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10-10-2003, 09:02 AM
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|  New laptop... Oh...the benfits of having a family member work for an electrical retailer  (My dad works for Siemens)I will be getting this laptop delivered on 1st November or just after: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D 1840 Laptop Intel Pentium 4 3.0GhZ with 'HT' technology 1024MB DDR SDRAM 80GB Integrated DVD+RW ATI Radeon 9600 128MB 15.4" Screen @ 1280x800 2 Hours battery life Also includes: XP Home, Word 2002, Works 7 + the other standard kind of apps. To the lovely sum of £1000!!!! Now, even i can see this is a seriously good deal. Two quick questions tho - Is HT Technology useful? And also, are/is this laptop going to be good for gaming on?? tom@meangasoline.co.uk | RIP Zoltan  Canon 350d | 50 F/1.8 Mk II | 70-200 F/4 L | 1Gb Sandisk Ultra III Last edited by TomWilko; 10-10-2003 at 09:05 AM.. |
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10-10-2003, 09:19 AM
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| Aye, that is the downside - but wherever i go i have a power point to plug it into so its not really a problem  2 Hours mobile would be more than plenty for me. tom@meangasoline.co.uk | RIP Zoltan Canon 350d | 50 F/1.8 Mk II | 70-200 F/4 L | 1Gb Sandisk Ultra III |
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11-10-2003, 05:27 PM
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| If they quoted 2 hours on the spec sheet then the battery will be much shorter than that when doing anything taxing. Mine powerbook has a quoted time of 5 hours, and can manage about 4 when doing basic mp3s or text, and will drop to about 2hours when playing games The Caped Crusader :-) |
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11-10-2003, 05:50 PM
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 | rather spangly tom, any chance of gettin me 1?   joga bonito www.darkmattercommunity.com - sign up for our Gow 1&2 and CoD4 team add me : http://twitter.com/russgroves my blog : http://russellgroves.blogspot.com |
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11-10-2003, 08:38 PM
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| Power supply will not be a problem as it will either be plugged into a power socket round a friends house, at UNI or at my house Thanks for the forewarning tho!It includes a wireless port 802.11b adaptor. Does this mean if i get a wirelss connector for my base PC i will be able to surf the internet and play games from a different room wireless??
You do not know how much i would like to get like 20 of these stocked in! (serious profit!!) Thing is its a company scheme where its one pc to one employee only. This is due to government Tax laws! Your best bet would be to go for a career with Siemens tom@meangasoline.co.uk | RIP Zoltan Canon 350d | 50 F/1.8 Mk II | 70-200 F/4 L | 1Gb Sandisk Ultra III |
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12-10-2003, 10:20 AM
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12-10-2003, 01:10 PM
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| Nice laptop ... I wanna get me a laptop but can't afford it and don't wanna go 2nd hand as by the time you've got to an average spec (600Mhz+) you might as well spend like another 100 quid and get a 1.2Ghz Celeron Laptop! G4 PowerMac - Tiger 10.4 - 512MB RAM MacBook - 2Ghz - 1GB RAM - 120GB HDD Rotel RC970BX | DBX DriveRack |2x Rotel RB850 B&W DM640i | Velodyne 1512 |
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12-10-2003, 05:50 PM
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| Nice laptop although i'd reccomend getting a 2nd battery unit to go in the place of the CD Drive or Floppy Drive. What's the point in having a PORTABLE computer if you can't use it without plugging it into the wall?  Ben |
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Is it possible tho to buy another battery just in incase i ever found myself in a situation where i needed one?? tom@meangasoline.co.uk | RIP Zoltan Canon 350d | 50 F/1.8 Mk II | 70-200 F/4 L | 1Gb Sandisk Ultra III |
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| sounds like a nice lappy dude. The only downside might be the lack of ability to update your GFX drivers. I am gaming on a laptop and becuase the screens drivers are built into the gfx card drivers, ATI dont do the updates, the lappy makers do, the people that made my lappy havnt updated ever  but you may be lucky.... you might be on a roll! |
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