New laptop

[Colonel Mitch]

Just realsied tho ive told most of you about this i didnt post it and chalex asked about it.

New laptop is here: http://www.btotech.com/product.asp?p...s%5Fg73jh%2Da1

Arriving tomorrow morning

Core i7 720 quad, 1.6Ghz - 2.8 Ghz turboboost (2.9Ghz auto overclocked)
8Gb DDR3 ram
1TB 7200 RPM HDD
ATi 5870M 1GB DDR5 Graphics
Full HD LED screen
Blu-ray

Watch this quick vid from asus for the awesomeness

[Chalex4]

Looks crazy good. Not exactly the most portable thing, but it's probably more powerful than my big PC lol.

[Calneon]

Those videos mean crap, but yeah it could be very nice. I'm very happy with mine though for half the price of that, plays all games on low/medium and is a lot lighter to move around I bet :P.

[Colonel Mitch]

Those videos mean crap, but yeah it could be very nice. I'm very happy with mine though for half the price of that, plays all games on low/medium and is a lot lighter to move around I bet :P.

Im sued to having a big laptop so its all good.

Also i just linked that vid for the awesomeness and the cooling demo.

I did alot of research first before ordering xD

[Colonel Mitch]

To quote C&C..... Reinforcements have arrived.

Came home from lunch today to find this waiting for me














Havent instaled any games on it yet as its going to be reformatted.

But the speakers are pretty good

Burning backup dvds now before the reformat to vista =]

Also goin to see if i can setup the 2 hdds as software based raid 0, tho i dont think windows is happy to install on a software striped drive

[nikoli]

hom nom nom 1 question can it play crysis?

[Colonel Mitch]

hom nom nom 1 question can it play crysis?

Yes.

[Calneon]

Burning backup dvds now before the reformat to vista =]

You're going from Windows 7 back to Vista?

[Colonel Mitch]

You're going from Windows 7 back to Vista?

Yep.

(Its commonly known that I cant stand 7 :P... Ive found ways to remove / restore features but itll take me about 6 hours to do it and im gunna be reformatting anyway so vista eternity x64 it is

[ez64]

Yep.

(Its commonly known that I cant stand 7 :P... Ive found ways to remove / restore features but itll take me about 6 hours to do it and im gunna be reformatting anyway so vista eternity x64 it is

Wuss

Wish I had a gaming laptop and not an industrial cooker for a pc

[Target]

Zomg the laptop looks win and that mouse look pretty awesome aswell

[Calneon]

I honestly thought Vista was a good OS, I was happy to use it for two years. When I upgraded to Windows 7 a few weeks ago, I fell in love with it (though maybe because my old Vista installation was already dying). I don't understand what you don't like about it.

[VoX]

Most likely for the same reasons as me, the taskbar. Seriously, how can something that makes me take longer to do stuff be better? Once I've got it somewhat how I like it, it's essentially Vista again =/.

[Colonel Mitch]

what vox said. my main quibble is the taskbar. i can make it almost the same as vista but the quick launch integration thing i hate and the stacking windows on it.

also wmp12 is gash and a pain to downgrade. and other than that its effectively identical to vista

btw iev had to re-update to 7 coz the software that works the buttons for keyboard lgithing, overclocking and screen settings is coded to detect OS and refuse to install if its not 7 which is most gay. Tried unpackign it and stuff but even the installer inside teh msi demands 7.

[Isphera]

That looks awesome. Very nice.