

[Xenocide]

wow, very nice!!!

[Dylruss]

Woah, I never considered paying that much for a laptop, but I am now.

[Despotes]

Holy snotcakes! Check This (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2356&p=1) review out. :drool:

[ozzlo]

wow that held up to a desktop athalon64 4000+ system... amazing....

[Aslan]

Wow, I'm quite surprised at the the performance and it appears that mobile gaming has pretty much caught up to the desktop. However, considering weight and battery life, I'm not sure if I would call the XPS2 truly mobile.

[Echo_]

http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/20050224/index.html

THG also did a review on it, mostly the vid card tho :P

[d94]

wholly crap guys... this thing has a 6800 ultra and its about an inch thick :drool:
configured: 60gb 7200, 1gb ddr2 533mhz 8x dvd burner $2600

[Cyberwiz01]

That's a pretty buff laptop, but in a laptop I'm more of a fan of light weight and long battery life than I am of sheer horsepower. I'll stick with my tablet PC.

[AZNBoiOnFIYA]

its still around 9lbs, but it has a more energy efficient processor and graphics card. nice job dell and nvidia.

[ps2cho]

any benchmarks with it?

[mista ting]

my friend is going to buy that but with more extras ill show some beches :D!

[Icedfire101]

i would rather have a laptop that has a battary life of over an hour....

and for a desktop replacement it is alot more expsive and i can't upgrade it myself very much or very cheaply...

though if i had money to burn and needed a lan party or was going aboard then i might look into it...

[d94]

so how does a mobile 6800ultra compare to a reg. 6800ultra?

[Dylruss]

It looks judging from those 2 articles that it is pretty close to the desktop version of the 6800 Ultra. I am interested, and will look for more information on it.

[ozzlo]

Because of the dothan processor, lowvoltage ram, efficent videocard this baby is only going to get an extera 25-50% battery life cause the battery capacity is 2/3 of the previous gen.

[Lusankya]

Go with a Sager if you prefer a Non dell.

I love mine and its a powerhouse.. nothings given it a problem yet and it runs perfectly

[Despotes]

The sagers are definately better looking. The word is there will be a Sonoma based PCI Express GPU laptop (Sager, extremenotebooks, cyberpowersystems...) in a few weeks. I'm going to hold out and see what they'll have to offer first.

[jnev_89]

Go with a Sager if you prefer a Non dell.

I love mine and its a powerhouse.. nothings given it a problem yet and it runs perfectly

as much as i prefer sager over dell, i in all honesty like the xps2 more than the 9860. better battery life and pretty much the same power (unless you're doing a lot of compiling and stuff, in which case a p4 would be better)

[betterlife18]

The first generation Inspiron XPS system SUCK. I take calls on them all the time (by the way, I'm an XPS technician at the call center in Nashville).

I got a chance to strip down the Gen2, it is one bad mofo.