A little Toshiba love

I think sometime we get so caught up to with the cpu and gpu in our laptops that we will drive ourselves crazy. I am all ways ready and looking up info on how to improve my system that sometime I don't think I even appreciate how good it is already. I have got a pretty nice Toshiba that has a 9700 gpu in it. I think to myself all the time " man I want to upgrade that GPU or just get a new rig. So I did I blew $3800 on a M17x about a year and a half ago. I thought man this is it. This has got to be one of the best rigs that could be made. I sent off for it and gave the Toshiba to my mother to use. " I need to say at this point the Toshiba at this point had never given me any problem and I have played every game you could think of on it." Anyway I got the all mighty Alien in and to make a long story short, I had problems with it from almost day one. I remember thinking to myself the first time I played Crysis on it man this does not really look allot better then my Toshiba did but I have got to be wrong this is a $3800 alien with duel 3870 and a extreme cpu that by itself was a almost $1000 upgrade. Anyway time went by and one day I went to power up the alien monster and guess what. No luck. I called in to support and after a good 3hrs on the phone they come to find out that both of my hard drives where fried. Well they did good and overnight ed me 2 new ones and walked me threw the recovery process. I got it going again and update everything and was off to gaming again. Well I downloaded the new battlefield bad company 2 to play. Guess what the system would hardly play it. Even on med setting. If I got into thick brush or water man it got real slow and choppy. Well I looked around and found out that BF2 was a game that they said did not play well with crossfire. So I said oh well and went on playing other games. Then The long awaited Metro 2033 came out. And guess what it did run it beautifully. Man it made no since to me that a game that is more of a power-hog then crysis every was would play perfect but BF2 and some other older games would be so crappy. Anyway Time goes by and I have to sell my M17X due to some hard times. Went a few months with nothing and was going crazy and my mother felt sorry for me and gave me back my Toshiba. I got it and thought to myself wow this is going to suck. Slow cpu and only a 9700 single gpu in it again. So I went to my steam account and downloaded Metro 2033 to see if this thing would even play it. And guess what? It did. And pretty damn good too. I was really quite amazed. So then I downloaded CODMWF2 and guess what ran on full high setting then went back and downloaded Battlefield bad company 2. And guess freaking what? Run perfect. Yes it is not on high but neither was the $3800 alienware. It got me thinking that if I was just happy with what I had at the time I would have not wasted close to $4000 and had all of that crazy trouble ya know? LOL Anyway what I have been trying to say is if your system plays the game you want it to play and it looks good to you then remember my little story and save yourself allot of money and trouble!

Just a note guys this is not meant to be a bash Alienware post I still love the brand but it just happened that I got a lemon. lol