Posts by pflanagan

not really suprising, I recently wrote a college paper about how laptops would slowly take over desktops w/ models like this now we just need them for $500 dell

Most say that the 7800 gtx outperforms the 7900 gs at stock settings, but overclocking will have the 7900 gs slightly ahead. That said, they are both extremely close performance wise.

actually doing some research reveals that screens consume a fairly small portion of a systems total power draw, and resolution has no effect unless there are a different number of backlights, and even then it probably doesnt matter

You could save so much money on the dell if u went with the next step down processor (terrible idea to do top-of-the-line, unless you wanna dump 500 dollars out the window) and bought the ram after-market. I have that dell configured to...

yes, as others have said it is not possible to get "good" sound out of laptop speakers, even the harmon-kardon ones are pretty worthless get some decent external speakers, klipsch makes an excellent 2.1 set in the 150 dollar...

yeah definently dont bring a laptop to high school, heard of several gettin stolen electronics seem to be a very popular target for thieves in high school

Id guess is prolly around a 6600 gt in a desktop

for what your going to be doing it honestly doesnt matter, but personally id take the core duo

Is that screen resolution correct? If it is that is extremely high pixel density for a 14" screen. Otherwise looks like a solid deal.

I just finished my freshman year as a comp eng. student and my advice is to get something in your price range, since a power computer you buy now will be crap in a year and at least for the intro computer architecture classes and comp...