Well I did it...

Well, I finally decided that the Q893 for $1,150.00 was jus too good a deal to pass up, so I ordered it off Amazon. I am totally stoked. lol I also ordered like 20 PC games for the *bleep* of it, all stuff that is at least a few months old so I got the games at a serious discount on Amazon. I aso ordered an XBox 360 controller to use with the lappy.












I know you guys all know what it looks like already, but screw it.

 

Congratulations!!!!! It was about time. Excellent buy. You can't get more machine for that money. I hope it serves you well for years. Now write a love story and call it Let Me Put Your Cosmos into My Qosmios.

We will impatiently await your review with pics... And the party, of course!!

PS: Instead of those 20 games, you could have gotten the 3 year warranty, man.

 

I expect a full on review that investigates every nook and cranny of this laptop. jk

 

I probably will write a review. The problem is that I don't know enough about how to write a good laptop review, particularly benchmark tests and stuff. And yes, it will be as detailed as possible, smart a s s.

Thanks! And lol nice story idea.

And I agree that for the money you really can't beat that machine.

You're all invited. You bring the girls, a4500435 can bring the booze, and Richard brings the chips and dip. Honestly, I wanted the machine for gaming, and figured that the games would be the better investment for now. Why? Well, because I am going to treat this laptop as an interum lappy, keep it in perfect condition, and sell it on eBay in about a year, right before the warranty is up. Meanwhile I will keep saving for a more high end laptop for a year or so from now.

 

Wow...that's great! Congratulations! What are you going to name her?

Don't bother with benchmarks, those are already well-known anyway. I really hope you like the laptop, and I can't wait for your opinion.

Also, 20 games > warranty any day.

 

Does that screen actually look as bad as you thought?
How about the speakers?

 

Excuse me, but isn't a4500435 an evil violinist who even appears in bestselling novels? I think he should bring the women. I am sure he'll do a better job than me.

Something catchy. Something lyrical. Something unforgettable. Something like a470002584363454389887898234423.

Pufff, I don't know. 20 games at once seems too much like work. 1 or 2, 4 or 5, that's fine. But 20... I'd feel stressed.

By the way, I don't buy or sell anything on eBay so I don't know, but wouldn't it be easier to sell a laptop for a good price if it had 2 years of warranty remaining?

 

Congratulations, I hope you enjoy it.

 

Thanks, buyukbang!

I am going to name her a4500435 after you, of course.

I don't know if it was exactly 20. I just went through my PC wishlist and bought everything, especially since the prices were all very low on many of them. lol I should compile a list and see exactly how many I ordered, but also some of them were older games that I have on consoles and have already played, but never had a PC that can run them before. lol

I just ordered it last night, so I won't know until at least the weekend, maybe later if it doesn't ship today. I have free Amazon Prime 2 day shipping, so if it ships today, the latest I will have it is Friday night after work. I will let you know, though.

That is VERY true! Okay, a4500435, you bring the women.

I have a better idea. Why don't I simply have the laptop calculate Pi to a hundred decimal places and name her that?

Like I said above, I don't think it was actually 20, and some of the games I have already played on consoles. Hell, for 8 bucks I even ordered the GTA trilogy (III, VC, and SA) even though I have them and they play on my present laptop. lol It amazes me how much those games still entertain me. But I also bought games like Just Cause 2 and Burnout Paradise for fairly cheap, which I have also played on my PS3.

Well, to be honest, I have noticed that the Qosmios from a year ago are still selling (even used) at a good price even now. Assuming I keep this laptop in mint condition, which I definitely will, I would be happy to get $700.00 for it next fall, and that sounds perfectly reasonable (maybe even conservative) given what I see even the 360m based Qosmios going for on eBay right now. Then I will have had full use of this laptop for a year or so for the price of $400.00 plus the full tax on the unit, so say $500.00. Meanwhile, I will save up for either the next generation of Qosmio or the Asus, whatever is better at that time.

Honestly, I had considered the warranty, but I don't intend to keep the laptop more than a year. I just wanted a really nice interum unit that could play games while I save for something more feature-packed.

 

Hey, that's not fair! You should at least call her Andanzas4500435. That has a nice ring to it. Or Andanzas4500435 Dickerson. Yeah, I know, I've got real talent for names.

What features do you miss besides full HD and Blu-Ray?

 

I think once Sandy Bridge comes out, we'll see some great models. Especially if you want a quad-core, Sandy Bridge is definitely worth waiting for.

The i5 dual-cores won't change much, so I'm not playing the waiting game...Sandy Bridge is at least 3-4 months out.

 

Oh yeah, you are a name jenius, with a "J."

Those, obviously, a better warranty, better build construction, a better screen, more RAM, Sandy Bridges (when it is out), an i7, more HD space, an SSD, USB 3.0, and looking ahead another year, perhaps SLI, a faster video card, built in 3D monitor, etc.

 

... and the mouth-open-too-widener obviously

 

I don't follow.

 

I'm looking into your future...I see...a $2,500+ price tag.

 

Sorry, I didn't think "opening one's mouth too wide" idiom were stripped from American English. Basically it means that you want clearly too much

 

Yeah. Actually $2500 is probably too low an estimate, SLI will bump you above $3000 easily.

 

No not at all, Ingvarr. What I want is what money can buy. For the price I paid, there simply isn't a better deal I could have gotten than the Q893, period. This is why I see it as an interum laptop that will be fine for, say a year or so. But what I would like to do is get as much good use out of this machine as I can and save for a higher end model a year from now. Maybe I will settle for whatever Asus comes out with next or see if Toshiba can actually match it, which they came impressively close to doing with the Qosmio, by they way. Or maybe I will go full-tilt and get a customized Sager/Clevo for 3K+.

 

Well, all I would say it's all well as long as you satisfied with it.
X505 served me well as interim laptop too. And I've lost only about 25% of original price after selling it.

 

How long did you have it for, Ingvarr?

 

About half a year. Not the usual time I would have laptop I am satisfied with, I had Satellite X200 for almost 2 years before of that.

 

And are you getting all that before or after building your high-end desktop?

Man, how many novels do you expect to sell?

 

LMAO I would be exceedingly happy just getting one of them published at this point and taking it from there.