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- Apoc - 09-13-2007
youporn is passe
redtube is superior
first with hover thumbs
- Ginger - 09-22-2007
Well, it showed up
![[Image: Picture062.jpg]](http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o61/SteeleA/Picture062.jpg)
- Mike - 09-22-2007
and wow.
- BLINGMW - 09-22-2007
booo
- Evan - 09-23-2007
bling! :thumbup:
- JackoliciousLegs - 09-23-2007
what do the 74 buttons all over it do?
- Ginger - 09-24-2007
Lets see:
The arrows changes the screen orientation (portait vs landscape)
The gear brings up various display adjustment controls
The circle arrow brings up Windows Media center
The DVD, obviously, brings up a DVD app of your choice
Power... is power.
... and the copper looking stripey thing on the other side, aside from being cool looking, is the finger print reader.
I'm not hating on macs by buying this thing... but I got it for an absolute steal, it's everything I was looking for (and more), and sends my bling meter through the roof. One particularly cool thing about the reversible touch screen is that one does not need to contort into strange and unnatural body positions to use the machine anywhere other than a desk. It's not perfect, though.
I should have taken Evan's advice and gotten a bigger hard drive than I did. I've got several 120gig IDE drives that make for enough storage, but I still need to find a good way to manage them for backups AND accesability. I have a USB external adapter but I know that they've been known to cause premature drive failure/wear so it's not something I want to rely on. The fingerprint scanner sucks, too. I've yet to get it to work well enough to use as a log on tool. Oh well, no big loss there. HP shipped the machine with a bunch of "buy this" and "look at all the cool services we shipped with your computer that eat processes for breakfast!" stuff... which I'm sorting out. I've been out of computer for a long time and it's taking me some time to adjust to Vista's removal of the "add or remove programs" feature.
All in all, though, for what I paid, I'm very happy. I'll be putting old Dell Latitude D800 on eBay shortly, so if anybody is interested in a machine with a questionable bios I'll have the link up soon.
*edit*
Yes, Vista's new visualizations are cool. If you highlight a a window name in the Windows toolbar at the bottom you get a small image of what that window looks like.. almost a thumbnail. The alt-tab feature producers a similar result. There is a somewhat redundant feature called "desktop switcher" or "application switcher", or something other PR Junky CommercialCool thing that I'd use they'd use Joe Camel to play up if they could, which again, produces another pseudo-similar result.
- Maengelito - 09-24-2007
andrew, gimme more details about the dell latitude you're ebaying. i'm very possibly interested
- .RJ - 09-24-2007
Maengelito Wrote:i'm very possibly interested
Need to monitor your intake manifold temps?
- Ginger - 09-24-2007
Maengelito Wrote:andrew, gimme more details about the dell latitude you're ebaying. i'm very possibly interested
Drop you a line shortly.
- Ginger - 01-10-2008
Well, I'm months in and I'm so-so. I'm non-complaint with Vista, it is what it is. I'm relatively happy with my component selection, too. As a tool, this machine works very well. It's not quite the blingtastic-awesome box I had in mind... but things rarely measure up.
The display only views properly from a very narrow angle-range and it's not -that- great. It's definitely a step up from my last machine, though, and far beyond passable. I'm constantly getting display driver updates from HP and they always fail... I can't get the NVidia drivers directly, though, because they don't include special button functionality. Lame.
But... I submitted a warrantly claim to HP today. You'll see that I bought the laptop in September and that it is now only January. The hinge has a half inch of slop in it. That really aggravates me. A techie friend of mine says it's relatively normal on aging laptops - I say that's a shit excuse. If you can't make something that lasts more than 6 months (as a laptop) then it isn't ready for release. This machine is probably extra-prone because it's a single hinge with a large range of motion... but I can't imagine it's THAT hard to make one that doesn't royally suck. I'll keep the warranty claim status posted here.
- .RJ - 01-10-2008
IBTshouldaboughtamac
- Ginger - 01-11-2008
Well, I got an email from Tech support this morning. It was half from-a-person, half-not. It seemed copy-pasted from a variety of documents, but sent by a specific individual.. that's comforting, I guess.
They're going to send me a box with packing material and a prepaid shipping label for warranty care. The initial email evaluation suggests that this should be a warrantied repair, but I won't have final confirmation until their people actually look at the box.
Since this will probably happen again after the repair, I'll probably sell it. I don't want a computer that turns to junk after 6 months.
- Mike - 01-11-2008
hp laptops suck, sorry, that's 0/2 for them now.
hp servers suck as well, they're 0/2 with me as well.
- .RJ - 01-11-2008
But, but... evan says you're WRONG! :lol:
- Apoc - 01-11-2008
HP = suck
- Evan - 01-11-2008
heh. 0/2? we're running over 100 HP servers right now just on this project. but hey, Mikey RulesÔäó to the resuce.
and like I said, my hp work laptop is the best ive had by far, Ive had every brand, and I beat the shit out of them. Buy what you want, I give not a shit.
- Apoc - 01-11-2008
You have enough of a shit to post a rebuttal.
- Evan - 01-11-2008
Apoc Wrote:You have enough of a shit to post a rebuttal.I have enough of a shit?
No, I dropped my shit this morning. On your sister's chest.
- Apoc - 01-11-2008
I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a need for a second, inferior laptop.