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The FragBook
Petaris writes "For all of you hard core gamers out there a new choice is availiable for gaming notebooks. Introducing the Falcon Northwest FragBook. This notebook will be in direct competition with gaming notebooks from several competetors including Alienware and VooDoo. Falcon-nw, VooDoo, and more recently Alienware are the place to look for insanely high end and usually fairly expensive gaming systems. The gaming notebook, a more recent arrival in the industry, promises more recent processors than are commonly available for notebooks. Just make sure you stock up on batteries or settle in next to an outlet. :)"
yea, nothing really beats a loaded out desktop for gaming. But for going to a lan party, those are really heavy, especially the giant monitors. If i only had enough money, it would be really schweet to have a special lan party laptop.
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...if you're staying in one place. If you're going to gatherings, LAN with friends or otherwise move the machine round alot (e.g. because you need to put it away to make room), all the cables and weight is a hassle.
If I was about 15-18 somewhere again I might have gotten one of these (translation: I may have suckered my parents into buying me one). Would be perfect for the kind of computer use I had back then. Newer LCDs work very good at games, just add an USB mouse and some good headphones. It's a gaming system in a backpack.
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its a notebook tho...its supposed to be light and compact. What happens when your not connected to power and you have to use your notebook on battery? Thats twice the drain for a that singular amount of storage (unless they are running it in a striped array).
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"The computer you want always costs $5000".
I can't remember who said it but it remains true. Fully tricked out this baby is a 5G+ machine.
I specked it with RAID 0 (yes, on a laptop), DVDRW (With a RAID 0 your Documents must go elsware), TV Card, Bluetooth, 1 GB RAM, 3 year warranty and little else. Now if they could offer an unpainted version and pass on the savings from that...
I care about how my PC runs, not how it looks.
PS: I chose XP Home (-$70) because I know I don't need pro to play games. I have herd that XPHome functions better under gamming loads than Pro. Is this true?
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Whats with the 1400x900 screen res? How good is the lcd going to perform when it has to scale to another resolution? At least on the dell you have true HDTV resolution on a smaller screen. I love the custom paint jobs offerred, but how much? Their "american flag" job costs almost $250.
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First "TheTechLounge" writes about an article on... thetechlounge.com! Not that I'm complaining about the content, it's a good article, but why couldn't you have just posted it on Slashdot directly?
Then this article, does anyone else think that this was written by the guy that makes these laptops? I suppose it still has some interest to nerds (and people who care about what matters), but it doesn't seem right to allow free advertising like this...
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Not to mention hundreds of dollars cheaper and about 10 pounds lighter.
Seriously, folks, the Powerbook I just bought looked major expensive until I tried finding a PC laptop that was roughly the same size and weight with a pleasant look. The closest competetors were from voodoopc ($500 more expensive) and the Acer Ferrari (same price, but I've heard iffy reports on the quality).
There's something nice about a machine that has a big enough screen for p-shop and gaming, runs (relatively) cool for 4 hours and you can hold with one hand.
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I'm happy cleaning house at the lan games with my 17" tibook. Granted, the external speakers and usb trackball are somewhat manditory, but that still fits well within my definition of "portable". Sadly, it's over 2 years old and the graphics chipset is showing its age when I play UT 2004, but I foresee an upgrade next year sometime to put my fps back in the high double digits where they belong.
And the ironic part... the lan games are hosted at -my- house, and almost without exception, all the guests bring giant towers with deafening fans and hulking trinitrons. I have to chuckle watching them lug all that big equipment around. (one fellow has gotten smart and now brings a big LCD monitor) But yet for some reason they never want to even consider a laptop. They must enjoy hauling the big boxes around?
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