Posts by cynicalicious

Just an FYI-- Best Buy has added a $150 rebate on top of the $100 Sony rebate on the FS660/W. I went to the local one and got the extra rebate form since I just got it last week. Their policy on laptops is 14 days on those kinds of...

I don't play CS, but I think it should run just fine. FarCry runs very nicely. It's not as jaw-dropping gorgeous as it would be on a more maxxed out machine, but it plays smoothly in 1280x800 native res, and that's all you really...

It gets a little warm, but then again, all notebooks do. It feels reasonably firm, but I don't think I'd like to try the 3-ft. drop test, as I'm not too sure how it would fare. Then again, I wouldn't try that with any of today's laptops....

Ok, got WoW up and running as well. After tweaking the video to suit the 6200, it positively glows. On install, WoW tried to tell me that I didn't have enough computer power to run the game, but you can safely ignore that. Install was...

Ok, finally got FFXI up and running, and it looks great. It supports 1024x1024 backgrounds very smoothly at 1280x800 resolution, with all effects on. It looks fabulous at 2048x2048 background res (which is a registry hack, by the way),...

Well, the first thing I've discovered is that getting a clean install that doesn't include all of the junk that's on the recovery disks is a royal pain. While the recovery utility is handy for dumping all of the preinstalled stuff onto 2...

EDIT: This should probably go in the reviews forum, but I don't know how that works. I just picked one up today at Best Buy. It's silent, and the screen is perfect so far-- no dead pixels. They've got a $100 mail-in rebate going as...