I ordered my laptop from Dell friday night and just thought I'd post about it since I have nothing else to do. It's nothing fancy or "uber" but it's decent. Here are the specs:
XPS M140
XPS M140,Intel Pentium M Processor 740 (1.73GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB for any of you tech people)
14.1 inch WXGA LCD Panel (widescreen)
512MB, Shared DDR2,533MHZ 1 Dimm (upgradable up to 2GB)
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900
60GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA Hard Drive
8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Integrated High Definition Audio
That's pretty much the essentials. Like I said, nothing fancy, but it'll do what I need it to do well. I am getting it for college as a graduation present. I could also do some light gaming if I wanted, but my PC will be for any of that. Although I don't do much gaming at all anymore. Still, I am absolutely dying to get it and play with it a bit. It'll be my first actual notebook. (other than the POS Compaq LTE 5300 I have and have never used.)
sounds like a cool laptop. seems like everyone has been getting laptops as graduation presents lately cause i think mitch got a laptop from his grand parents as a graduation present.
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Yeah, I prefer the AMD processor too(that's what I have in my pc), but it wasn't an option for this model. And for the price I got this one at, it was a really good deal. Especially since it is one of the newer XPS models. But in my opinion, the Pentium is the next best thing. As for celeron, it shouldn't even be a valid processor. I had planned on buying this one myself, but my parents insisted they would get it for me for graduation since I was getting it for college. They absolutely would not let me buy it. lol. Now all I have to do is get some software I'll need for my CAD classes.
Well on mine I've gotta one day take it have the optical drive looked at because the one they replace my old one with still doesn't work right. I haven't put a CD much less a DVD in the drive since March. Well I've made my mind up that if Circuit City doesn't do a good job this time, that I'll use this one for whatever, and I'm going to put back $6000.00 to buy a better laptop, and go ahead and get a new desktop system alongside simply because my desktop is starting to fall behind in technology, and I'm not willing to put more money in it for upgrades.
I'll give my desktop to Dad, and I'll use this laptop for stuff at school, but my new laptop will be my party machine .
That's good they gave you 512 MB by only one dimm because I have two 256 dimms darn it .
Part of the reason I bought the model I did was because I could burn DVDs and even have the ability to burn double layer DVDs, but well I haven't been able to do that since October , well enough about my laptop. How well is your's doing?
Well, here's the story.....I ordered my laptop oh, sorry, "notebook" from Dell on Friday April 28th. Saturday and Sunday, nothing happened because it was the weekend and Dell is closed. Monday, the production took off. It went through Kitting(getting all the parts together) Building, and Testing all while I was at school. Then it went to boxing. I'm like, "Sweet! it's getting boxed up and it'll be shipped out by tomorrow and I'll probably get it the day after it ships out since it's in Nashville." This is on May 1st. Wrong. Apparently, Dell builds their Notebook computers in Malaysia now. Sooo, while the status says "Boxing" it is really on a plane flying over the ocean to Nashville where it will finally be shipped to me. It's only been two business days if you don't count the day I ordered it since I ordered it, but I'm anticipating it so badly, that it feels like it's been a week. It sucks. But, on Dell's website, it says that it takes about 3 business days to get from Malaysia to Nashville, so yesterday was one, today is two and tomorrow is three, so hopefully tomorrow they will get it at Nashville, ship it out either tomorrow or Thursday, then I will get it either Thursday or Friday, hopefully anyway. I would like to have it by friday before I go out of town for the weekend and not get it until Sunday.
Hopefully it will come in by then, and you can get used to it over the weekend. I know how that feels, the anticipation driving you crazy. Yeah I know all about that . However, I will go back to something that Mr. Spock said off of Star Trek.
Sometimes the wanting is greater than the having. It kinda goes to that, but that's not a direct quote.
Sweet! My laptop has reached Nashville from Malaysia, and is now on it's way to my local carrier, which should be Louisville. So I should get it tomorrow after school. Too bad I have to work.....but I'm off at six so it's all good! I'm so excited, but I am just happy it is definately on its way to me, and within a few hours of me, lol.
Well that's good, hope it ends up working well. By the way if you don't mind my asking, does it have the ability to go wireless, or will you have to buy a wireless network card?
Well, on the Dell website, it says it gets 4-6 hours on a 6 cell lithium ion battery which is what I'm getting, but I don't know yet. I'll let you know once I get it and get a full charge in.
Yeah true, but hey I love getting in touch with my inner nerd... yeah
Well my laptop will get two and half hours tops, but that's because I'm running the AMD Athlon 64 in mine, and well it's more of a desktop processor and well it sucks the power so I only go on battery when I have to .
Well, I got my laptop yesterday right on time. I would've posted about it but I was setting it up. I'm actually on it right now. I love it. I was worried tha tthe screen would be too small, but it's perfect. So far from how long I've worked on it with just the battery, it's going about the rate it should to get about 4 and a half hours of use. Pretty good. But yeah, I love this thing. Anyways, I'm at school so I'm going to make good use of my time.
Well that's a pretty good battery life. The next laptop I get, I am so going to get one that's got a decent battery life.
You know I've got to share this, well if you all have read my last post in the World's [Soon] to be Longest Random Thread then you probably know how I mentioned some joke/prank software. Now don't worry I'm not planning on pranking any of you, but well my mother's husband [El Dumba**] Mike has an old computer made back when dinosaurs wondered the Earth. Well all of this prank stuff will work on that computer so I'm thinking of messing with his mind a little bit...you know torture him with some of it, and make him think that his little computer is having an acid trip or something of the like . Now I know it's a little bit mischevious, but well compared to the torture he's given me over the years, I think that a little bit of payback is in order for him .
Question: Should I do this, or turn the other cheek? I mean I could bore you guys for hours with the stuff he's done to me over the past decade.
Well, if you DO do that, make sure you get away with it.
Personally, I'd use the Replace Keys program and the one that clicks on the Start button every 45 seconds. But that's just me. That's the safe way, at least.
Yeah I was thinking of doing those, and the clipit one where clipit pops up every minute or so and gives a useless piece of info. I.E. Did you know that if you move your mouse that the cursor moves on the screen.
Oh, and getting away with it is easy because the computer is in my room at mom's since there's no other rooms with room in them, and well I'll just do it late at night and set it up so that the next time he boots the machine, it'll rock his little world and think that Satan has paid his computer a visit. The only problem is that he'll call me up to fix it, and I'll have to give him some Heywood Jablomey reason for why his computer is tripping .
Well, then you could be like, "Oh crap, you're computer's got that new virus that's been going around. We're gonna have to delete your hard drive. Fortunately for you, though, I always have my anti-virus software with me. I'll just install it now." (Use that opportunity to put a CD into his disc drive that actually contains more of those pranks.)
The only flaw with that plan is that he doesn't have internet access, and mainly uses it for a copy of Encarta CD-ROM editon...I know a new level of pathetic, but I could just blame it as a random Windows 98 error, and 'fix' it since he knows nothing about computers except for the fact that Windows has a higher intelligence than he does .
I can beat that. My grandpa's computer is so old that it doesn't have any images. Only text.
Yep, that's right. The screen has a dark-green background and has white text that appears on it. It doesn't even have a mouse. I mean, what would you click on? And he only uses it to write poetry. Here's the scary thing, though......it has internet access.
Which ones do you think? The creepy ones, of course. Although I have to give them some credit. My good grandparents don't even have a computer.
The internet on that clunky old thing is pure text. You have to type in that you want to access the internet, and then you type where you want to go, yada yada yada. There are still some text-only websites out there, but for sites like this one, where graphics and images play a big part, you get the actual text and the url for the image (where it's hosted, it's file name, etc.).
Wow, now that is...how can I say it without being rude. OMFG that is so horrible, I'd rather not have a computer than have a clunker like that, ah my mind is overloading at that...ahhhhhhhhhhh
Window Blue Screen of Death Please hit spacebar to resume Kaney
There is a fight between two wolves going on inside everyone. One stands for all good things and the other, all that is evil. Which one will win? The one that you feed.
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, well enough about my laptop. How well is your's doing?
