SPARTAN II
Sr Member
After having it listed online for about the last week and a half with little to no interest, I finally managed to sell off my five-year-old piece of junk desktop computer. Got the asking price for it, too.
Considering everything I was including in the "package deal" (aside from the tower, I included the flat-screen LCD monitor, 5.1 surround sound system I'd bought maybe two months ago, web cam with earphone/mic component, HP 3-in-1 printer with new ink cartridges, printer paper, external 150 GB hard drive), I think it was a fair price.
Hell, I even threw in the corner desk itself, lol.
Anyway, as soon as the gentleman and his wife came by to pick it up earlier this afternoon, I immediately went out to the Best Buy near my place and got myself a brand-spanking-new Gateway laptop.
I can't remember all the specs at the moment, but I do know it comes with 3 GB memory, 250 GB hard drive (more than double what my old one was) and runs at 1.7 GHz, with a Core 2 Duo (not Dual Core) chipset. And it was on sale, too, so I managed to save myself a bit of cash that way, heh.
The video card isn't high-end enough to play many of the newer games, but as most of my gaming is done on my 360 console, it's not a big deal, lol.
Maybe it's not the best out there, but those of my friends who have Gateway laptops swear by them, and in my opinion it doesn't make for a half-bad mid-range system.
Of course, I would've loved to get one of those Alienware set-ups (they're damn nice, and crazy upgradable), but as I'm on a tight budget right now even thier base models are a little out of my price range at the moment, lol.
Another thing that appeals to me is the choice of materials for the details. I think the brushed aluminum and maroon panels give it a very striking appearance. Certainly a helluva lot better than the other panel design they had available; a light blue "floral" pattern. Not a very manly-esque computer, heh.
Haven't put much on it yet except for the "essentials" (Winamp, for my streaming internet radio; AIM, for chatting), but damn am I having fun with it so far.
Though I've seen others use this particular OS, and have heard very mixed reviews about it, this is the very first time I've used a computer with Windows Vista. Personally, I like it, if you ignore the fact that the OS alone is a major memory hog
And now that I have an up-to-date, USB2 compatible system to work with, I can now directly transfer pics from my 7.0 Megapixel digital camera, as well as my cell phone. So, no more having to transfer them to a friend's computer, and then from there transfer them to mine.
Which, of course, I've already done with some random pics. That also means, when I take further progress pics of my armour, they'll be up for viewing almost immediately.
I think I'm really going to like the portability and lack of all those cursed attached peripherals that I had to lumber around with for my desktop system. It'll be a helluva lot easier to take this thing on trips, that's for sure, lol.
Anyway, here are a couple pics of what I got (pardon the quality of the pics, they were taken with my phone camera). This one is actually the in-store display model, but you get the general idea:
Gateway Laptop -- Pic 01
Gateway Laptop -- Pic 02
Considering everything I was including in the "package deal" (aside from the tower, I included the flat-screen LCD monitor, 5.1 surround sound system I'd bought maybe two months ago, web cam with earphone/mic component, HP 3-in-1 printer with new ink cartridges, printer paper, external 150 GB hard drive), I think it was a fair price.
Hell, I even threw in the corner desk itself, lol.
Anyway, as soon as the gentleman and his wife came by to pick it up earlier this afternoon, I immediately went out to the Best Buy near my place and got myself a brand-spanking-new Gateway laptop.
I can't remember all the specs at the moment, but I do know it comes with 3 GB memory, 250 GB hard drive (more than double what my old one was) and runs at 1.7 GHz, with a Core 2 Duo (not Dual Core) chipset. And it was on sale, too, so I managed to save myself a bit of cash that way, heh.
The video card isn't high-end enough to play many of the newer games, but as most of my gaming is done on my 360 console, it's not a big deal, lol.
Maybe it's not the best out there, but those of my friends who have Gateway laptops swear by them, and in my opinion it doesn't make for a half-bad mid-range system.
Of course, I would've loved to get one of those Alienware set-ups (they're damn nice, and crazy upgradable), but as I'm on a tight budget right now even thier base models are a little out of my price range at the moment, lol.
Another thing that appeals to me is the choice of materials for the details. I think the brushed aluminum and maroon panels give it a very striking appearance. Certainly a helluva lot better than the other panel design they had available; a light blue "floral" pattern. Not a very manly-esque computer, heh.
Haven't put much on it yet except for the "essentials" (Winamp, for my streaming internet radio; AIM, for chatting), but damn am I having fun with it so far.
Though I've seen others use this particular OS, and have heard very mixed reviews about it, this is the very first time I've used a computer with Windows Vista. Personally, I like it, if you ignore the fact that the OS alone is a major memory hog
And now that I have an up-to-date, USB2 compatible system to work with, I can now directly transfer pics from my 7.0 Megapixel digital camera, as well as my cell phone. So, no more having to transfer them to a friend's computer, and then from there transfer them to mine.
Which, of course, I've already done with some random pics. That also means, when I take further progress pics of my armour, they'll be up for viewing almost immediately.
I think I'm really going to like the portability and lack of all those cursed attached peripherals that I had to lumber around with for my desktop system. It'll be a helluva lot easier to take this thing on trips, that's for sure, lol.
Anyway, here are a couple pics of what I got (pardon the quality of the pics, they were taken with my phone camera). This one is actually the in-store display model, but you get the general idea:
Gateway Laptop -- Pic 01
Gateway Laptop -- Pic 02
