Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:06 pm by DarkPacMan77
I bought an Everex xt5000t. It's the only model they make with a 17" screen - and trust me, I get comments on it all the time. It's $799.00 on Newegg usually, so it's a little high on the price range, but it's very fast and capable of pretty high-end gaming. There's no game it WON'T run, just some you may need to turn some settings down on.
Specs
Vista - but trust me, it's good. Zero crashes and outstanding performance.
100gb 5400 RPM hard drive (partitioned into two sections - maybe if you want to dual boot)
1gb of ram - I bought a second stick for only $40 on newegg. The type of ram is DDR2 533 @ 4-4-4-8 timings, and 2gb of it makes Vista cruise
7600 go graphics card with 256mb onboard/ dedicated memory. I've put Matrix Path of Neo, GTA San Andreas, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and others on here, and you can crank the graphics on them
two speakers and a mini sub-woofer
processor is an AMD Turion64 X2 (dual-core) 1.6ghz (rated at 3.12ghz over both cores) - also, the cores are Opteron, if you care to know
I can officially say that I've been dumbfounded by how good this thing is. I haven't been able to slow it down once, and the only two crashes I've ever had were from pirated applications that crashed the system - NOT from Vista. I used to be one of those complete Vista doubters, but until you actually own it and spend time on it, you will never realize how much potential it has to be a great product. And all of those issues about driver-this and driver-that - 95% of those old problems are fixed now, so as soon as you setup you security settings to what you are comfortable with, Vista will be a great, smooth-sailing operating system. I downed it all the way until the time I bought this laptop, and my original plans were to immediately scrap it and install XP SP2, but I stuck with Vista and I can honestly say it was the smart choice. Hope this gives you a nice option to look into... it's all I can really say from first-hand experience is a great laptop.
*edit* - If you opt to build your own PC, I'm sure I can come up with something for just about any price range. Just tell me what you'd expect to use it for.
-DarkPacMan77-
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DarkPacMan77 on Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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