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    hows my rig?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by JellyBeans, Aug 2, 2008.

  1. JellyBeans

    JellyBeans Notebook Evangelist

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    Components
    PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache) edit
    OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows® Vista Home Premium Edition SP1 edit
    SYSTEM COLOUR Bone White edit
    MEMORY 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz edit
    HARD DRIVE 320GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) edit
    GRAPHICS CARD 512MB Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® 8700M GT with NVIDIA® SLI® Te edit
    OPTICAL DRIVE 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability edit
    WIRELESS CARD Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N edit
    BLUETOOTH Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR) edit
    BATTERY OPTIONS 9 Cell Battery edit
    SOUND OPTIONS High Definition Audio 2.0 edit
    PHYSICS ACCELERATOR AGEIA™ PhysX™ Physics Accelerator edit

    All for ye low price of 2200 :D CAN
     
    JellyBeans, Aug 2, 2008
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  2. CrispyMango

    CrispyMango Notebook Geek

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    how does it feel to waste hundreds of dollars on sli... :)
     
    CrispyMango, Aug 2, 2008
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  3. JellyBeans

    JellyBeans Notebook Evangelist

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    its not a waste sli>>>non sli
     
    JellyBeans, Aug 2, 2008
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  4. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    If you like your notebook, who cares what someone else thinks?
     
    ZaZ, Aug 2, 2008
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  5. CeeNote

    CeeNote Notebook Virtuoso

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    Looks good especially considering the notoriously higher Canadian prices...
     
    CeeNote, Aug 2, 2008
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  6. Rodster

    Rodster Merica

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    Nice innards but what laptop did you get? :p
     
    Rodster, Aug 2, 2008
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  7. CeeNote

    CeeNote Notebook Virtuoso

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    It looks like an xps 1730.
     
    CeeNote, Aug 2, 2008
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  8. jb1007

    jb1007 Full Customization

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    Nice specs... get a 7200rpm drive - minimum.
     
    jb1007, Aug 2, 2008
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