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PatGreen
 Post subject: tech nerds! assemble!!!
PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:33 am 
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is this a good buy?

http://sellout.woot.com/offers/lenovo-t ... e-laptop-4

i have an old ibm/lenovo thinkpad and the thing was bulletproof. it's just slow now because it's from 2007 i think, and I can't really upgrade it to make it faster. i really like the keys that aren't loud and it just is a nice computer. i want something that's going to feel the same but obviously perform better.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:41 am 
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Definitely a good price and thinkpads are built very well.
I can't speak for that AMD processor though, never used one although it's a decent speed. It could use more memory but that's about it and memory is cheap.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:53 am 
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Agreed. Make sure you can upgrade that RAM. Windows 7 is going to run like dogshit with only 2.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:08 am 
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so i can probably play hearts with 2 gigs of ram, right?


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You'll be able to start windows and not do too much more...you'd definitely want to get at least 4 or 6Gb in there.
It says it's expandable to 8Gb so you should be fine.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:53 am 
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I just bought my first PC with an AMD processor in years, and lo and behold, it shit the bed after a couple weeks.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:02 pm 
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everyone knows i was joking about the hearts thing right? i'm not that stupid


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:30 pm 
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NYIntensity wrote:
I just bought my first PC with an AMD processor in years, and lo and behold, it shit the bed after a couple weeks.


Yeah, I've always been an intel guy...you can't go wrong with an Intel brand MB and proc.
I was actually a little surprised to see AMD in a thinkpad.

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PatGreen wrote:
everyone knows i was joking about the hearts thing right? i'm not that stupid

Of course you were joking...you play solitaire

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:40 pm 
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spades. en garde


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Real men play FreeCell.

Also, XC, I'm with ya. I'll never go back to AMD.

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I've never had problems with AMD chips. Used to have a ton of machines with XP1800s. Then, went to an X2 4400+ for a LONG time. Probably 4 years on that machine.

Only when I built my current i7 did I go back.


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Squanto wrote:
I've never had problems with AMD chips. Used to have a ton of machines with XP1800s. Then, went to an X2 4400+ for a LONG time. Probably 4 years on that machine.

Only when I built my current i7 did I go back.


The i-series in general has been awesome for Intel. My laptop uses an i5, but I want to build a desktop with an i7.

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