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what is everyone doing during trinity downtime?
Jita (General) « EVE Online 12/04/07 11:23:57 PM
Im trying to catch up on that thing called work. something which seems to get in the way of eve a lot. very annoying, pesky even.. |
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General: Dell Inspirion 1720 Laptop Review
News Discussion « General Discussion 11/21/07 3:44:51 PM
I am typing this on my 1520 :) I chose the 1520 for the fact I am 155 pounds and when I am on the fly I really dont want to be banging a 8 pound,17 inch monolith around. I play Eve-Online, WoW, Tabula Rasa (which is glitchy atm. The game has just been released so I am rather thinking its the game's fault, not the PCs). The keyboard is smaller yes, but I really didnt want to be staring at a vast section of my desk being consumed by my laptop. When I need it, I plug in an extra monitor and keyboard and presto, Ive got my full keyboard and a very nice span of screen territory.
If you are looking for a laptop which is staying put most of the time, then go for the 17 inch but if you are willing to sacrifice the size for portability then I say go for the 15 inch. I did look at the size vs money but as my friend found out the hard way, his 17 inch didnt "quite" fit when traveling on a plane or at his favorite coffee place.
my setup is: Dell 1520, 15" Hi-def monitor (1680x1050), 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo, 80Gb 5400rpm Hdd (have external hdd for storage), 8600m GT 256, Bluetooth, WiFi, No Camera, Vista Ultimate x64.
ps. had 3 issues with my vista. Bluetooth doesnt work well at all, installing SATA drivers was a pain and finding display drivers for the mobile 8 series nVidia card which would work was and absolute mission. At the moment Dell does not support Vista x64. I dont know what they will do later but we will see.
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