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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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Quote: Well, spending $300 would mean I could only spend $1000 on a laptop just before heading out to college My laptop cost well under $1000. And it's good enough to run Halo CE. And it can run Ubuntu, which my desktop is giving me trouble with.
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jhuuskon
Member #302
April 2000
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This is kind of fun. I'm writing this post on a 200mhz Pentium Pro -based IBM desktop because the Dr.Frankenstein's PC i built for my parents just had its HD die. It died rather uneventfully. Just a bluescreen and subsequent failure to boot. You don't deserve my sig. |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Quote: And it can run Ubuntu, which my desktop is giving me trouble with. You sure? APM/ACPI works, sound, CPU throttling, wifi, special keyboard functions, etc? Not many laptops "just work" with Linux. |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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Well, the Live CD works, anyway.
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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With all those features? |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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I don't know. I've never heard of those features. Well, maybe I have, but if I have I don't know that they are the things I've heard of.
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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ACPI/APM/CPU Throttling = suspend/hibernate and the ability for your laptop to change the CPU speed dynamically so you actually get more than an hour out of your battery. Wifi = wireless. Special keyboard functions = the function keys that allow you to change volume/brightness/etc. I sincerely hope you know the rest of the stuff I listed. |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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What rest of the stuff you listed? Sound?
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Basically, yeah. |
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Matt Smith
Member #783
November 2000
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For cheapie cheapness, just get a second hand mobo from ebay. Lots of people are upgrading from P4 at the moment. Of course, you can't blame them when the C2D/Q is so nice, but if you just want it to work again then why not? If you are still going to blow your wad on a desktop, try and get an 8800. even the 320MB GTS has 3x as many shaders as an 8600 |
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relpatseht
Member #5,034
September 2004
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In the end, I went with a laptop. I bought a 17" Dell Inspirion with a 2ghz Core 2, 2GB of ram, a GeForce 8400 (I just didn't have the money for the second upgrade of the 8600), and probably a few other significant specs I forgot. My parents paid for $1000 and I found a $475 coupon on slickdeals, so I only had to pay $100, which is alright considering that I sold the parts off of my old machine for just over that. Thus, savings were not reduced. The thing should be here by then end of this month, so only about a week left on this 300mhz monstrosity. The fun wears off, jhuuskon. Although, I have to say, this thing is performing surprisingly well. The text shows up at almost the same speed I type it and the pages load just over my reading speed. It all works out in the end.
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HoHo
Member #4,534
April 2004
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Quote: If you are still going to blow your wad on a desktop, try and get an 8800. In about a month there will be 8800GT that should be roughly equal to GTX (if memory bandwidth is not limiting) but for the price of 8800GTS. [edit] __________ |
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