Righty
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Too bloated. When I got my dell laptop, I installed XP right away as soon as I got it. Give vista some time and it will become a nice OS.
XP took a few years.
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Sexy. Except for the horrible Dell logo, it's so lame, they ruin all of their products by putting their crap logo on it.
I don't mind the dell logo. I'm proud of my dell
8600.. You should be able to game good with that.And the pink kicks ass anyway, haha
For a laptop of 750 those are awesome specs. Wouldn't be able to get more then a 7400 here.
Ran any benchmarks yet?
I have not. What is a good free benchmarking utility?
I have a laptop with a 8600m GT too and it's a very good gaming card. I have a core2duo t7500 too(2.2GHz and 4 MB L2 cache.) Only your color.What make/model? I actually think I'm being slowed down by the T5250 in games. Hoping to upgrade to something faster
I was thinking of upgrading my laptop (prob upgrade cpu to 2ghz duo and upgrade card to something better than a 7300GT) instead of having to buy a new desktop, but I've heard a lot about having issues with overheating etc...Have you had any troubles of this nature?btw did you upgrade the CPU, how does a 1.5 coreduo go with the games, what have you tried on it?
I'd rather have a pink laptop for like $500US cheaper, especially if im paying for it myself
I think it's slowing me down a wee bit. It's at 100% usage. I can't overclock though
Apparently they haven't got a program for santa rosa chipset). I haven't overheated it too bad yet. Onetime I went nuts with the clock speeds and the drivers crashed. Luckily for me, the inspiron 1520 is one of the best cooling laptops.I've got a 2,2 GHz Core2Duo for my my dads laptop. It's great. SuperPi in 20 seconds, what is very good for a laptop.Games.. it depends.. You won't be able to get games like World in Conflict on max settings and forget about Crysis. But it's good.
For a desktop you'll probably want a E6750 or better. Oh, and a E6850 is a better choice then a Q6600, since games don't really support quad cores yet.
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Long story ahead
So back in October, my thinkpad blew a motherboard. The thinkpad repair place on campus had no idea how long it would take to get it fixed and they refused to give me a loaner laptop. Apparently, being a computer student, I didn't need a laptop ... okay
So I start browsing Dell for used laptops - my only criteria was 1) Core 2 duo, 2) Decent video card
So I stumbled across this:
Dell Inspiron 1520
1.5 GHz Core 2 Duo
1gb memory
X3100 graphics card
Now I thought the x3100 was an ATI radeon. I have a x1300 in my thinkpad and it's a decent card. And for the price of 550 (this is a referb unit), I thought I'd buy it. Apparently it was intel X3100. And when I placed the order I didn't know it was pink. Dell wouldn't cancel the order for it being pink
So I get the laptop and find out it's got a crappy graphics card. Okay, oh well. After doing some research, I found out that I can get a decent Nvidia card for it.
I ordered nvidia card from ebay and found out that i have to get a different motherboard. So I ordered the motherboard. I now have a kickass pink laptop with Nvidia 8600M GT card ... I love it!
And thanks to the prices I got on ebay, I have a $1300 laptop for around $750
Pics!
I took them in a lounge and people were oohing and aahing that someone took apart a laptop and 'upgraded it'
Note that the camera screwed up the color, it's flamingo pink
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Splinter Cell games are fun. Hell, if you dont want to waste a christmas present on them, pick thme up at the used bin
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Widescreen is nice for internet browsing in laptops.
But I like regular
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I'm horrible with the little cars in GT4.
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The only portable ones I have seen are 2.5'' drives. And they are more expensive.
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I'm actually a fan of the dodge caravan! leaf springs and beamaxle in the rear!
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I've been here since 03.
damn that's a long time.
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I'd go with external hard drives for backup.
Actually, it's pretty nice to store data on external hard drives! Each time one of my servers or laptops dies I jsut have to plug the drives into another computer.
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After playing the demo and severely overclocking the laptop I'm definitely going to buy the game this week.
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At college I am an RA. I make/save 2785 a semester. I also sit infront of a door and watch it for 4 hours, once a week for $7 ah hour.
Outside of college (breaks) I work at target. Varies anywhere from 40 to 60 hours a week depending on the season.
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What exactly do you mean by turn properly? How do you turn improperly? On every american car I've driven, the car turns where I turn the wheel, same goes for all american cars I rode in.
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Oh my god I fell in love with the game.
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Most vehicles would be considered to have way less generations if you went by platform changes. If that were the cas, my 4th generation taurus would be a 1st generation taurus ... there are very few differences between them.
Usually generations are major changes in body or platform or both.
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You need to get vids of that 6. I love straight 6 engines.
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Tabasco owns.
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Straight couples or gay couples?
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MACs aren't that bad as far as stability. The only problems I have with MACs is the incompatibilities. And they are starting to get those ironed out. If I owned a newer MAC with an intel chipset I'd be running bootcamp and XP
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You can either learn a bunch of facts about computers, or understand things about them. IMO, the best way to be 'computer savy' is to have a lot of experience with them - be it by taking hands on classes or just dealing with them all the time.
Most of what I know about computers comes from hands on experience. I know about various operating systems (9x, 2000, XP, Server 2k and 2k3 (not so much)) because i have played with them. Hardware is the same, I have played with a lot of hardware. Up until last year, I didn't have much experience with laptop hardware - now that I own two of them, I'm becoming pretty good at working on laptops.
So, in conclusion, I think the best way for you to learn computers is to get a cheap one or a second computer, put some different OSs on there and play with it. Break it and learn how to fix it.
You can also join computer-related message boards. That might be able to give you some experience into what other people are experiencing with computers.
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I just got Vista
GG.
Why don't you just set everything to automatically run as admin?
My solution is reformat and install XP
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I'm not sure if they were too bad. From what I've heard from owners, they get like 26-28 on the highway. The AWD models got slightly less. Some of it is due to the 3.0 duratec v6 being a bit underpowered for the size of the car.
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Ford Five Hundred. Nice big, reliable car.
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There's a good chance I'm going to be going this thursday night too. Hopefully I'll do something this time.
Teen Sets Classmate on Fire, Claim he transformed in a Warcraft Fire Mage.
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I set a friend on fire once. I didn't blame it on a videogame. Instead i blamed it on using too much rubbing alcohol and him having too much of a beard.