Will notebooks replace desktops eventually?

[escapedturkey]

Seems the technology of a notebook today matches a desktop or surpasses it. For the price range (+$500) of a desktop -- monitor, keyboard, mouse, all the parts, etc.. you can get an equally powerful notebook, especially with the new Intel Core Duo rigs.

For example, I'm getting rid of:

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+, MMX, 3DNow
(2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz MANCHESTER
MB: ASUS A8N5
Memory: 2048MB RAM Dual Channel CORSAIR TWINX2048-3200C2
Video: EVGA 256-P2-N516-RX GEFORCE 7800 GT 256MB PCI-E GDDR3 w/HDTV
& VIVO)
HD: SEAGATE 80GB ST3808110/380811AS SATA300 7200RPM 8MB 8.5MS
DVD-ROM: LITE ON 16X DVD
Monitor: SamSung SyncMaster 215TW(Digital) Monitor Max Res: 1680,1050
Sound: Creative SB X-Fi Audio
Power: ENERMAX EG465P-FMA WHISPER II ATX 12V VERSION 1.3 460W UL &
FCC POWER SUPPLY

Approx $1000 when new (even built it myself).

Replacing it with:

Ispiron E1705 - Intel(r) CoreTM Duo Proc T2500 (2GHz/667MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache
17 inch Wide Screen XGA+ Display
2048MB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
256MB NVIDIA(r) GeForceTM Go 7900 GS
Etc, etc, etc...

$1,475.63

The advantage -- portabililty and the battery can act like a built in UPS.

Disadavantage -- Can't upgrade the CPU/video card combo. Costs a few hundred more than putting together a desktop.

The argument is you can't upgrade a notebook. Can you truly upgrade a desktop? Within a couple years (or less) there is typically some new kind of bus type/CPU pin/memory/HD standard that forces you to replace most of your rig to put in new parts.

[*DARKMATTER*]

I thought you only used macs???

P.S its true about the upgrade i missed out on the duel core chips by one week when i bought this rig if only i had waited i could of had duel core in here instead of the single thats installed they used the same M.B too lol..

[{DOU}cHiCkEn]

Gets good reviews on CNET. Good price to for a system you can game with. I was looking for a gaming laptop I can take to Europe with me. I was also looking at the DELL XPS M1710.

http://reviews.cnet.com/Dell_XPS_M1710/ ... ml?tag=lst

[escapedturkey]

Chicken,

Nice ones ...

This is what I got:

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2776

I chose the non-glossy screen -- can't stand reflections.

[GRouND ZeRo]

Seems like a great laptop but you not truly throwing away the tower are you??? could use that as a local server if you know what I mean??? especially when you run alot of things at once and need sooo much space...