how much $?

1500-2500 i could stretch i aint going away this year i dont think so it's there if i want to spend it

get driving lessons or something u bum

good idea that, have the DVLA form right in front of me as well

need photos, booths keep breaking when i attempt... something is not right

you are breaking the camera? :P

the camera, then the seat cus im so heavy! wtf =[

lol

heh

we all know you want that money to spend an intimate night with a russian quake player

"tide" you over is the phrase you wanted :)

ahh, deafness ftw yet another expression i have misheard over the years

you can use either.

The expression comes from having enough of something to keep you going, like having the tide on your side pushing you in the right direction? I'm not sure what "tie you over" would mean.

Yeah your proabaly right. As you say it doesn't make any sense really but I have definately heard it being said around here.

Didnt Blondie do a cover of that song..... "The Tie Is High" :D

Atomic Kittens tbh!

Don't buy a new PC, most current games should run on your comp anyway (Q3 bestest) and all new games seem to suck anyway. A new notebook will most likely be enough to run most games right now and in the near future anyway, it's doing fine here already. IBM are by far the best notebooks (can hear that everywhere), I myself got an Acer which is quite nice aswell. Make sure you know what you'll need it for (mine is basically a desktop replacement and I use it to watch movies at times, so a huge screen is no problem, specs are meeting current requirements for most games so it's suiting my needs quite well), there's a wide range of what you can get. I'll just have a look and search my journal where I asked what to look for when I was buying my notebook back then, hang on.

edit: http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=828850
wouldn't go for HP, Acer beats it by miles. Go check some stores and have a look at the notebooks and their quality before you even think about buying one!

if i were to go laptop it would be a gaming one :\ for the sake of it haha

i really can't make my mind up right now

if my mates were boring cunts i would fuck off on hols but no one wants to go :(

then you woke up =(

if you are one of the few who actually do work on their notebook, there's no way around a thinkpad if you aren't completely insane.

i cant believe you recommend acer when i think of the horror stories i heard from a couple of uni colleagues :)

What makes an IBM notebook so much better than ones from ASUS, Toshiba, Sony, etc? :o

an IBM thinkpad.

answer:
- keyboard(!)
- trackpoint
- harddisk protection system
- fingerprint reader + harddisk encryption
- material of the case (higher durability)
- better wlan signal (due to the position of the receiver on the top left side of the screen, not somewhere under the keyboard)
- thinkvantage software and update system
- 3 year guarantee
- my 9 cell battery

there's a reason NASA uses thinkpads on their space shuttles :)

and somehow they still manage to crash stuff on planets because they slow down their whatever like 2km too late..
most of that stuff is pretty 'hardcore', I don't need fingerprint stuff and top notch security. I got an Acer and it runs flawlessly, the quality is great and WLAN works aswell (although I hate WLAN). I agree IBM is ahead, but it's not like you couldn't go for anything else. Especially if you can't spend a shitload of money IBM is hardly an option as they're just 1.5 the price of an notebook with similar specs from other companies.

thats true, the money is a dealbreaker if you dont belong to the student/press category in order to enjoy the massive! discounts.

(for comparison: i bought a T43 for EUR 1699,- which normally is priced at 3599,- without discount)

if you play with your notebook, there's a lot of better tech out there for sure - but for work, thinkpads are pure joy. you dont have to lift of your hands from the "home line" on the keyboard to move your pointer thanks to the great trackpoint. if you are a vi(m) user, you know the efficiency gain :)

btw. dont feel offended when i trash-talk about acer, it's just insane how fucked up the acer ferrari's of two friends of me are :)

I got an Extensa (not avail anymore I think), and I try to avoid vim where possible :D (bad memories from uni :/). I'm using my MX510 anyway so for me trackpoint/decent touchpad is not important at all. Depends on what you need, how hardcore you are and how much money/access to discounts you have :)

hehe, i also cursed at vim at first, thanks to its deeeep learning curve. but i got forced to learn it at my job and eventually improved so much that i miss the keys everywhere else :)

:wq

oh shit my friend just bought a HP from a local store (went to bestbuy then futureshop) and I was with him!

if it fits his needs there's nothing wrong with it. hopefully the notebook turns out to be good :)

Don't buy nothing yet.
DX10 won't be out until next year and games like UT and Crysis are the next gen games.

W8 until Xmas. At least.

then at xmas the latest super mega thing is out and he should wait another 3 months...

haha true can never keep on top

Jamerio is right though, DX10 is a big step and essential if you want to run Vista properly.

the key word here is run which doesn't mean it will run smoothly not to mention games. the current hardware won't run those games at full speed with max detail. so either he should buy now or wait 6 months for things to settle down.

buy me a black DS LITE


pls pls pls

yr family r rich!

london burgui!

sif man

i got a mortgage to pay

im poor

U NEED ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO PLAY CS

true true, thats the gaol, thats the gaol

gaol = jail? :)

asking cos i wanna know :)

fs am drunk atm n like i was sober when i typed tht omgomgogmogmgmogoogmogmgggg


:
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wtf whre u get jsil from?

i am pretty sure gaol is the old spelling of jail

have a happy hangover mate :)

e: Gaol, early Modern English for a place of legal detention. Although currently spelt as jail in American and general British usage, gaol is still considered the official spelling in Australian English; both spellings have the same pronunciation. In American usage jails and prisons are very different and used for different purposes, but British English does not make the same distinction.

from wiki

yay

well that was something informative for when the world was spinning!

no such thing as a happy hangover :(

yes, u are right, but i think he meant goal

yeah i understood that, i was just curious if gaol was infact jail :9 so curious thatm i had to eventually google it :)

get all next-gen consoles rather than a new comp, the quality of recent pc games (post-2004) is just shit.
ffs, im playing starcraft on an x800xl.

damn you man, you never told me that you play sc! ;) i also played that beast pretty often - now i kinda switched to wc3 ^^

majix!! :D
sc is awesome i suck at it tho i can play it for like days at a time, not like quake. yesterday i was seriously trying to improve my terran skillz, so i got like 10 more defeats on my account.

i might play wc3 but i dont have a copy of the game... (need cdkey) so i'll get it eventually.

why dont i play quake? coz nobody but leetzors and noobs play it, theres no average middle class really anymore, so i either rape or get raped, but no equal, close matches.

and you are god for putting up a guide on customizing desktop... i have a mac look now, its so soft on the eyes, its wonderful. so [+] for that.

hehe, good to hear the news about your deskmodding - i'm really into this kind of thing man. as i need to spend a lot of time on the computer, i want my environment to be looking nice :)

btw. i miss the sc times; i think i should reinstall it so we can have a little fun - but you should also try wc3. i sometimes play the 'dota' map with my gf besides the usual games.

yeah absolutely id give w3 a try, plus the scene is huge (lan tournaments every weekend here in a chain of certified quality cyber cafes). i just need to save up to buy a copy...

hey and i got a 7 on my german exam in my 'abitur' diploma one year early hehe... my high school diploma is the international bacchalaureate diploma, and 7 is the best grade, so im like yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee fotzennnn :D
graduating this year weeeee :)

hehe nice, dann könnten wir uns ja in zukunft auf deutsch unterhalten :)

btw. you have to save to get a pc game? go start a part-time job, damnit! ;)

ich hab kein zeit...
schule endet sich jeden tag um 14:45
volleyball montag, mittwoch und freitag von 16:00 bis 17:30
donnerstag hab spiel ich in eine jazz gruppe von 15:00 bis 16:30
und alles was noch bleibt ist fur hausaufgaben...
wirklich kein zeit :/

deswegen yes i must save up :/

current desk:
http://www.intothespirit.com/?q=images/mar2k6_clean

:)

go window shopping in amsterdam

jst in woo good fun watched a freind bear up a freind was funny, lotsa milf im notts!

chav

hahaha

hmmm i remember!

although I have no idea what it was about :*(

I do agree with who ever said wait till DX10, holidays at earliest but whatever right?

this is done in USD and off Newegg, i dont think they ship over seas

Case COOLER MASTER Centurion5: $45 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119047

PowerSupply COOLER MASTER RS-500 500W: $105
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817171010

Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+: $295
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103544

Motherboard ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 $136
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131540

Memory, RAM OCZ 2GB $240
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227210

Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar SE $88
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136036

Graphics eVGA 7950GX2 1Gig $533
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130023


Totals
1,433 U.S. dollars = 1,118.74463 Euros
according to google

ya I don't know, you could go all out and spend a crap load of money but thats what will get you by for the next few years, tons of changes could be made, just my little setup, some prices could be off due to rebates and so forth so thats a give or take price

I would still settle on waiting for vista and all its "wonderful" technology changes it will bring along

i wish they did ship to UK, but I doubt they do

they are absurdly cheap prices compared to ours

you also have to calculate import taxes if you order from the us

Hmm, i read " hmm new pic", and thought: "hm, that's a pretty cool pic"

soo mMm, pretty cool pic :)

the tongue or mr keith richards? :P

keith:)

i found it disturbing! although it's a brilliant drawing

Buy a Blackberry.
everyone has one at my job.

poor them

hi zimmerman

fgfgfg

2000 quid you say?

crazy money :P

4400 duel core 1meg cache
1900xt graphics card
i want these..

whats a dx10?

direct x 10 :)

next gen cards

if you don't travel a lot, a notebook is a very wrong idea,
you won't be satisfied with it. If you want the notebook as secondary pc, it most likely will only lay around and you won't be satisfied neither. If you don't travel, then get only one pc, and a real pc, not a notebook ... big screen is very important, invest most of your money into the screen ... maybe you should also think of apple, since you don't game ... the os is quite good, based on bsd ... and windows will be released for the mac too, soon. And mac is something more exclusive, if you need it :-)

apple....


lolz


oh you're serious?

how's life wock?

not to shabby.

getting the inet in the flat at some point.

so quake binges ahoy :D