once we all get our fancy new dells

so has anyone decided what if anything they will add to the system be it software are hardware? i have never had a system with a remote are bluetooth so i am just wondering what if any ideas the forum had to add to their new systems

 

lol fill it up with music and movies =) is it easy filling up 160gb ?

 

oh an also if u get 2gb ram... is it possible to expand it to 4gb on ur own in the future?

 

Yes it is, but u also need a 64bit OS to recognize all of those 4 gigs.

 

god, imagine dell made us happy and we all had our hardware... sorry... just fantasizing the utterly impossible

 

I'm gonna put on mine software-wise....

FEAR
CoD 2
NWN 2
Halo
Halo 2
Half Life
Half Life 2
About 50 mods for Half Life 2
Firefox
Starcraft
Warcraft III
Guild Wars
Battlefield 2
Battlefield 2142
and Crysis as it should be playable with settings turned down on the 8600 GT

/breathe

My current PC can't run much of anything beyond Half Life 2 on mid-low settings, so it'll be nice trying some of the games I currently play on much higher settings, and just being able to play the games I can't play now like Battlefield 2.

Hardware...

A nice, fast, flash drive with 4 gigs of space devoted to readyboost, when I find a good deal on one.

Midnight Blue wireless optical logitech mouse, that got delayed to effing september.

And... uh... a basic headset.

 

Microsoft and office edition I definently need for school. Maybe i"ll upload all my music up on there.Play movies?? I can't wait.

 

I'll probably look for my own antivirus.
And I'll try out my Selftest software on it (I've read it works in Vista if you use the Windows 98 compatibility mode).
And probably some music files.
And I may need RMClock...

 

i have never been a gamer but i may have to invest in some games with the m1330

 

Don't invest too much, it's a graphics card but don't expect to play newer games cleanly


So far I 've tried cs source and i get 50 FPS maxed out, 1280x800, w/o AA

 

Interesting topic. I'll use mine for

-music,
-general use (text-editing, internet, mail, pornographic images),
-games (FSX, enemy territory, halo, battlefield 2, mohaa, swat 4, gta san andreas, trackmania, oblivion) ,
-and ofcourse -the reason why i bought this notebook- for school.

 

i will put titan quest, nero, 30gigs of music, open office, avg anti-virus, ad-aware, spybot search and destroy, and whatever else i think of. After a clean install of course.

 

One addition for me, Adobe Photshop CS3, I have photoshop 6 at the minute but I hear it's not vista compatible =( Which sucks as it does the job perfectly for me!

 

Starcraft will be added. Also ill make sure all the drivers are up to date so i can go online with any wireless thingy and backstab people on battle.net.

 

Add all of my music, some spyware-blockers and the only game I'll ever need: The Sims 2.

 

good stuff so far, i am gonna have to make a list and do some installs on some of this stuff!

 

First partition the HDD and have vista and XP. Then all those pc I've wanted to play for so long but can't because of weak desktop. Lots of the ones I plan to play are listed already, I'm a big gamer and have been waiting so long to get a computer powerful enough to do my biddings. Adobe Premiere pro 2.0 and the whole package with it. And probably in November (birfday) an upgrade from 1.5 to 3GB ram and depending how much space I use for all my music, movies, tv shows and games, perhaps an ext. HDD, or an upgrade altogether and get a 2.5" drive enclosure for the 160GB one.


Oh, and schoolwork...*sarcasm*

 

Here is a good freebee AV. Avast! anti-virus

 

Do you think it's better than AVG?

 

Yep, had that one too. I like Avast! better. It tests out better and has yet to fail me.

 

LOL I wasn't sure which category that went under... but now I know

 

I am going to have to put,

Neverwinter Nights 2, World of warcraft, BF2 and 2142, Half Life 2 and CS:S. Going to install Windows Office Student 2002/3 edition for school work. Going to install NOD32 for antivirus, might keep windows firewall or install Zonealarm pro for vista. Update all my drivers and windows holes. Also going to install Dawn of War and expansions.

Install Firefox and WMP11 and VLC, MSN 8, Spybot Search Seek and Destroy and Adaware 2007. Internet Download Manager, and should be good to go after that

Also got to transfer all 30 GB of music over.