Carina's new laptop[views:1704][posts:18]_______________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 10:47am - the_reverend ""] since carina's old laptop blew up and she needs to be able to process pictures faster, she ordered a dell 1705. I just unpacked it and I felt like this dude: [img] it's rediculously over-sized. |
__________________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 10:47am - DreamingInExile ""] AHAHAHA! |
___________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:02am - succubus ""] please install trillian, set up my outlook express, PS, you know the drill squeeze in yer processing proggie ;) woo hoo!! |
___________________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:08am - thedeparted nli ""] that asian man reminded me of a video i saw the other day of Asimo falling down. heh |
_______________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:09am - the_reverend ""] linguo dies... |
_______________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:12am - the_reverend ""] whoah.. it comes with google desktop already installed. that's really weird cause vista has an indexing service built in. |
_______________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:20am - the_reverend ""] this is the first duo core system I've touched. I'm freaking floored. |
___________________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:23am - davefromthegrave ""] the_reverend said:this is the first duo core system I've touched. I'm freaking floored. what's it like? |
________________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:27am - aaron_michael ""] the_reverend said: [img] dad? |
_______________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:38am - the_reverend ""] both cores show up in the task manager with different monitors. I did some tests and it runs more than 4x faster than my laptop |
_______________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:47am - the_reverend ""] and even aaron can't tell them apart. that dude's japanese, not korean! |
____________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 11:51am - DrewBlood ""] i have a dual core in my box. two p4's running in harmony ala hawkeye and trapper or perhaps turk and jd. the one thing you have to look out for is gaming. some games just don't like the dual core. |
_________________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 12:08pm - Spaldino@werk ""] the_reverend said: [img] it's rediculously over-sized. TEh pS3 iz H00ge!11 LOL! |
_________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 12:17pm - xmikex ""] aaron_michael said:the_reverend said: [img] dad? haha! |
______________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 3:37pm - the_reverend ""] I just hooked up carina's laptop to my 24" screen... that's a 3840x1200 display! |
_____________________________________ [Dec 13,2006 4:14pm - xanonymousx ""] them icons must be supa small. d00d |
_________________________________________ [Dec 18,2006 11:48am - carina @ work ""] now the issue that aaron hasn't fixed is in IE it looks ugly..so i've been using firefox but i would like IE to look normal |
_______________________________________ [Dec 18,2006 11:50am - the_reverend ""] yeah, I'm not sure what's up with that... everything looks choppy in it. |
__________________________________________ [Dec 18,2006 11:50am - DreamingInExile ""] the_reverend said:both cores show up in the task manager with different monitors. I did some tests and it runs more than 4x faster than my laptop my P4 3.2 shows up as two CPUs also, even though it's only one (thanks to Hyper-Threading). |