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post #21 of 113
6/22/04 at 1:58pm
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Originally Posted by Spookymonster
One thing about Hypersonic though is they have a rep for taking forever to build and ship a system. If you ask them, they'll say they've mostly worked out these issues. However, 2 days after I placed my order, they pushed my expected ship date back by 2 weeks (?!?!), presumably due to a high volume of orders. This doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

My expected ship date is still 3 weeks away, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. Who knows - maybe they'll surprise me yet!
Ya, I read the reviews as I said and over half of them were delayed etc.. But if you also read the reviews, the people love the customer service, love the computers, and.. *poke*
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post #22 of 113
6/22/04 at 2:04pm
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Wow. Really, really informative. Thanks for the constant check ups on my thread guys. I think I understand this much better.

Two things though.

I read in a review of the Radeon 9700 something I didn't understand. The reviewer used a laptop thats "native" (?) screen size was 1400x1050. He said this in a negative way, as if it almost interfeared with the results of the test. What did he mean?

Also, my brother has an Apple Powerbook. It has the nice metal, case. I really like the feel of that in my hands. It looks to me like the Compal CL56 has a plastic case (from discountlaptops.com at least) while the hypersonic's one is metal, and navy colored as well. Can anyone tell me if this is true or not? I'm inclined to buy the hypersonic over the Cl56 or the Battalion for this reason. Is it just the lighting?

If I'm wrong, and those 3 are plastic, anyone know of a comparable laptop (price/weight) with metal casing?

Thanks again.
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post #23 of 113
6/22/04 at 2:08pm
yeah that's a very high resolution, so it will slow things down if you run it at that. And all CL56s are the same, that's just lighting. The case is plastic with brushed aluminum.
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post #24 of 113
6/22/04 at 2:16pm
Thread Starter 
interesting reviews at resellerratings.com

I don't know what to think. I like the blue color of the hypersonic... but its not really worth the extra 150 dollars

Although... the customer service is amazing there.... And I might need that. I'm not very good with laptops yet. This'll be my first
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post #25 of 113
6/22/04 at 2:29pm
The CL56 is metallic blue at ibuypower as well; the quality of the picture on the site isn't that good.
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post #26 of 113
6/22/04 at 3:26pm
yup, in a nutshell they are all the same laptops. Most of them probably source from the same distributors too.
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post #27 of 113
6/22/04 at 5:17pm
now if you get the hypersonic CL56, it does have several coats and paint and a clear coat on it, so it will feel more sturdy, not like plastic, but more like metal...it won't be, but it will feel that way...and it will look that way so in theory you could lie
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post #28 of 113
6/22/04 at 5:49pm
does even the standard hypersonic cl56 come with paint? i know it's an option to have "reflexive" paint, but they cost like 350 more. is the "metallic navy" or whatever (the cheapest one) from hypersonic the same as the finish on the ibuypower cl56?
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post #29 of 113
6/22/04 at 5:50pm
yes, its the same as all the others
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post #30 of 113
6/22/04 at 5:52pm
thank the lord. that just would have been one more reason for me to debate spending more for hypersonic over ibuypower .
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post #31 of 113
6/22/04 at 6:42pm
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Originally Posted by 0asa

I read in a review of the Radeon 9700 something I didn't understand. The reviewer used a laptop thats "native" (?) screen size was 1400x1050. He said this in a negative way, as if it almost interfeared with the results of the test. What did he mean?
the native resolution of an lcd is the optimal resolution it was designed to run at. thus you will get best results viewing at this res as opposed to a lower res (for ex 1024x768); it may appear blurry or otherwise altered if you try to change it.


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Originally Posted by 0asa
If I'm wrong, and those 3 are plastic, anyone know of a comparable laptop (price/weight) with metal casing?

Thanks again.
the asus w1 is aluminum. only has 64mb of vram currently compared to 128mb of the cl56 plus you will pay a large price for it.
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post #32 of 113
6/22/04 at 9:57pm
Thread Starter 
It looks like Hypersonic is getting my money. Ibuypower.com is very enticing, but I've heard some very very bad things about them. It's 180 dollars less @ Ibuypower.com, but the pain you have to go through just to get it or to fix it seems horrible.

It's really too bad.

Any last words of wisdom before I drop $2000 on a laptop?

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post #33 of 113
6/22/04 at 10:06pm
GO FOR IT!!! I don't think you'll regret it!
I love my CX5...
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post #34 of 113
6/23/04 at 12:57am
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Originally Posted by Tourney2112
Hypersonic installs AS on their cpus but it's no big deal at all. Many CL56s have been ordered from ibuypower with no dead pixels or AS on the cpu and the lappy still runs very cool.
Based on my reading, I think I'd probably disagree. Sounds like the people who have received laptops with thermal pads and replaced them with Artic Silver have met with positive results.
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post #35 of 113
6/23/04 at 1:10am
positive results stemming from the placebo effect yes.
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post #36 of 113
6/23/04 at 3:04am
Thread Starter 
Hey, erm, sorry to be a moron here, but whats the difference between a Banias and a Dothan Pentium-M?
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post #37 of 113
6/23/04 at 3:24am
banias = 1 mb l2 cache
dothan = 2 mb l2 cache

Good luck with the laptop, i went with the cl56 from ibuypower and it's amazing. I can run any half-life or steam based games at native res and its pegged at 100fps all the time. Runs farcry and halo just fine at lower resolutions with other settings on high.

Doesn't sound like you are still considering ibuypower but if you are, my experiance wasn't terrible. They told me they had the 1.8 dothan in stock, but this was not the case... took a little longer to get it shipped but they gave me a free shipping upgrade. The cl56 is great and looks much better in person that most of the pics i have seen.
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post #38 of 113
6/23/04 at 10:29am
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Originally Posted by Hibby
Based on my reading, I think I'd probably disagree. Sounds like the people who have received laptops with thermal pads and replaced them with Artic Silver have met with positive results.
Thank you for commenting. I'll reiterate myself once again. AS is no big deal. Your laptop CL56 will run very smoothly without it. It is not needed; it is a luxury.
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post #39 of 113
6/23/04 at 8:09pm
Thread Starter 
Hey, was wondering what is wrong with the ECS G556e?

Nobody has recommended that?
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post #40 of 113
6/23/04 at 8:12pm
the name ECS gives me nightmares. end of story.
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