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Shout Box
Midnight: Just rented Rambo in HD from Video marketplace. Good flick.
[07/04-05:59pm]
Mintz: It's free: http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/07/03/monday-is-bungie-day.aspx
[07/03-02:56pm]
Mintz: They're never going to even charge for that map?
[07/03-01:56pm]
Midnight: Oh dear...
[07/03-11:49am]
EnragedGnome: Cold Storage aka Chill Out free on July 7th
[07/03-11:20am]
CynEater: You know what's already an awesome game? Strip poker with Lynne Webber
[07/02-07:56pm]
Slayer: September 12? I think.
[07/02-02:52pm]
Celery: Whats the release date on it?
[07/02-09:28am]
Slayer: The Force Unleashed is looking like it is going to be an awesome game!
[07/01-09:26pm]
Midnight: Interesting. I just learned the definition of an acquisition a few minutes ago.
[07/01-05:05pm]
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Search fatwallet.com for laptop deals. You can get a good DELL for well under $1000. You can even get DELL laptops that cost less than $500. Our Gateway with Centrino technology was less than $400 after rebates and is still doing fine.
By the way? Levino, yeah I've never heard of them, sells more laptops than Apple. Don't buy into the Apple hype.
The SONY laptop is a powerful computer. But, I'm guessing it's overkill for whatever you are going to be doing with it.
What are you going to do with the laptop?
Gaming? Don't expect to be satisfied with 3D gaming on a laptop. The graphics are low quality and logistically, it's just hard to game on a laptop. If I were going to get a laptop for gaming, I wouldn't be happy with anything less than a $3000 or $4000 laptop. Laptops are expensive to maintain and upgrade.
Microsoft Office/Email? Can easily be done on the $500.
Image/video editing? Can be done on the $500 with some performance hits. However, you are saving $1000.
If portability weren't an issue, I'd suggest building a desktop computer. CPU prices are amazingly cheap now. I'm thinking about upgrading and I don't even need a faster processor.
Tom's Hardware just did a field test:
The $500 Gaming PC cost only 63% of the System Builder Marathon’s “Low Cost” configuration’s current price, yet provides 76% its stock-speed performance and the same “overall” overclocked performance. That gives the overclocked $500 machine a huge 73% value advantage over the stock SBM system, and a significant 63% lead when both systems are overclocked.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-graphic-game,1907.html
I spent $2000 on a desktop computer when I entered college. At the time, it was great and it got me interested in the internet and video gaming and technology in general. However, looking back, I probably would have done just fine with a $800 and put the money somewhere else. $2000 is a lot of debt...especially when the computer is losing value every week.
We bought the sub-$400 laptop about 3 years ago and we still use it. It's been great for surfing the internet and using Microsoft Office. It'll even play Civ3 and 4. However, it doesn't play any 3d games that have come out in the last couple of years.
So, if portability really is an issue and you aren't interested in gaming, a $500 is probably a good deal for a laptop.
Bottomline: don't spend $1440 on this laptop.