New laptop

New laptop

October 30th, 2007 // 9:10 am @ Amar

As promised I am back. My development laptop has arrived. It is more like beauty and the beast put together. ( A real beauty to look at and work on while performing like a beast ). Many people have asked me more details about the laptop and I will try to review it later on sometime.

I finally decided to buy a Rock Xtreme 770 from Rock Direct. The configuration I went for is as follows :

• Intel Core 2 Duo T7500


• New Nvidia GeForce 8700M GT 512MB (DX10) Graphics Card


• Hi-res 17″ WUXGA+ Display


• 2GB DDR2 667MHz (single module)


• 100GB 7200rpm SATA HDD


• HD DVD


• Windows Vista Home Premium

I chose to go for a single module 2GB ram as I want to add another 2GB stick later on and migrate to Vista 64 as soon as all decent drivers are available. I do like gaming, and so far 8700 has been an absolute beauty. Running almost all games ( BioShock, Quake Wars, Lotro ) on high settings at full native resolution ( 1920 x 1280 ).

I will be setting this up next and I have decided to write a few posts on how I setup my laptop. May be helpful to people who want to get the most from their machine.

Category : General