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 Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:43 pm
Yeah! I went out and bought one today. After much careful consideration, it was determined that walmart had an incredible deal beyond any of the actual electronics stores.
My laptop was $550 after tax, and a laptop with similar specs often cost up to $200 more elsewhere. It was weird.
Specs, for those interested:
2.1 Ghz AMD dual core
3GB RAM
250GB Harddrive
nVidia 9200n
15.4" widescreen
CD/DVD RW drive
5-in-one card reader
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:46 am
i want one for my car ! gonk
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:00 am
My new laptop cost about $1750. >.<
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:09 am
Nice.
Lappies, like computer parts in general, are pretty cheap now.
I've been upgrading my PC piecemeal for the past couple months now, and I'm about to perform a delicate operation: replacing my CPU (and heatsink).
Old gear:
2x 512mb DDR 700 RAM
nVidia 8300 GTS 128mb
Intel Core 2 4300 @ 1.8GHz
Stock Intel Heatsink
New Gear:
2x 2gb DDR 800 RAM - Installed
Galaxy nVidia 9500 GTS 1gb - Installed
Intel Pentium E6300 Wolfdale @ 2.8GHz - Installed
Noctua 92mm CPU Cooler - Installed
I'm actually considering playing with overclocking on this one. surprised
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:33 pm
Is that what you're learning in school? How to build computers?
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:47 pm
No, that's what I'm learning in my spare time; I'm learning theoretical math in school.
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:12 pm
I do envy people who can build their own computers. Hardware and I never really got along.
But I like my laptop. It goes with me on trips and works well enough that I don't need a desk top.
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:32 am
IceBlake Nice.
Lappies, like computer parts in general, are pretty cheap now.
I've been upgrading my PC piecemeal for the past couple months now, and I'm about to perform a delicate operation: replacing my CPU (and heatsink).
Old gear:
2x 512mb DDR 700 RAM
nVidia 8300 GTS 128mb
Intel Core 2 4300 @ 1.8GHz
Stock Intel Heatsink
New Gear:
2x 2gb DDR 800 RAM - Installed
Galaxy nVidia 9500 GTS 1gb - Installed
Intel Pentium E6300 Wolfdale @ 2.8GHz - On Order
Noctua 92mm CPU Cooler - On Order
I'm actually considering playing with overclocking on this one. surprised Ooooh! Not bad specs. Thats my next project, my PC is 5 years old and its starting to kinda... failt to do what I need of it. Thing is, my case is so farking tiny I can't just upgrade by piece, so over the next while, I'll be doing a full rebuild. Whoop!
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:40 am
The only reason I'm not doing a full rebuild yet is this: I don't want to mess with flashing a BIOS. I'll be doing that later, though. All that's left to replace are drives, mobo, and case, which I may do around Thanksgiving (during the Black Saturday online sales).
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:12 am
Ahhh, I have a boyfriend who's build a few computers to help me through that step and make sure nothing gets messed up. I wouldn't be very keen to do it myself either.
I'm not sure how well I would be able to upgrade part by part, either. Most of my parts are so utterly obsolete that they may not even be compatible with current ones, which would mean I'd be upgrading almost everything at the same time anyway. And putting it in a new case since nothing fits.
So yeah, this is my only option.
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:12 am
I installed my new CPU and heatsink Tuesday night. whee
The detail and lack of lag are so very, very wonderful. Improvement is evident everywhere: textures, light, shadows, layering in HD videos, enemy AI... Mmm. Tasty graphics.
That heatsink is awesome, btw, and even though it's a close fit in my Dell case, it's dropped the active temp by at least 20 degrees.
I ended up flashing the BIOS anyway. *shrug*
Now I just need to go buy a new game to play with on my higher settings. I'm planning on getting Bioshock soon (since I haven't played it yet).
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Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:13 pm
huzzah for new laptops!
i take mine everywhere
well, when i go out of town.
it's really good at getting wi-fi bars.
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