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| Anarchy - Aug-21-2005 server time |
| confuuuuusing |
| Red Squirrel - Aug-15-2005 server time |
| It's gone now, stuff on tigerdirect is there for like a few days, the it's gone, but they pissed me off by having a cheaper one a day after I ordered it, and it was full blown AMD 2700+ system with 512MB of ram etc.. it was equivalent to my old machine... for 200 bucks! They did the same with a UPS I ordered too... just my bad luck.  I wanted to get another of those UPSes but they sold out. A good site to keep track of though,lot of awesome deals. Not sure how they do it, really. |
| travis - Aug-15-2005 server time |
| Which one did you buy, I am thinking about buying one off there. My parents will probably be like you dont need anymore computers, but I just want one more, for a linux server. |
| Red Squirrel - Aug-15-2005 server time |
LOL yeah. That's what I have in my "what was going to be" my firewall box until I scored a sweet firewall on tigerdirect so now it's just a spare machine, so I'll be putting another stick of 256 (got a spare one lying around) and use it as a low end machine for testing stuff or something. Scary that my firewall would of been more powerful then your main machine.  Oh yeah speaking of which, if it's not too late check tigerdirect they have barebones systems for like 200 bucks sometimes. That's where I got my firewall box from, figured even if I dont use it as firewall it's a nice little machine for 200 bucks. I don't know how they do it though, the cpu and ram alone cost over 200 bucks together if you buy it seperately. |
| Cold Drink - Aug-15-2005 server time |
| Your gonna wish you had more RAM in a couple months. |
| Fuzzy_Fox - Aug-15-2005 server time |
| This is the one I'm probably getting. I managed to convince my dad to not buy it last night. Base Model Includes: Intel® Celeron® M 350 (1.3 GHz, 400MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache) Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition 256MB Shared10 DDR SDRAM 14.1" XGA Display 30GB5 Ultra/ATA Hard Drive 24x DVD/CD-RW Drive 8-Cell NiMH battery Starting at 6.33 lbs One year Limited Warranty4 and One year Mail-in Service I think we added a mouse, a cheap printer, and...probably another random thing or two. The end price was 753$. |
| travis - Aug-15-2005 server time |
| Well my brother is totally addicted to UO and CoD. Well he has a celeron 2.0 in his machine and 512. But he does complain he says yeah it runs my game fine but I want something faster. I said that it would cost more to get a P4 then to just buy liek one of those motherboard and cpu combos from tiger direct. |
| MikeDB - Aug-15-2005 server time |
| hehehe OW3ND! |
| Cold Drink - Aug-14-2005 server time |
| http://techdiscussions.com/forums/index.ph...topic=2772&st=0 First you need to decide if you want a mobile laptop or a desktop replacement laptop. For the former, your not going to beat a Pentium-M / Centrino (yes yes, nomanclature issues aside...). If not, don't expect to carry the thing around or run off battery... ever. If you can break away from Windows, you'll have a hard time finding hardware that can rival Apple's, particularly for laptops. |
| Red Squirrel - Aug-14-2005 server time |
| Games? You'll want at least a P4, especially for intense games. Heck, I doubt UO would run well on a celeron. I would not suggest using a laptop for your gaming machine though, if finaces are there build a desktop PC for playing games. That way you can put a new video card every 3 weeks when the latest game won't run on your curent one. |
| Fuzzy_Fox - Aug-14-2005 server time | ||
Nooo, I mean playing games . This computer (PIII) has been with me since the year 2000, or 2001. So I haven't played anything interesting lately. College is probably a bad time to catch up on that though. |
| travis - Aug-14-2005 server time |
| Celeron's level 1 and level 2 caches are horrible, but that doesnt really come into play until you start doing some hardcore ish. I have a laptop, Dell Latitude D600. The pentium m processors arent that bad. When I open up cpu-z it says i have 2mb of level 2 cache, I dont know if that is correct though, because thats a lot! My only problem with it is that cpu-z also says its running at 100 x 6 and this is a 1.6 ghz processor. So it should be 16 x 100. When I went into the BIOS it doesnt let you change the multiplier or even the FSB. I guess pentium m's are locked up. |
| Red Squirrel - Aug-14-2005 server time |
| Other things then word? such as hacking? you should be fine, since it's mostly text anyway, mind you it may crawl on the ssh encryption part. Nah I don't think they're THAT bad, a 3Ghz celeron should be almost half as good as an AMD 2000 |
| Fuzzy_Fox - Aug-14-2005 server time |
Obviously I'll be using it for more than word  . I just don't want to tell my parents that. So do you know if Celerons are still as bad as people think they? |
| Red Squirrel - Aug-14-2005 server time |
| Well if it's just for word processing and stuff even a celeron will do. Just don't expect Ms word to open in under 3 seconds like on my Athlon desktop. I should get a laptop too... would be fun. |
| Fuzzy_Fox - Aug-14-2005 server time |
| My dad was saying Celrons only had that overheating problem at the start, and they're fine now. ...I'm not going to take his word on it though, since I know you guys pay more attention to that then he would. His computer is a Celeron, and he said he's never had problems with it. Anyways, I'm getting a laptop for college before I leave town, and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions (since my dad's planning on looking up options ). |
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