New LapTop Coming ... !!!

I finally got around to getting a new LapTop to replace the P4 3.4 HT Laptop I have which is quite long in the tooth. It still run's and is in great shape but the 1 I'm getting should run circles around it ... :icon_santa:

Sager 9261 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Desktop Replacement Gaming Notebook
17" WSXGA+ Matte Display w/ Wide Viewing Angle (1680 x 1050)
Intel® Core 2Quad™ GO Stepping | Q6700 | 8MB Cache | 2.66GHz | 1.066MHz FSB
Arctic Silver 5 High Performance Thermal Compound
4GB 800MHz DDR2 Memory (2 Modules)
nVidia GeForce 8700M GT w/512MB
100GB | 7200 RPM | SATA
Add 2nd 100GB | 7200 RPM | SATA-150 HDD
8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL MULTI DRIVE W/ SOFTWARE
Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN / 802.11N
Built in 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet / LAN Network Card
Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64/Bit
1.3M Digital Video Camera
Free Notebook Carrying Case
Built-In Bluetooth Module
Sager 2 Year Warranty, Lifetime Tech Support

Sub Total$3,112.73
Discounts$0.00
Tax$0.00
Shipping$42.86
Final Total$3,155.59

Sweet!!!!!!

Holy Crap... You could make several quad desktops for that price... Regardless, that is one sweet laptop... Congrats and I am super jealous!!!

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Originally Posted by Beerknurd

Holy Crap... You could make several quad desktops for that price... Regardless, that is one sweet laptop... Congrats and I am super jealous!!!

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Yes, I know only to well, but it is a concession I have to make to the little woman if I want a PC in the living room so I can monitor the rest of the Farm while watching TV with her ... :icon_rolleyes:

Oh yeah.... those "little woman" things have some very steep costs!!! :icon_rolleyes:

But, I'm learning to live with the vista powered quad. After all, it beats the hell out of *no* quad at all. :icon_mrgreen:

Anyway, congrats on the lappy!!! :)

Eek!! Vista... I would slap XP on that soooo fast... Are there any benefits to running Vista over XP with a quad core??

ya......... it's the wife's machine that I get to use the other 3 cores on. But I don't get to change it around... the way it come from the store is the way it stays, or my name is mud and no more computer. So it runs 3 instances of d2ol just marvy. Much better score than if I wasn't running the 3 cores at all. :icon_mrgreen:

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Are there any benefits to running Vista over XP with a quad core??

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None at all from what I've read, in fact a whole lot of people are tanking the Vista OS that their PC's come with and installing XP, even some of the reviewers are doing the same thing.

I was fortunate enough to be able to have XP 64-Bit installed right from the Factory on the Laptop instead of Vista so I won't have to go through the hassle of getting rid of it as soon as I get it ... :)

You have to get the feeling that Vista is the "New Coke" of Microsoft when the factories begin giving the option of having XP installed.

I don't think any of the Custom Builders ever stopped giving the Option to install XP over Vista, if you buy 1 over the Counter your probably going to get Vista though as all the Major (HP - Dell etc) Builders install it automatically ... :icon_rolleyes: ... As much as Billy Bob would like to shove Vista down every ones throat it just ain't happening so far. A lot of people are refusing to have anything to do with it and Billy Bob needs to go back to the Drawing Board & come up with a better OS than Vista is.

The trouble with Microsoft is that they seem to think bigger is better so they keep bloating these OS's up to where every time 1 comes out you have to (or probably should) get a faster system to keep up with all the bloat.

As far as I'm concerned they will have to pry my copies of XP Pro from my Cold Dead Hands ... :icon_lol: ... before I give into running Vista, it has nothing that I'm even remotely interested in ... :icon_mad: