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Have just be told I can order one of these "for work"....

DH's shiny new RL laptop

2nd from left - with the SLI 9800GT... :D 8)
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:shock: Jealous :D
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Post by overmage »

3dmark06 of 12184. Nice!

my new laptop only has 6633. Ah well, but I'd be wary of Dell laptops after a few years.. but if you're only getting one for 'work'... :twisted:
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Cool :D

How does one join Torchwood and get such a shiny laptop for free, too? :P

Must ... stop ... teasing ... DaddyHoggy :(

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DaddyHoggy wrote:
Have just be told I can order one of these "for work"....

DH's shiny new RL laptop

2nd from left - with the SLI 9800GT... :D 8)
NICE!!!

Make sure that you get Vista 64 bit, otherwise you cannot really use the additional memory beyond 2 GiB!

The vendor of my machine pre-installed the OS and took 32 bit while offering "64 bit technology" - and won't exchange the OS. I tried to talk to M$, but those are only robots repeating over and over that I need that vendor to exchange it without listening that that vendor sells 32bit as 64bit and doesn't exchange it. *GRRR* At least they should put pressure on such companies or stop them from selling their products!

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Make sure that you get Vista 64 bit,...
then get frustrated with it and go back to XP, like so many others...
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Very paying extra to have Vista taken off and XP-64bit installed instead... :roll:
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Very paying extra to have Vista taken off and XP-64bit installed instead... :roll:
Hey, I bet you don't want to play DirectX 10 games, so this may be the even better solution ;)

I tried to get my original XP X64 on the Vista machine as secondary OS for DirectX9 and other games, but somehow the installer always hangs up :(

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We only use DX10 for tech demos of emerging technologies - so we'll have one or two machines (we're buying four of these) with dual boot XP64/Vista so we can demo DX10 - we currently use four machines (desktop) networked together - two running XP, two running Vista - playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Skies to highlight the diffs between DX9 and DX10
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Nice. Ooh, very nice!

Be careful with Dell though, they can be a bit machiavellian as far as support goes. Products are generally good, but I found they were built to fail after a certain lifespan.

This is just my experience, but be careful with the power connector...
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