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Phoenix
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New computer!I've bought... a new computer. |
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For the past two weeks, I think, I've been without a computer because my old one died. I was originally planning to take my old stationairy computer and upgrade it, but it had no graphics card, no monitor, no keyboard and no speakers. And it wasn't a laptop. So today I went to town and bought a new laptop. Not state of the art but very nice I think. I've gone from: 1.5 GHz single-core -> 2.1 GHz dual-core 512 MB RAM -> 3 GB RAM 40 GB harddrive -> 320 GB harddrive Integrated useless card -> 256 MB graphics card And from Windows XP -> Windows Vista The difference is giganormous. Cost me $1279, or £666 for all you UK:ers. First impression is that they've packed the computer with useless software I don't want; eBay links, Norton Antivirus, HP games (in German!), etc. Took me no time to remove though. Vista is a nice swap from XP I think, and I especially like the visual goodies. |
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| Saturday, 09 August 2008, 05:20 | |
Jayenkai
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ARGH! NORTON!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! And, for the record.. ARGH! VISTA!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (Although, I've yet to try it with my new gfx card.. it might actually half-work, now!) But congrats on the big-ass upgrade. Now all you have to do is find enough garbage to fill the 320Gb. .. Shouldn't be too hard 
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| Saturday, 09 August 2008, 05:23 | |
shroom_monk
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Sounds nice, but it might break quite quickly: 1) Vista; 2) £666! 
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| Saturday, 09 August 2008, 10:44 | |
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Nice specs. And Vista should run great on OEM hardware.
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| Saturday, 09 August 2008, 14:13 | |
blanko1324
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Real good specs, 'cept for Norton, and the misc. shovel-ware. I can't say anything about Vista, as I've never used it. Is it big, like a desktop replacement?
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| Saturday, 09 August 2008, 15:54 | |
Phoenix
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It's a regular sized laptop, 15.4" screen. By the way, I haven't had any problems with Vista so far
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| Saturday, 09 August 2008, 16:02 | |
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Jayenkai
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Try making a regular folder, with regular working files in it... Text, docs, .bb's, .c's and what have you... Then put an mp3 in the folder.. Bwa-ha-ha-ha!! Vista makes the rules, not you!!! But glad to hear it's working well. I bet you've been having plenty of fun! There's nothing quite like trashing a new system, and making it your own 
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| Sunday, 10 August 2008, 04:46 | |
JL235
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Vista is awesome, and I'm sure Phoenix's laptop will be too as a result. I'm even contemplating putting it on my eee!
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| Sunday, 10 August 2008, 05:04 | |
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shroom_monk
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I must say, I haven't really had that many problems with Vista, apart from the odd (and they are actually quite rare) BSOD.
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| Sunday, 10 August 2008, 06:09 | |
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JL235
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Only 5% of BSODs in Windows are actually caused by Microsoft code. It's the drivers to blame who cause over 70% of them!
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