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    Wolf in a wool suit(8510W)

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Pongo, Oct 19, 2007.

  1. Pongo

    Pongo Notebook Consultant

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    I have had my 8510w for a few weeks now and I love it.
    I wanted a low profile, high powered laptop with a mid res 15.4 lcd, high build quality and a good docking station available.
    The 8510W looks great, runs quiet in non gaming applications and ok quiet in gaming applications.
    It came with OS disks for Vista Buisiness 32 and 64 and HPs site offers great support for manuals(a pdf manual for ANY thing you might want to do to the lappy) in either XP or Vista.
    The notebook looks perfectly at home at work if I have to pull it out and plug a projector into it in front of 20 people but any geek that sees it knows they are seeing a top tier machine.
    I have the 7300 processor and 2 gigs of ram. The quadro 570 card is running Gforce drivers for gaming fun. I got the normal docking station with it.
    I purchased and installed XP pro on it after trying out Vista(seemed ok) as I need XP for work.
    I play Red Orchestra on it with no constraints and Oblivion better then my 2 year old desk top did.
    I purchased it from CDW.ca(CDW.com in the states) and I could not be happier with the support they provided in replacing the first one I got that had a dead LCD. They replaced it in 3 days and RMAd the original in 10 days.

    For people that want a very solid and very powerful notebook that they can take to work much easier then an ASUS G1 or even V1 I highly recomend this laptop!