Post your laptops!
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M1730 is the way to go but the m1710 still holds its ground with less weight, size, better speakers and reasonable battery life.
The 1730 (with the gtx's) will decimate the 1710 in games/rendering though, has a built in mic/webcam/5.1, g15 screen and supports two hdd's in raid.
Indeed they have.
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LOL.Yup, but rather ironically Rock were bought by Stone
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I must admit that I am still more than happy with the M1710, but it's just that the M1730 looks newer and shinier and the grass is greener
also the M1710 is starting to show it's age with gfx in some games. I'm really frustrated as I got half way through Crysis and it's now running like a slideshow 
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LOL.
lol indeed
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Got this little beast the other day
D830
2.6 C2D T9500 (2.6GHz/6MB/800MHz)
120GB
140M NVS
4GB
Vista Business
1680 X 1050
9 Cell Battery
Docking Sation
DVD-RW
etc
£900
Congrats man! Those specs look insane
What video card does it have in it? I suppose its a business laptop?
Ill collect all my laptops up later and get a pic
Is that the the chilli design?
I really like the look of that one however you can't beat the boy racer stripe on mine.
BTW, does your screen have **** viewing angles?
I must admit that I am still more than happy with the M1710, but it's just that the M1730 looks newer and shinier and the grass is greener
There's only one thing to do.
buy an m1730 ofc
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Is that the the chilli design?
I really like the look of that one however you can't beat the boy racer stripe on mine.
BTW, does your screen have **** viewing angles?
I seen the dell street design and although it is nice I went for the chill design as the missus uses it as well and the street design was too boyish.
I am however planning on getting a Dell XPS M1530 soon
Your second quest has starred out a word :S not sure what you’re asking
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Compaq Armada: Pentium 2 366mhz, 256mb RAM.
Bought it for £40 completely dead. Someone has tried to open it using a screwdriver instead of the correct tool and had mashed the screws so I drilled out the screws re-soldered where the power connector connects to the board and changed the cmos battery. Viola! working laptop. Just upgraded the RAM to 256mb (for free).
...Yes it is now held together by green electrical tape and no there is no CDROM drive or battery (neither works). The best feature is that there is no external power brick you just plug the kettle lead straight into the back.
EDIT: Almost forgot. When using a PCMCIA card the cpu fan does not spin so it's totally silent. I've left it on for over 12 hours without it melting so I guess this is a fault that I like
Bought it for £40 completely dead. Someone has tried to open it using a screwdriver instead of the correct tool and had mashed the screws so I drilled out the screws re-soldered where the power connector connects to the board and changed the cmos battery. Viola! working laptop. Just upgraded the RAM to 256mb (for free).
...Yes it is now held together by green electrical tape and no there is no CDROM drive or battery (neither works). The best feature is that there is no external power brick you just plug the kettle lead straight into the back.
EDIT: Almost forgot. When using a PCMCIA card the cpu fan does not spin so it's totally silent. I've left it on for over 12 hours without it melting so I guess this is a fault that I like
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That's a bit of a beast you have there verbal! Although I think the off-centred screen would just annoy me too much to use it.
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Specs for now pics to follow later...
Main:
HP DV9702ea
AMD Turion x2 TL-60
2048mb DDR2 PC2-5300
120gb 5400rpm HDD
Nvidia Turbocache 8400GS
17" Display 1400x900
1.3mp webcam
802.11 a/b/g
VX3000 docking station
Work:
HP 8510w mobile workstation
Intel Core2 T7700
2048mb DDR2 PC2-5300
120gb 7200rpm HDD
Nvidia Quattro FX570M
15.4" Display 1900x1200
802.11 a/g/n
Mobile...ish:
Acer Aspire 3680
Intel Celeron M 420
1024mb DDR2 PC2-4200
40gb 5400rpm HDD
Integrated GFX
14.1" Display 1280x800
802.11 a/b/g
all machines serve there purpose^^ notice the resolution and screen size on the HP 8510^^
Main:
HP DV9702ea
AMD Turion x2 TL-60
2048mb DDR2 PC2-5300
120gb 5400rpm HDD
Nvidia Turbocache 8400GS
17" Display 1400x900
1.3mp webcam
802.11 a/b/g
VX3000 docking station
Work:
HP 8510w mobile workstation
Intel Core2 T7700
2048mb DDR2 PC2-5300
120gb 7200rpm HDD
Nvidia Quattro FX570M
15.4" Display 1900x1200
802.11 a/g/n
Mobile...ish:
Acer Aspire 3680
Intel Celeron M 420
1024mb DDR2 PC2-4200
40gb 5400rpm HDD
Integrated GFX
14.1" Display 1280x800
802.11 a/b/g
all machines serve there purpose^^ notice the resolution and screen size on the HP 8510^^
Congrats man! Those specs look insane
What video card does it have in it? I suppose its a business laptop?
Ill collect all my laptops up later and get a pic
Yeah its a business model, so its only a 140M Nvidia
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Epic thread revival!
Here's mine, a HP DV5-1129TX.
Spec is as follows:
T9400 C2D 2.53GHz CPU
4GB of DDR2 800MHz RAM
320GB HD
Lightscribe, Bluray, DVD-+R/RW
15.4" display
GeForce 9600M GT with 512MB of VRAM
Here's mine, a HP DV5-1129TX.
Spec is as follows:
T9400 C2D 2.53GHz CPU
4GB of DDR2 800MHz RAM
320GB HD
Lightscribe, Bluray, DVD-+R/RW
15.4" display
GeForce 9600M GT with 512MB of VRAM
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I'm quite a fan of the D830, hadn't seen one until a friends boss was having spyware/virus issues a couple weeks ago.
Felt quite solid, and (for me) was more comfortable to use than the D6*0.
Screen was nice also, good level of brightness and viewing angle was quite generous.
I'm glad this thread has seen a revivial.
How much was that HP Blackdragon?
Felt quite solid, and (for me) was more comfortable to use than the D6*0.
Screen was nice also, good level of brightness and viewing angle was quite generous.
I'm glad this thread has seen a revivial.
How much was that HP Blackdragon?
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12.1" (1280x800)
P8600 C2D @ 2.4 GHz
4GB
320GB @ 7200RPM
2MP Camera
Vista Home Premium
P8600 C2D @ 2.4 GHz
4GB
320GB @ 7200RPM
2MP Camera
Vista Home Premium
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May as well post up my new toy! Got it a week ago, replaces my xps m1710.
XPS M1730 CORE 2 DUO T9500 2.60GHz
17.0" UltraSharp Widescreen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife with 2.0MP Web camera
4GB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x 2G)
400GB (7200rpm) SATA RAID 0 Stripe (2x200GB)
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Primary 9-cell 85WHr Li-Ion Battery
DUAL SLI 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX card
Ageia PhysX Processing Unit Card
Dell Travel Remote control
Dell TrueMobile 355 internal Bluetooth Module
Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g Mini-PCI Card
Vista Ultimate (64bit OS) + windows 7 on dual boot
XPS M1730 CORE 2 DUO T9500 2.60GHz
17.0" UltraSharp Widescreen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife with 2.0MP Web camera
4GB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x 2G)
400GB (7200rpm) SATA RAID 0 Stripe (2x200GB)
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive
Primary 9-cell 85WHr Li-Ion Battery
DUAL SLI 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTX card
Ageia PhysX Processing Unit Card
Dell Travel Remote control
Dell TrueMobile 355 internal Bluetooth Module
Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g Mini-PCI Card
Vista Ultimate (64bit OS) + windows 7 on dual boot
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VAIO porn. fw11s with a blu-ray writer that still hasnt writen a bluray yet....