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offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2005-03-03 05:01 [#01519876]
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Not sure what to get, money is no worry. Basically I'm
asking what would be the best thing to get with this in
mind:

Producing Music
Uploading, rendering, editing, and producing films
Playing games like DOOM III at a very reasonable quality.
Burning dvds
Lots of space for videos, music, shows, etc.

Also, can all this be done with a very good laptop? I've
always wanted one.
Thanks for any help you may shed on this.



 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2005-03-03 05:18 [#01519883]
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if money is no worry, i'd go for an alienware laptop.


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2005-03-03 05:19 [#01519885]
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better link


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2005-03-03 05:22 [#01519886]
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I've been thinking about getting a new computerr. Again,
money is no worrrry (thank God forr crredit carrds). Mine is
a hopeless sack of shit.


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2005-03-03 05:23 [#01519887]
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mine is almost dead


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-03-03 06:07 [#01519915]
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I have an 800 dollar p4 2.8g box, with a 200 dollar
soundcard and a 340 dollar audiocard. I can play doom three
on high quality perfectly. It takes me 20 minutes to burn a
full dvd. Ripping is about the same.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-03-03 09:23 [#01520160]
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Cool shit except for the fact that the system i chose would
be:

Area-51m 7700 System

Unit Cost: $4,610.00
As low as $139 per month


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-03 09:38 [#01520195]
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Powerbook G4 or Powermac G5.

If you don't need a really powerful machine go for the Mac
Mini, its only £350!


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-03 09:42 [#01520211]
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my sister got the mac mini just the other day, its pretty
fast and its almost completely silent. I wish they had these
when I first switched to apple, my tower then cost almost
£1000!

mac mini

don't expect to be able to play Doom III on it though


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-03-03 09:48 [#01520217]
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They need to start making TB sized HDs


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-03 10:12 [#01520246]
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i think mac's are a bit of a no-no if you're wanting to play
decent games on your computer.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2005-03-03 10:19 [#01520257]
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I'd go for this model


Attached picture

 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-03-03 10:21 [#01520261]
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i'd have to agree with you there.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-03 10:55 [#01520313]
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unless you have a G5 tower... i'm pretty sure that can play
any game there is with a decent video card in it. Games
these days are mostly reliant on video cards rather than
processer power.


 

offline pantalaimon from Winterfell (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-03 10:56 [#01520314]
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hey, that looks nicer than the average pc tower!


 

offline Dozer on 2005-03-06 08:43 [#01523234]
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I'm very proud of my new laptop:

Acer Aspire 1691 WLMi

Intel pentium M 730 centrino(2MB cache,1,6GHZ,533MHZ FSB)
Screen 15,4"
ATI Mobility Radeon X600 64MB VRAM
HD 80GB
Double Layer DVD
512MB RAM
wifi(802.11b)
Weight 2.95kg



 

offline Anus_Presley on 2005-03-07 08:32 [#01524219]
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I'm still looking forr a new laptop. I just get all
flusterred though. Can someone list some of the stuff that's
a must forr a fast-ish computerr, like RAM and stuff, so I
can take it with me.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-03-07 08:34 [#01524223]
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I love you, Carl.

I know this won't help you much in your quest for a laptop,
but I still wanted you to know this.


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2005-03-07 08:39 [#01524232]
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It doesn't, but it's lovely to hearr all the same. I love
you, too. But you knew it.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2005-03-07 08:40 [#01524234]
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I love Carl too.


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-07 08:42 [#01524237]
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Lap Top Must Have List:

RAM
Screen
Plugs
Vacuum
Main Chip
Wire
Data Bank
Web
Matrix
RUM


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-03-07 08:42 [#01524238]
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I too love carl and offer the following advice:

Big ass harddrive. I maxed out a 40 gig in mere weeks. Dont
let this happen to you!


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-03-07 08:46 [#01524242]
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that's awesome!


 

offline Anus_Presley on 2005-03-07 08:55 [#01524250]
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Basically I'm fucked, arren't I?
I'm just going to pick one with the highest stuff. In my
mind they arre all as bad and as good as each otherr.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2005-03-07 09:19 [#01524297]
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Carrl.

Hitachi have just released a lovely 500gig hard drive. I
would get one myself but I've imposed a ban on stopping
myself getting a new hard drive until htey relese a terabyte
one. (Unless one fails on me or something.)

Get yourself a nice 70gig 10,000 rpm main drive which you
can have as your C: drive. Then a couple of other drives
taht you can use as d:program files x:my documents. spreads
everything about a lot nicer.

I'm wishing I'd gone the 3 drives route rather than
partitioning.

REAL MEN DON'T BACK UP! THEY UPLOAD TO AN FTP AND LET
EVERYONE ELSE MIRROR IT.

-That Linux dude.


 


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