Monday, June 28, 2004
TrustedReview - "Voodoo Envy M:860 - Gaming Notebook"
Posted by James Fee in "ARTICLE" @ 12:00 PM
"It's no surprise to see that the Envy M:860 is a pretty high-spec notebook. After all, if you want to play the latest games on the move, you're going to need a bit of grunt under the hood. Unlike the Rock last week, this Voodoo is based on AMD technology and the central processing duties are fulfilled by an Athlon 64 3400+. Supporting the AMD CPU is 1GB of 333MHz DDR RAM and a 60GB 7,200rpm hard disk - both these components should help to push the performance of the Voodoo that bit further. "
Laptops are all the rage now and there are tons of models that claim to be desktop replacements. Usually they are just bigger models that the manufacturers can't claim to be notebooks. :wink: Enter the Voodoo Envy M:860. This laptop was built to be a gaming machine and appears to fulfill most of that aspiration. Problems appear related to the AMD CPU, but as more companies use this solution, I can only assume AMD will get better at it. Also, for a gaming computer, 60 GB is way too small (Dell and others offer 80 GB drives).
At $4,529.13 though, this is a VERY expensive solution. 8O
Laptops are all the rage now and there are tons of models that claim to be desktop replacements. Usually they are just bigger models that the manufacturers can't claim to be notebooks. :wink: Enter the Voodoo Envy M:860. This laptop was built to be a gaming machine and appears to fulfill most of that aspiration. Problems appear related to the AMD CPU, but as more companies use this solution, I can only assume AMD will get better at it. Also, for a gaming computer, 60 GB is way too small (Dell and others offer 80 GB drives).
At $4,529.13 though, this is a VERY expensive solution. 8O
