Sparda Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 Any one notice the difference? For those who have here's a bit of back ground: I wanted to get a laptop to replace my desktop for day to do (not particularly hardware intensive) tasks. So I wandered around places like PC World ( i know I hate them too, but buying a laptop on the Internet is just pain full), Dixsons but spotted this little steal in Currys (Advent 7901A). £450 it cost, has a GB of RAM (Intel graphics card steals 64MB of that), Celeron M 1.6GHz. I didn't really look too closely at the hardware when I got it. In any case, got it home, have been using it for about 2 days now (it's very nearly replaced my desktop for general use). So I opened CPU-Z today to see some pretty damn good hardware specs for the price. This is a pretty brilliant laptop for the price, don't you agree?. I love that they didn't screw me over by fitting 2x512MB sticks. I get about 3 hours of life of this this thing from full charge, the keyboard is virtually full size (not an annoying layout) I suspect the price was heavily subsidised by all the crapware they installed. But as soon as I saw it I didn't think twice about Installing Ubuntu, such a shame the wireless card doesn't seem to work. Never mind, Ubuntu 7 is on it's way and has a better focus on wireless network support :D, for now I have *sigh* windows XP on here, but the only actual reason I need it is because the wireless card doesn't work with Linux (properly). It pisses me off that MS can get away with those fugly "Designed for Windows" stickers (which actually put me off buying the thing) and yet, I have never seen a "Works with Linux" sticker on any retail PC, it really does make me want to cry. Note: These screen shots where taken with the low power mode enabled (a BIOS feature (that can be enabled or disabled using a button physicly on the laptop) that when enabled reduces the clocks speeds of the FSB, Bus, CPU and RAM while the OS is running... and you don't need any fucktard software for it to work either. Non-power reduced clocks speeds are: FSB=533MHz, Bus Speed=133MHz, CPU 1600MHz, RAM Hz=266MHz Quote
Garda Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 yea, i just got a laptop a few weeks ago laptops are awesome Quote
Cosmo Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 Wow, you even got rid of the paper from behind your power strip. Cleaning house are we? Quote
Sparda Posted January 16, 2007 Author Posted January 16, 2007 Wow, you even got rid of the paper from behind your power strip. Cleaning house are we? It's quite shocking isn't it? :P but I had to have a bit of a tidy up so that the floor didn't look less minimalistic then my desk :D Quote
uber_tom Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 I've always found Celeron's to be slow and hot. Quote
kickarse Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 ^^ Okay who told you about my sex life? :twisted: Neways.. congrats! I just bought a TurionX2 1.6ghz, 1gb DDR, 100gb hd SATA, 14.1 widescreen :) Quote
Sparda Posted January 16, 2007 Author Posted January 16, 2007 wow some people are sad... So how is your G3 macbook melodic? :D Quote
Matt {Undead} Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 I prob be fixing them laptops eventually, atm im fixing toshiba and packard bell laptops that are sent from mastercare. Quote
Jigga-Zula Posted January 24, 2007 Posted January 24, 2007 clean ur room lol stop reviving old threads lol Quote
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