New Laptop
Well, my laptop screen finally died yesterday. It went out for the first time while I was actually using it, and didn’t come back at all. There’s no backlight, nothing. Fortunately, the VGA out still works, so I can use monitors at home and work to get my email until the new one arrives.
At any rate, I’ve ordered a new laptop. It’s a HP Pavillion ze4500. Nice laptop, with an XP2200, 256MB, 30 Gig, 15in screen, and so on, for $799 after rebate. I’m quite happy with the specs, except for one thing. I wanted to keep it under $800, and so I had to choose between a 20 Gig hard drive with a DVD/CDR drive, or a 30 gig hard drive with a cdrom, no burner. That’s a tough choice. I have the 20/dvd combo now, and the 20 gigs is getting realy tight in terms of space, especially since the new laptop has a 3D card (a radeon 7000), and so can actually play a lot more games than the current one. This means that I’ll have to give windws much more space than I did before. On the other hand, I use my burner in my laptop all the time, and not having it would be an inconvenience too.
In the end, I went with the drive space. I guess I’ll just have to learn to live with a cdrom drive rather than a burner. Then again, maybe there’s some way I could take the burner out of the current computer and put it in the new one… Nah, that’s too risky. I don’t want to destroy my brand new laptop, and be out entirely.
I also have st got a ze4500, thik its good, however It would be good to be able to tun off the blue lights at the top of the keyboard.
Also I had some probs with Norton antivirus, it lads ok but the laptop take a looong time to boot. I deleted and am now using AVG.
I found it uns btter if I alcated only 32 megs of video in bios rather than the automatic seting of 64 megs ( alcates more ram to memory whre its used better) cant se a diference when I run unreal tournament on max res
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