New Laptop

[Sidoh]

My parents bought me a new laptop for graduation!  Here's what I got:

Dell Inspiron E1705

CPU: Intel Core Duo Processor T2300 (1.66 GHz/667 MHz FSB)

OS: Genuine Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (I'll probably wipe this and install Slackware/XP Pro)

LCD Panel: 17" Wide Screen XGA+ Display

Video Card: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800

Hard Drive: 80 GB 5400 RPM SATA

Networking: Integrated 10/100; Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g mini card

Battery: 80 WHr 9-cell lithium ion primary battery

Warranty: 4 year limited warrenty

Price: $1,846.26

[ZeroX]

Video Card: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800
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Thats what I want for the new comp iam buliding. How much does that video card run for now?

Congrats BTW I am probally going to go out to dinner for my graduation. 

[igimo1]

sauce.


I think you should've asked your parents to wait to buy you that laptop (like, when you actually need it - two months from now). It would've been loads cheaper

[Sidoh]

sauce.


I think you should've asked your parents to wait to buy you that laptop (like, when you actually need it - two months from now). It would've been loads cheaper

Maybe.  Things tend to stay expensive in laptops for much longer than they do with PC's, though.

[BigAznDaddy]

o dell not my choice of laptop but it still works
i prefer compaq

[Sidoh]

o dell not my choice of laptop but it still works

Of course it does.  I've been a technical assistant in my school district for four years.  I've seen a lot of new laptops bought.  I've done the builds on about half of them.

I assure you that Dell laptops "still work."  They're actualy some of the best I've seen.  We've bought DakTech, HP, IBM, Compaq and Gateway.

That said, I'd like to hear any valid, supporting reason you have for your silly conclusion.

i prefer compaq

One of the first PC's my family owned was a Compaq.  It was terrible.  I've since had extremely biast oppinions against any computer they make, even after they were bought out by Hewlett-Packard.

[Super_X]

o dell not my choice of laptop but it still works

Of course it does.  I've been a technical assistant in my school district for four years.  I've seen a lot of new laptops bought.  I've done the builds on about half of them.

I assure you that Dell laptops "still work."  They're actualy some of the best I've seen.  We've bought DakTech, HP, IBM, Compaq and Gateway.

That said, I'd like to hear any valid, supporting reason you have for your silly conclusion.

i prefer compaq

One of the first PC's my family owned was a Compaq.  It was terrible.  I've since had extremely biast oppinions against any computer they make, even after they were bought out by Hewlett-Packard.

HP's no better than Compaq.

I like Dell's service plan; the only thing I'd buy from them is a laptop, though.

[Sidoh]

HP's no better than Compaq.

I like Dell's service plan; the only thing I'd buy from them is a laptop, though.

Haha.  I've never owned an HP machine, but the few laptops I've worked on made by them were good.

Yeah, I think I'd agree with that.  I like building my own PC's for obvious reasons, but I think it'd be foolish to attempt the same with a laptop, especially given my experience with the required skills to do the same for a laptop.

[Super_X]

HP's no better than Compaq.

I like Dell's service plan; the only thing I'd buy from them is a laptop, though.

Haha.  I've never owned an HP machine, but the few laptops I've worked on made by them were good.

Yeah, I think I'd agree with that.  I like building my own PC's for obvious reasons, but I think it'd be foolish to attempt the same with a laptop, especially given my experience with the required skills to do the same for a laptop.

It takes too much fanesse and skill to make a laptop.
I'm shit out of luck.

[Ergot]

Wow.

[Blaze]

Hrm, why must you make me buy a new laptop?  Thanks asshole.

[Newby]

Compaq is fucking garbage. Desktop and laptop.

[MyndFyre]

OS: Genuine Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (I'll probably wipe this and install Slackware/XP Pro)

No need to wipe MCE, it's XP Pro with a couple extra bells.

[Sidoh]

No need to wipe MCE, it's XP Pro with a couple extra bells.

Oh, nice!

That's actually what I originally thought, but then I noticed that it was more money to have XP Pro installed in place of MCE.

[dark_drake]

One of the first PC's my family owned was a Compaq.  It was terrible.  I've since had extremely biast oppinions against any computer they make, even after they were bought out by Hewlett-Packard.

That exactly what happened with my family's first computer, and it's exactly how I feel about Compaq.

EDIT: Sidoh passed my test.

[Sidoh]

One of the first PC's my family owned was a Compaq.  It was terrible.  I've since had extremely biast oppinions against any computer they make, even after they were bought out by Hewlett-Packard.

That exactly what happened with my family's first computer, and it's exactly how I feel about Compaq.

I AM NOT BIGAZNDADDY. -_-

Haha, just kidding.

[dark_drake]

I AM NOT BIGAZNDADDY. -_-

I was just testing you.

[rabbit]

Gateway laptops are garbage, I've had nothing but bad experiences with them, but their desktops are alright.  I'd like to buy all my own stuff and make one, as opposed to buying stock with upgrades, but I just don't have the money :\

[BigAznDaddy]

Compaq is fucking garbage. Desktop and laptop.

ahh whatever

thats why you make your own

[Sidoh]

Gateway laptops are garbage, I've had nothing but bad experiences with them, but their desktops are alright.  I'd like to buy all my own stuff and make one, as opposed to buying stock with upgrades, but I just don't have the money :\

We've only had two Gateway laptops come through that I can think of at the moment, but they both seemed pretty nice.  I only used them to do the base OS install, which, of course, isn't a very good representation of their reliability.

ahh whatever

thats why you make your own

I'm still waiting to hear your reasoning.

[rabbit]

My dad's Gateway has (so far) needed the battery replaced twice, the charger replaced, the screen-clips replace, and the screen hinges fixed.  It is less than a year old.

My ex's Gateway needed the battery replaced, the DVD drive fixed, the screen hinges fixed, and the charger replaced.  Also less than a year old.

Both were different models.  Both suck at life.

[Nate]

HP bought Compaq awhile ago, like 2-3 years.

[Sidoh]

My dad's Gateway has (so far) needed the battery replaced twice, the charger replaced, the screen-clips replace, and the screen hinges fixed.  It is less than a year old.

Wow, that's terrible.  I'd be curious to hear reviews from other customers who own the same model.  I haven't heard any complaints from either of the two teachers using the gateway laptops, but they're used pretty lightly.

My ex's Gateway needed the battery replaced, the DVD drive fixed, the screen hinges fixed, and the charger replaced.  Also less than a year old.

Heesh... :|

Both were different models.  Both suck at life.

Heesh... :|

HP bought Compaq awhile ago, like 2-3 years.

Yeah, I know.

[...] even after they were bought out by Hewlett-Packard.

[Super_X]

My dad's Gateway has (so far) needed the battery replaced twice, the charger replaced, the screen-clips replace, and the screen hinges fixed.  It is less than a year old.

My ex's Gateway needed the battery replaced, the DVD drive fixed, the screen hinges fixed, and the charger replaced.  Also less than a year old.

Both were different models.  Both suck at life.

I'll bet that's why they replaced the battery on both of them.

[BigAznDaddy]

I'm still waiting to hear your reasoning.

well if you  make your own computer you cant blame the company's things for having a crappy computer

[Sidoh]

I'll bet that's why they replaced the battery on both of them.

When you have a machine that unreliable in such a short amount of time, you begin to wonder if it was worth the price, even given the limited time warranty.

well if you  make your own computer you cant blame the company's things for having a crappy computer

I'm talking about you prefering Compaq over Dell.

[BigAznDaddy]

I'm talking about you prefering Compaq over Dell.

i have no clue what i am talking about so ignore me......

[Sidoh]

i have no clue what i am talking about so ignore me......

I'm going to poison you with your own fecies.

Haha, just kidding.  I'll cut it out with the strange death threats.  I wouldn't want to transcend a fun, joking attitude.

Or would I? ...

[Newby]

I'm talking about you prefering Compaq over Dell.

i have no clue what i am talking about so ignore me......

You are Asian, so that's a given.

[Joe]

Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo are basically the Pentium 5 under a nice, confusing name, right?

[Sidoh]

Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo are basically the Pentium 5 under a nice, confusing name, right?

Intel Core Duo is a dual core processor; Core Solo isn't, obviously.

I don't know if there were major architectural differences in the different families of pentium processors, but there were Pentium 4 dual core processors out months ago.  I don't necessarily think they could be called "Pentium 5", but I could be wrong.

[AntiVirus]

I like the way that laptop looks.   That's as much as I can say about this laptop.

And P.S.
We have a Compaq laptop and it's great.. I think you guys are just special.

[Super_X]

I'll bet that's why they replaced the battery on both of them.

When you have a machine that unreliable in such a short amount of time, you begin to wonder if it was worth the price, even given the limited time warranty.

You seem to have missed my joke; Rabbit said they sucked at life, and I just assumed since it was inanimate it would be battery life. Get it, sweety? <3

[Sidoh]

I like the way that laptop looks.   That's as much as I can say about this laptop.

O_o

[AntiVirus]

I like the way that laptop looks.   That's as much as I can say about this laptop.

O_o

Lmao.

[Sidoh]

Mind explaining what you meant? -_-

[deadly7]

Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo are basically the Pentium 5 under a nice, confusing name, right?

No.

[skip]

Yeah. I am still using a Dell notebook that is about 5 years old; still in near perfect conditions.

I'm too poor to afford a new computer .

[MyndFyre]

I think when my current notebook's warranty expires I'm going to set it up as a server somewhere and then pick up one of those 12" Toshiba tablets.

[Sidoh]

Just got it today!

I really like it.  The screen is huge! O_O

There's a hotel right next to my house.  I think the tool that set up its wireless network was pretty stupid -- he didn't enable WEP.  Free intarweb for me!  I'm downloading the WoW patch across it as I post this.  I don't know if it's common for smaller hotels (that don't buy the software that requires validation or something similar to prove that you've paid a fee) to leave WEP disabled, but I'm not going to complain!

I'll have to update this after I play WoW.  My 1.5 year old computer can play it with the graphics cranked @ a pseudo-stable 30 FPS (the video card is newer; it's a NVidia 6800 GT -- this laptop has a 7800 Go), so it'll be interesting to see the performance difference.

[zorm]

You never got back to us on the update, pssh!

So I just recently got a laptop, its very nice, its a Toshiba Tecra A7-S717.
Specs are
Intel Core Duo T2400 (1.8Ghz)
Intel 10/100/1000 + Intel Wireless A/B/G
DVD Super multi drive
15.4" LCD
Came with 512MB PC4200 memory, replaced with 2GB PC5300
Came with 80GB 5400RPM SATA drive, replaced with 80GB 7200RPM SATA drive
Only semi-downside is the built in Intel graphics, but oh well, I'm not planning on any heavy gaming.
Price: $1,236 before upgrades

[rabbit]

XVGA, WVGA, VGA, what?

[zorm]

WXGA