Posts by Durjaya

Quote: Originally Posted by jolley There is nothing more pathetic than a wannabe techie/gamer on a shoe-string budget! Sure there is - those of us with too much credit card debt

What's your price point? The Gateway is probably the best bet $$ wise (or maybe that new eMachine with ATI 9600 and AMD 64) ... still - eMachine's scare me - Lots of good systems to be had with the combo you're looking for - just...

Yeah - about right now I'd be willing (and happy) to play KOTOR at 800x600 - it just won't go on the T-Pad. Strange as it plays everything else I throw at it just fine. The Bioware support thread for KOTOR is huge though and lots of...

Wow...you're having to play KOTOR at 800x600 on that monster of yours ( 8887X - 3.06Ghz HT \\ 1GB RAM \\ ATI M9 128M) Something's up with that. Right now I can't play KOTOR on my T41p at all. I make it through character creation...

going along with the 'money is no object' category: IBM T41p ThinkPad (Pentium M 1.7 - 128 Meg Fire GL T2) IBM R51p ThinkPad (same, same with bigger LCD) Both are fantastic - I own the T41p now and love it. Turns a 2557 in...

Get that R50p or a T41p - You won't be disapointed (okay - I'm biased)

Quote: Originally Posted by deltawalkerl Some Centrino/M10 notebooks: Asus M6N Gateway M505X/L Elitegroup G556/Voodoo m:460 Dell I8600 AOpen 1557G/ABS zForce F2 I thought the Dell 8600 was a 128 9600 Pro...

Ohh...follow-up - now that I think of it - can you point me to some of those 64 meg M10 based systems? I guess I just haven't seen any.

Yeah - M10 based systems are going to be a lot faster - but from what I (thought) was implied - was that he was looking for something that might fit various bills (gaming/school/not a boat anchor) equally well. The M9 based systems...

Yeah - confirmed that - it's an accellerometer (sp?) or something to that affect. It simply detects movement (like when you drop your laptop) and simply sends a signal to the hd to lock out and stop writing in order to protect itself. ...