Have I Finally Found True Love?

When I was looking at laptops today I came across a 17" monster from Toshiba for about the same price as I was going to pay for the Asus W3J. I had a look at the spec's of the video card tonight, which is my main concern at the moment, and was pleasantly surprised by what I found. It's got an nVidia Go 7900GS in it, which out performs the ATI X1600 I was looking for, being about twice as fast as the 6800GT I have in my desktop machine back home. Speedy indeedy!

Some may say that a 17" laptop is a little excessive for someone backpacking... and I'd totally agree, but I was a nerd long before I was a backpacker :) I'm going to have a closer look tomorrow and run some apps on it to test out the performance. The only concern I have is the speed of the hard disk, at 4200rpm it's pretty slow, but it's not going to kill me.

There's a good review here... and it actually seems a tiny bit cheaper here than in the US! It's strange enough that they use US dollars here in Ecuador, 10 cents never bought so much, but that's just crazy!

Oh, in other nerdy news, it looks like Java is finally going Open Source... Double yah! Pity it's, I think, too late for them in the game arena. C# has a big upper hand there, no surprises though considering it's Microsoft. I wonder what ever happened to Java on the PS2?