Re: Ode to trip over a pin oak root n hit my lumbering melon on a laptop that is Excalibur.
MJG
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I bought this last March - The internals are great, and you can't beat it for the price.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9172879&st=ASUS+x83vm&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218044029788
Upside:
Fast processor; fast front side bus;
Lots o' Memory;
1 GB dedicated Video Memory
Downside:
Cheesy Speakers (the sound controls enable full dolby surround through external speakers);
It's a Best Buy exclusive;
No BlueTooth (I got a twenty dollar mini dongle from NewEgg - make sure it runs on Vista 64);
It has an annoying glitch in the video - if you try to run older format video source (16 bit AVI) it switches the display settings to 16 bit and a white ASUS wall paper displays - No Desktop. You have to go into the display settings and re-set to 32 bit to get the desktop back again.
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Where once We the People held capitalism’s leash, now we wear the collar.
Where once We the People held capitalism’s leash, now we wear the collar.
MJG
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I bought this last March - The internals are great, and you can't beat it for the price.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9172879&st=ASUS+x83vm&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218044029788
Upside:
Fast processor; fast front side bus;
Lots o' Memory;
1 GB dedicated Video Memory
Downside:
Cheesy Speakers (the sound controls enable full dolby surround through external speakers);
It's a Best Buy exclusive;
No BlueTooth (I got a twenty dollar mini dongle from NewEgg - make sure it runs on Vista 64);
It has an annoying glitch in the video - if you try to run older format video source (16 bit AVI) it switches the display settings to 16 bit and a white ASUS wall paper displays - No Desktop. You have to go into the display settings and re-set to 32 bit to get the desktop back again.
–--
Where once We the People held capitalism’s leash, now we wear the collar.
Where once We the People held capitalism’s leash, now we wear the collar.
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Ode to trip over a pin oak root n hit my lumbering melon on a laptop that is Excalibur. – messybear on June 9th, 2009-
Re: Ode to trip over a pin oak root n hit my lumbering melon on a laptop that is Excalibur. – MJG on June 9th, 2009-
Re: Ode to trip over a pin oak root n hit my lumbering melon on a laptop that is Excalibur. – messybear on June 9th, 2009
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Re: Ode to trip over a pin oak root n hit my lumbering melon on a laptop that is Excalibur. – Andrea on June 9th, 2009
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Ode to my lumbering melon – messybear on June 10th, 2009
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Re: Ode to my lumbering melon – MJG on June 10th, 2009
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