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Well... Just bought one of these...
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:00 am
by XMEN Ashaman DTM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834280004
It's actually my very first non-work laptop!
Looks promising, and the reviews so far look good.
I'll know more in a couple of days.
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:44 am
by XMEN Gambit
It's BIG (wide). Full numpad looks nice, though.
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:00 pm
by AhamkarA DTM
Nice comp I should b getting one for school real soon I hope.
*Edited for Idiocy*
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:58 pm
by Gryphon
Nice price
My father has an HP without the numpad and I asked him what he didn't like about the computer and he said just that. I got a HP with a full keyboard and love it compared to using his.
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:12 pm
by XMEN Gambit
Aham, was that supposed to go in
this thread?
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:59 pm
by AhamkarA DTM
Oh For the love of god yes!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:18 am
by XMEN Ashaman DTM
ROFL! I take it it was something suitably out of place?
It is a
really nice laptop! I'm getting used to the keyboard, but it's not too hard. I'll probably get a full-sized keyboard for it anyways; I can type a LOT faster. Don't have any complaints about the laptop so far.
But man does Vista load
slow!!! My wife and I cooked, ate, and cleaned up after our dinner tonight. And the dang thing was still "Loading Windows Vista for the first time". I suppose once Vista has gone through a couple of service packs, I'll try it out.
So I took my XP disk and did a format and install.
It runs
real smooth now.
*EDIT: forgot to mention that this will also get linux.*
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:00 am
by Gryphon
I have found that Vista boots faster than XP for me on my laptop and 3 different desktops. I have gone all Vista, I like it.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:09 am
by XMEN Iceman
Did you get a good deal on the software Gryph? Where?
I am thinking about buying the 64-bit version.
Thanks!
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:17 am
by Gryphon
The guys here at work have friends at MS who get them for $50 a piece for full install ultimate version from the Microsoft store, they got enough for our homes and the office. I got 4 for myself.
If you buy the retail box, it comes with both 32bit and 64bit versions in the box. I think Newegg has an OEM version where you actually have to decide on 64 or 32.
There a couple of annoyances but I live with them, like the allow/deny thing, you get used to it after a while and running into that prompt lessens drastically once you are done messing with setting things up and are into normal every day use.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:53 pm
by XMEN Ashaman DTM
I figure if I really need to get off of XP, I'll be able to in a couple of years when Microsoft has had a bit of time to refine their software.