amazing laptop

 

http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=31771&catid=2

*drool*

Hey Computer Ruler, How's your 4870 going by the way? I lot that thread from ages ago and never ended up seeing the outcome.

windows 7 fixes everything 

I've never understood how the heck you can game with a laptop... I mean, I can almost see it with a trackpoint (I love those things) but a touchpad would take a lot of practice. When I wanted to game with my laptop (before I upgraded my desktop) I always hooked up a wireless mouse. Actually, come to think of it, I used the wireless mouse even for desktop stuff... I've never realyl liked touchpads.

I miss the trackpoint 

I still think I like the Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q850 better, of course I'm partial to the NVidia card over the ATI.

I've never understood how the heck you can game with a laptop... I mean, I can almost see it with a trackpoint (I love those things) but a touchpad would take a lot of practice. When I wanted to game with my laptop (before I upgraded my desktop) I always hooked up a wireless mouse. Actually, come to think of it, I used the wireless mouse even for desktop stuff... I've never realyl liked touchpads.

I miss the trackpoint 

I really have no choice but to run a high end laptop when I'm working in camp, I would go crazy being out of town for months with no games - and dragging a desktop out of town is out of the question.  I always use a mouse and disable the touch pad though, I just prefer a mouse.  To be honest I was never that fond of the trackpoint either.

well, I like mice better then the trackpoint, but I managed with the trackpoint. now with the touchpad I find myself scrolling when I don't want to, because some goof decided, "hey, let's make the corners of the touchpad scroll! and while we're at it, let's not mark the actual definition of side!" with the trackpoint, you just angle the stick where you want.

In fact, manufacturers prefer the trackpoint, too. saves on "real estate" for the keyboard (although, that's not really all that important... the screen pretty much decides the size of the laptop) the only reason it's not available is because of patent issues.

http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=31771&catid=2

holy crap, me want!!

I've never understood how the heck you can game with a laptop... I mean, I can almost see it with a trackpoint (I love those things) but a touchpad would take a lot of practice.

Sniping in modern warfare 2, tf2, and left 4 dead 2 is alot easier for me with a touch pad.

Whatdyasay we combine our collective buying power of the CH members and order about 1000 (or more) of these beauties and get them to give us a price of about $200.00 a pop? truenorth If your going to dream you might as well dream big!

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That laptop is for nothing.

That laptop is for nothing.

what? what do you mean?

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with a starting price of $1,645

It's cheap. About the same price as my desktop.

$1,645 is cheap. OK then. this is news to me.

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Yes but you see I live in Ireland where 1TB HDDs in shops are about €100 / ~$140

Technology is a bit on the slow end here.....staying on CH keeps me up to date - I usually read stuff in Irish magazines about 2 months after I've read them on here. I just think "job possibility?"

Yes but you see I live in Ireland where 1TB HDDs in shops are about €100 / ~$140

Technology is a bit on the slow end here.....staying on CH keeps me up to date - I usually read stuff in Irish magazines about 2 months after I've read them on here. I just think "job possibility?"

I think a good 1TB HDD in America goes from around 160-180 new. Depends on the retailer.

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Well, mine was 60 UK pounds online which was fairly cheap.

actually i often see that size HDD for under $90.00 at Fry's. truenorth

my 1.5TB drive was $119.97 

I've never understood how the heck you can game with a laptop... I mean, I can almost see it with a trackpoint (I love those things) but a touchpad would take a lot of practice. When I wanted to game with my laptop (before I upgraded my desktop) I always hooked up a wireless mouse. Actually, come to think of it, I used the wireless mouse even for desktop stuff... I've never realyl liked touchpads.

I miss the trackpoint 

I always game with my track pad Easy peesy

I always game with my track pad Easy peesy

I write object hierarchies involving abstract generic base classes being derived from in multiple classes which implement other interfaces so that I can treat various objects polymorphically and yet get widely different behaviour from them based on their actual type by implementing the abstract functions defined in the abstract class and where necessary overriding those concrete functions whose behaviour is not what the derived classes functionality requires.

C#. Easy peesy.

I write object hierarchies involving abstract generic base classes being derived from in multiple classes which implement other interfaces so that I can treat various objects polymorphically and yet get widely different behaviour from them based on their actual type by implementing the abstract functions defined in the abstract class and where necessary overriding those concrete functions whose behaviour is not what the derived classes functionality requires.

C#. Easy peesy.

Your just trying to look smart, when your not 

I really have no choice but to run a high end laptop when I'm working in camp, I would go crazy being out of town for months with no games

I used to travel a lot, staying in motels rather than camps, but laptop games kept me from climbing the walls at night when on the road.  Laptops aren't the best for gaming, but if you are on the road, they are much better than nothing.  And I always had a wired mouse.

Your just trying to look smart, when your not 

Thomas, you're a 15 year old newbie. I have been reading a lot of dumb posts by you recently. I suggest you clean up your act fast.

Thomas, you're a 15 year old newbie. I have been reading a lot of dumb posts by you recently. I suggest you clean up your act fast.

Salman trout. its called a joke. my posts are legit and i wouldnt post if i didnt know what i was on about. everyone was a newbie once. i would appreciate if this 'arguing' stops here.

Salman trout. its called a joke.

If that was a joke then I don't see why you think it was funny.

my posts are legit and i wouldnt post if i didnt know what i was on about.

The evidence suggests otherwise.

everyone was a newbie once.

You are a newbie here and your posts suggest that you have not yet "got" what this forum is about.

i would appreciate if this 'arguing' stops here.

You have been told how to make that happen.


Well, you know how to make that happen.