Post Your Pics!

Hey guys! Just thought I'd start a thread for everyone to post their pics of their laptops! All you have to do is post pictures of anything you want on your laptop. Make it look sexy or show everyone a complaint, design flaw, or damage. I think this will be fun if we get enough people! I'll start with my laptop which was damaged out of the factory.
Here is the hinge light that doesn't work on mine (getting fixed this week)

and here is the plastic piece that came broken (also getting fixed this week)

 

See my avatar for a pic of my notebook....

 

Looks good! How do you like it so far? And I've been meaning to ask someone how they like the fingerprint reader so how do you like your's?

 

So far I've had major problems and I got it on June 13th

These are the only problems I've had

-I accidently deleted the start menu (my fault) and had to do a full restore to get it back
-The speaker grilles have a habit of picking up dandruff and other rubbish
-The heat, OMG the heat
-A small fleck of dust under the screan in the bottom right
-I don't think kaspersky likes vista 64bit, if I try to log in too soon it gives me group logon crap
-The screen isn't the most accurate
-It's not consistant on what it defines as "sleep", if I do it through the start menu the lights flash like they should but if it goes to sleep on its own then they don't
-HP digital imaging monitor (for my printer) sometimes crashes when I log off and brings up an error message, I can ignore it and it will log off fine but it's a bit of an eyesore on the pretty blue log off screen
-I also think I need to clean out the heatsink now
-The battery is a bit odd too, it just leaves a gaping hole when you take it out
-The battery life is not much to gloat about

I wouldn't exactly call these major problems though

 

Yeah I can honestly say that I have noticed all of these minor issues also... except the start menu and dirt behind the screen... although I kind of want to know how to delete the start menu so I can do it to a friend at college... haha gotta go, my palms are burning haha

 

Let's keep these pictures down to no larger than 800x600. The app you use to upload them has a resizer, so please use it.

 

wowee haha thats a bright and expensive desk! haha If you don't mind me asking, what are the specs on the desktop?

 

Just updated my signature, but in the pic i have an 8800gt and E6420 @ 3.4 GHz.
And Padmé, i will. I would have except i didn't realize how big the pic was until after i posted it.
Laziness.

 

looks awesome! I love the case... How do you like the 8800gt?

 

some pics of my "specially-DELL-object"

Black custom painted Dell 9400, (painted with "real" high quality Car-lacquer).
new motherboard. GTX-GPU. T7600G CPU. LG-Philips True life screen......runs just perfect......XP of course


shot outdoor in full daylight and still the True life screen looks fantastic

 

It was a great card, except it only averaged 30 FPS on crysis with high settings. And with multiplayer thats not enough so i got the GTX 260 Core 216 and now im getting 55 FPS Avg.

 

Awesome Nitti, I just got my laptop almost two weeks ago, and I'm still kind of testing the waters as far as gameplay goes. I hope its really decent but I also have a ps3 for that... I just want it to be able to play cod4 and cod waw and maybe crysis - if I can find my old installation cd (I just moved and everything is in boxes). Any other games you would recommend for my specs? (in my signature)

 

Awesome Pics KSMB! That does looks sick... I like how it looks on that white table cloth, although I would feel like I had to wear a tux just to use that laptop! Haha but it is a good looking system, did you paint it yourself? Oh and I'd love to see what it looks like from behind. (no sick jokes now... haha)

 

Well you can play any game on that laptop with proper settings, you should be able to handle COD4/WAW perfectly fine, my 8600m was able to max cod4 at 1024x800. Assasins creed was a good game, battlefield 2 ( kinda old ), and if your into horror games you have to check out FEAR 2. It was awsome! There is a demo for it also, try that out.

 

http://www.largeimagehost.com/gallerys/untilted/QXrceh.html










Jua jua jua jua...

I love my XPS

 

May I ask why she's slightly less than put together? haha...

 

Can I post even though I do not have a Dell?

I have lots of ultra high resolution pics of various laptops that I have owned or reviewed and a few other miscellaneous tid bits like my arcade desk. Rather than spam up like 100 pictures I will just link my gallery and you can take a look if you want.

http://picasaweb.google.com/masakakoi

Its missing my older stuff like the C90S review and EEE review and I forgot where I even have those photo's hosted lol.

 

Awesome pics! But I need to know where to get the background you have in this picture... its so cool!
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nNcVLzdKf-c/SbpSbrfGwHI/AAAAAAAAAl8/54isRzKhojw/s1024/IMG_0474.JPG

 

That link is not working for me, but the only background I think I have on there is my Vista log in screen and its a space like nebula thing.

Its one of the included presets with Vista Logon Studio from stardock. I have an old version of it though, not sure if the new version is still free or includes that background.

 

Yeah thats the one I'm talking about... unfortunately I have vista ultimate and it does not include that background... at least not to my knowledge haha...

 

Its a 3rd party program it works on any vista version.

http://download.cnet.com/LogonStudio-Vista/3000-2072_4-10696252.html

 

My M1730.

And there is the scratch...

 

Decided to have a little photo shoot with the laptop this morning before work!

Let me know what you think ha ha.

I took the shots on my Nikon S52C I think they have came out pretty well considering it is just a compact camera!

 

These are the Girls:

More closeups later

Cin...

 

TimeWriter that is a sleek looking laptop, oh and don't worry, I would only consider that a mere scuff haha

 

Hooligan001:
I love the pictures! I'm going to take some new ones today and put them up... Although I do have a serious suggestion for everyone who still has those stickers from the factory labeling what type of processor or os you have... take them off haha. I just took mine off because one was crooked and boy does it look sleek, I don't feel like an advertising tool anymore - or a child with a toy. I'll post a quick thread on how to, it is really easy but if you are like me you want reassurance.

 

Looking good Cin! I could never guess what your favorite color is... haha

 

Here are some of my home office that I took this morning:

Shiny:






My Desk Clocks... Not wound up haha

 

HA!! Thanks
Red....me?? No way! hee hee

You took some nice photos, also!

I have my new camera now, so I will snap some newer photos later this evening or tomorrow...I have been somewhat of a slacker lately... Depends on my mood, I always say!

I need to incorporate my new Mice I recently got into the photo..THOSE are notebook mice..not the eeky ones that run around on 4 little legs!!! lulz.

Cin...

 

Haha I look forward to it Cin!

Oh and I posted a thread on how to take off stickers here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=407736
(this is my first how to so let me know how to improve but go easy one me haha)

 

My experience has been all right. I have 2 dead pixels on my screen as we speak and Dell refuses to fix that.

Apart from that, the laptop gets dirty and the speakers get junk in them easily, and it's overall a painful process to clean. Apart from that, nothing else, everything has been fine so far. I just hope I don't get dust behind my screen.

 

Aw man that's a bummer, how long have you had it? I'm actually getting my screen along with a few other parts replaced today between 1&2PM so I am not looking forward to watching some careless guy rip apart my baby haha... anyway you should still post up some pictures so we can see your setup and the damaged pixels! All the best!

 

Apparently my pictures are too large ... Had to make them 1/4 original size.

Dead pixels are in red circles since they're invisible to my camera.

Photos include my awesome neon lights for my laptop xD and MX Revolution.

 

That looks awesome fred2028! Where did you get that stand, who makes it, and would you mind posting some more pics of just the stand?

Oh and P.S. electronics always make liars of us, whether its the camera not showing something or it starts working when the technician touches it, they will always make us liars haha. - my theory

 

It's actually a fan xD or 3 fans ... each of them with a light.

Got it off eBay for like under $20 CAD? Works very well. Kinda loud, USB powered, but this USB plug has a USB port at the other end of it so basically it uses 0 USB ports. Also it cools my laptop down very well, I can finally Crysis on 1080p Enthusiast for extended periods of time.

 

Sweet! I just looked into it... I found some for like $9.00 but thats without shipping... so I just showed the technician out my front door, everything is fixed except one thing. So far it has cost dell one monitor, two plastic caps, two different people, and two frames. They just can't seem to get their sh*t together... The first service appt. they ordered the entire frame instead of the end caps, this time they ordered the end caps and the entire frame and the monitor when the parts I needed were the monitor, end caps, and the BOTTOM METAL PLATE. Haha, they just don't get what that means. They keep telling me, oh yes the bottom plastic! I keep saying no, its METAL. Thats what you get when you deal with people who you can barely understand. All in all, today was good and almost everything is fixed and they're shipping me the "right" part *hope* haha and letting me keep the old one, who knows, maybe I'll sell it on ebay.

 

Thanks I really like how they came out! I’m going to make one my avatar I think....

I totally agree on the stickers, I used to have a product red palm rest with only the Dell logo and no stickers it looked sweet! Had it replaced thought and they gave me a normal one... haven’t got round to removing them yet but I feel it might be a job for tonight! I will let you know and maybe update with more pics.

As regards to the Dell service:
I have had a few problems with my laptop, most of which are down to me wanting it perfect, but this is an XPS high end product so that’s how it should be.
I have always managed to get what I wanted out of the service, but there are one or two things that i find frustrating.

• The call centre is in India (for UK customers at least), this makes it quite hard and often frustrating to explain and communicate.
  
• Often to get anything done exactly the way you want you have to speak to an adviser/manager.
  
• For me they could not arrange a specific time for the tech to come round.
  
• Delays in parts etc. Put one of my repairs back by over a month! It is supposed to be next business day!!!

These are all niggles and do not make it a bad service as a whole. As I previously stated I have always got what I wanted form the service, you just have to be patient, firm, and have a bit of time free to get everything sorted out.

 

if you like the front and the sides, you will looove the lid

First I painted the whole Lid in black. After that I lacquer with a shiny metallic Car-lacquer.(I painted the DELL logo (on the Lid) 50% visible, got really cool)...anyway, i post the Lid tomorrow and you see

 

Sweet KSMB! Can't wait

 

I totally agree with all of that, yes in the US we end up with Indian reps also. I too have gotten everything I needed but it has taken time and effort, I just wish there was an easier way to do it, something more streamlined, but overall I have definitely received everything that I needed so I can't complain!

 

There the new avatar is operational! Ha. Think I’m going to attempt the sticker removal now!

 

Haha I like the avatar! Make sure you post some pics of the sticker-less baby! Haha It's going to look so sleek...

 

Boom!

Stickerless! Looks good I missed how it used to look... was so easy to do though!

Now I feel like I want to custom paint it or something but that is a bad idea it would probably turn out ugly ;-).

 

Looks good! Check out the other thread you posted in for my comment, I don't wanna repeat myself haha.

 

By the way everyone, my whole laptop was torn apart today and I had the ability to take a picture of the inside of the kensington security slot and to my surprise there is a little metal box that it goes into, I don't know if all laptops are like this but it definitely seems sturdy! I'll post some pics in a few...

 

Here are two pictures of the same thing but one is clearer than the other, in any case, the kensington "box" has the red square around it:

 

any more pix of sxps 13 or 16?

enjoying these pics until I receive my new toy

 

Since no one else is really posting lately, I just went ahead and took some pics of mine, I know how it feels to be waiting for your laptop and running out of pictures and videos to look at to pass the time haha... As soon as these are uploaded on my computer I will post them on here, keep your eyes open!

 

Oh yeah, I forgot to ask you what laptop you are waiting for??