Of the wide screen notebooks available, Dell created some stir by introducing the Inspiron 8600 in late August, which is supposed to be the successor to the Inspiron 8500.
Quote from the review at Anandtech:
“The mixed results we mentioned earlier come from the lack of performance when paired to Mobility Radeon 9600 based notebooks. VoodooPC’s Envy 460 and other thin and light notebooks that use the Mobility Radeon 9600 may take some steam off of Dell’s Inspiron 8600 for those looking for the cutting edge when it comes to mobile gaming. As for business and multimedia users, the Inspiron 8600 certainly has shined its stuff.
So far, we have no word from Dell when it comes to the use of Mobility Radeon 9600 on their notebooks. We have already passed word along that this combination has shown interest by our readers, and we are sure they are investigating this possibility. Dell doesn’t seem to be treading too lightly on the DX9 scene, since they were sponsoring the ATI event at Alcatraz; we do expect to see Dell continue to use mobile ATI graphic processing parts in the future. Right now, we are still waiting to hear more about NVIDIA’s next generation of mobile graphics parts, specifically NV36M. NV38 seems more promising than its predecessor, which leaves us curious about the mobile side…”
