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    Can't Decide on a Notebook and I'm thinking I won't

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by bifnewman, Jun 5, 2009.

  1. bifnewman

    bifnewman Notebook Evangelist

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    My parents aren't "giving" me any of this stuff. Why are you so quick to assume that I have rich parents that give me everything... I pmed K-tron about my config asking for his advise on a case. I am not asking how to build it did you read. All I want is recommendations for a case...
     
  2. bifnewman

    bifnewman Notebook Evangelist

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    How in the world do you know I'm 12? Well thx anyway for leaking that information just so people can judge me. That is why I don't like my age distributed. They will all say "your only 12, you don't deserve any of this stuff".
     
  3. Miss Malevolent

    Miss Malevolent Notebook Consultant

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    My suggestion is to build a better lemonade stand or bicycle...so you can make more change for the M980NU. It is going to be expensive.
     
  4. Soviet Sunrise

    Soviet Sunrise Notebook Prophet

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    You're welcome. You use the same username on other forums as well as your old account that got banned on YouTube. It's not hard to Bing your name, and you formally admit in your post that you are indeed 12. You could have just lied to me and broke the logical chain and I would have believed you. But then again you're not the kind of person that would lie or use a voice changer in your videos.

    I didn't say that your parents are paying for your project. However, unless you have a very successful lemonade stand, I don't think you make enough income to pay for such an expensive machine, thus deducing that your parents are paying for your project, or that you saved up a whole lot of Christmas cash.

    What I am stating here is that there is a very strong correlation with young aspiring custom builders and failed attempts at very complex projects, especially a first project, such as this elaborate concoction you desire to construct. I started tinkering with computers when I was 10 and didn't build my first custom until I was 15. And all the effort, money, and mistakes that I have put in up to now is more experience and knowledge making me a wiser computer engineer. You have to start small like everyone else, regardless of age, and build a mid-tier desktop or even a semi-barebones notebook. But if you want a machine that is powerful like the D900F or the M980NU, then buy it and enjoy a beast of a machine that it is as well as study how it works to further expand your knowledge of computers.
     
  5. GamingACU

    GamingACU Notebook Deity

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    Well that's because:

    a) most adults won't waste time to argue with a 12 year old.

    b) to most people you probably don't deserve it. I come from a working class family. I definitely didn't own anything comparable to a $1,000 computer when I was 12.

    c) unless you're a genius and your parents are engineers you won't have access to the knowledge and machinery to make such a custom computer.
     
  6. bifnewman

    bifnewman Notebook Evangelist

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    who would believe me????
     
  7. Soviet Sunrise

    Soviet Sunrise Notebook Prophet

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    Build this one-of-a-kind computer first, then come talk to me.
     
  8. bifnewman

    bifnewman Notebook Evangelist

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    What has this thread become? You tell me because you were one of the people who started this rant... I asked for some simple advise. Why cant any of you guys handle that?
     
  9. Soviet Sunrise

    Soviet Sunrise Notebook Prophet

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    This thread has become pointless and long overdue for a lock. I gave you my advice, despite being skeptical of what you wanted to build, and you ignored me. Again, just get the Clevo that you originally wanted to invest in and leave desktops out of the laptop world. Please, I beg you for your own dignity, realize that it is impossible for you and just buy the Clevo before you embarass yourself even more. You're lucky that NBR doesn't have negative rep like other forums or else you would be deep in the red right now.
     
  10. GamingACU

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    I actually thought of a possible way to do this, but it would be very "unportable" and ugly. What if he got a minitower (or the smallest tower capable of using a motherboard that supports the i7) and only uses the tower for the cpu, ram, and HDD. Then he could mount the powersupply on the outside, and get a vidock and mount that on the outside. That way two of the biggest heat generators wouldn't be inside the tower causing heat, and the only thing he'd have to worry about cooling would be the hdd, ram and cpu which wouldn't be impossible.

    However, I don't see that being ultra portable, and it would look like a frankenstein computer.
     
  11. bifnewman

    bifnewman Notebook Evangelist

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    im gonna agree with soviet sunrise... this thread should have been closed a long time ago... just please dont spread any information about me. i respect other peoples personal privacy now will you accept mine.
     
  12. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    ok then.

    thread closed. :)
     
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