Well... Just bought one of these...

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:00 am

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.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:44 am

It's BIG (wide). Full numpad looks nice, though.

AhamkarA DTM · Post by **AhamkarA DTM** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:00 pm

Nice comp I should b getting one for school real soon I hope.

*Edited for Idiocy*

Gryphon · Post by **Gryphon** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:58 pm

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.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:12 pm

Aham, was that supposed to go in this thread?

AhamkarA DTM · Post by **AhamkarA DTM** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:59 pm

Oh For the love of god yes!!!

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:18 am

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.*

Gryphon · Post by **Gryphon** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:00 am

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.

XMEN Iceman · Post by **XMEN Iceman** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:09 am

Did you get a good deal on the software Gryph? Where?
I am thinking about buying the 64-bit version.

Thanks!

Gryphon · Post by **Gryphon** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:17 am

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.

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:53 pm

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.