Got the call from the semi-comprehendable irishman at alienware telling me that it’s been dispatched and I will get it Monday (that was awfully confident. no ‘should’ or ‘may’)
Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
1GB ram.
40GB hard disk (small by today’s standards but I needed to knock down the price somehow. price is also why it’s 3.0 and not 3.4 Ghz)
Built in wireless network reciever.
Graphics: I can’t remember if I chose the radeon mobility 9700 or the geforce go 5700.
Alienware laptop case.
Green.
Anyone wanna buy a desktop???
How many paychecks did it set you back?
p.s. - Is this in relation to your thread about sitting zoom in Word?
Yay, I got it today! It came in a f____g HUGE box!
Let’s just say it’s the most I’ve ever spent in one go. Other than on a house and possibly a car I don’t think I’ll spend that much again.
The first thing that struck me is how high the screen res can go. I turned it on for the first time to be presented with this cavernous desktop with a tiny weeny little start button in the bottom left.
The internal wireless card wasn’t detecting my home network so tinkered and had to change it from ‘a’ to ‘b’ (802.11) and from American to English. It’s worked all day but in the past few hours it keeps disconnecting at random.
Also windows update won’t see it (the network connection) it keeps saying ‘connect’ and when you click it tells you to start the network up, but everything else network wise is working at the time.
3dmark 2003 benchmark did better than expected (I was expeting it to perform about the same as my desktop p4 but it made a mockery). The score was between 3 and 4 thousand.
The eyes of the alien light up. green or yellow (no it’s not optional, I am colour blind so it’s one of those colours) when it’s plugged in and blue when it’s running on battery.
Bluetooth doesn’t seem to work. it and my other bluetooth thing couldn’t see eachother.
It’s a shame the dvd/cdrw drive(s) on laptops have to be so flimsy. this one is. you have to hold it while putting a cd in for fear of snapping it off.
P.S. don’t you just hate it when you drag yourself out of bed at 8am to be ready for an expected delivery and the delivery happens at 4:30pm.