i have decided to pursue my dream in becoming a talented surfer. i have surfed some east coast waves but want to develop skills to improve to the bigger ones? what kind of skateboard can i get to help me develops some skills day to day?
So, I’m going to boarding school in the fall as a junior (11th grade) and am getting a laptop within the next few weeks. I’m pretty much set on the Dell Studio 15 (feel free to tell me your experiences/opinions on them…). I’m not computer savy at all so I need help building it. I’ll list what I’ve put together, but PLEASE tell me if I need more or less. And in case it helps, I’ll be using it for school work, internet surfing, uploading pictures and videos off my camera (I’m not a photographer or anything, but I just take pictures and videos once in a while).
Dell Studio 15 (starts at $599)
+ $30 Promise Pink
[included in price] Pentium Dual Core T4200 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/1MB cache)
however, I’m contemplating if it’s worth the extra $50 to upgrade to:
Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (2.00 GHz/ 800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
will it make much of a difference? if so, what exactly will it do?
[included in price] Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium Edition SP1
[included in price] 1 year limited warranty + mail in service
[included in price] no productivity software
I do NEED Microsoft Office Home + Student 2007 and was thinking I could buy it and install in on my computer for less $ than upgrading on dell.com for $139…is this true?
[included in price] bright, glossy widescreen 15.4 WLED display (1280×800)
[included in price] 3GB shared dual channel DDR2 at 800MHz
[included in price] 250GB SATA hard drive (5400RPM)
[included in price] Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500 MHD
Would it be possible to play any games with this video card..such as Zoo Tycoon, horseback riding games like Time To Ride?
[included in price] 8x Slot Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD +/- R Drive)
NOT DECIDED! :
[included in price] Dell Wireless 1397 802.11g half mini-card
or
+$35 Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11agn half mini-card
is the second option much better? will I notice a difference?
$0 No Mobile Broadband Network…i dont need this, correct?
[included in price] Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam
[included in price] 56 Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)…would the 85 Whr Lithium Ion Battery (9 cell) be much better for the extra $40?
[included in price] High Definition Audio 2.0
+$25 Back-lit Keyboard
$0 No Fingerprint Scanner
I have heard that the speakers are horrendous on this laptop…but how bad exactly? Like, could I watch videos on YouTube and be able to hear? And listen to music (I’d never need it to blare across the room) but quietly while I’m sitting next to it?
Thank you SO MUCH for helping me. I appreciate any bit of info/tips anyone can give me :]
Obviously I want a laptop…But I’ve been having a hard decision choosing what I need. I’m on a budget of $700 at the most.
I want to do average video editing and some photoshop.
I know that gaming on a laptop isn’t that good and that you should go for a desktop, so I already ruled that out.
So..some video editing and some photoshop
And you know..the other everyday things like…Media, Internet surfing, Email..etc…
So, are these good specs for what I want:
PLEASE TELL ME IF THESE SPECS ARE TOO MUCH FOR WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR…WHETHER IT BE THE PROCESSOR OR RAM OR HARDRIVE..WHATEVER!…ID BE GREAT TO LOWER IT
Intel Core™ 2 Duo P7450 (2.13GHz/1066Mhz FSB/3MB cache)
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1 64 Bit
15.6” High Definition+ (1600×900) LED Display with TrueLife
3GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 800MHz
160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD (again..nothing specail like gaming..just some good ol’ video editing and photoshop)
8X CD / DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
9-cell battery (yah, I travel a good bit)
Dell Wireless 1397 802.11g Half Mini-Card (should I get a better one…a faster one with further range?)
Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Internal (2.1) (honestly, why do people use bluetooth…please tell me if I would use/even want this…)
High Definition Audio 2.0
Integrated 1.3 MP Webcam (yeah, I know..but its the best one they had…)
I recently built my own computer and it seems to be running slower than my old 7 year old dell computer.
During everyday, low power tasks like web surfing or word documents, I really can’t tell the difference between my new and old computers. When I tested how well it runs with some high def 1080 x264 mkv movies I have around, it worked really well. I noticed during file copying and extracting compressed files the new computer didn’t do the tasks faster than the old computer did, I expected with the new i7 920 64 bit CPU it should be done in 1/10th the time. All the hardware I installed on the new computer are all faster than on the old computer, so at least the access/read speed would be faster, but it wasn’t.
Then came my test of running Half Life 2 to see any improvements and finally experience the game with graphics maxed out. The graphics card handled the graphics part really well, as expected, but the loading (starting HL2) was slower than the old computer, by about 10 minutes!
There is also a problem with the keyboard I have, Its a Logitech illuminated keyboard an even though it HID and Plug-n-play compatible, the keyboard doesn’t work until windows is loaded, and when the computer is turned on with the keyboard plugged to the USB port the computer takes about 3 minutes before the Bios/post screen shows up. When I tried plugging the keyboard into the PS/2 port (with adapter) the bios/post screen shows up immediately but the keyboard doesn’t work at all. I can’t figure that problem out either.
computer specs:
Custom project:
MSI Platinum X58 motherboard
Intel i7 920 quad core processor with HT (some programs think the computer has 8 CPUs and windows sees it as one cpu with 4 cores)
Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit (I’m not all that familiar with vista- that could be a problem)
Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB SATA II hard drive
nVidia GeForce 250 GTS 512MB graphics
G-Skill 6GB DDR3 1333 ram
onboard 2x Gigabit NIC
onboard Realtec audio with HD capability
22x DVD-ram drive (reads every format of CD and single-layer DVD)
other things I noticed:
the CPU usage never gets above 5% at any time, even when gaming or watch HD movies, normally this would be at 100% on the old computer
the computer uses around 1.5GB ram at all times, it seems pretty high when compared to other computers I use at work also with the Vista OS.
please help me, thank you
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