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Getting paid to go to college

Posted by Acid on June 28, 2011, 12:04 a.m.

Yeah, that's pretty much how things turned out.

So yeah, with this unexpected overflow of money, I'm purchasing a gaming/engineering pc for class… and games.

How is this, guys?

Case

Battalion 101 W150HNQ 15.6" HD+ 1600x900 Widescreen LED TFT Laptop w/HDMI Port, eSATA port, fingerprint Reader, Li-Ion Battery, Universal AC Power Adapter - Original Metallic Black

Processor

Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM Mobile Processor (4x 2.00GHz/6MB L3 Cache)

Memory

8GB [4GB x 2] 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM [Laptop Memory] Corsair or Major Brand

Video Card

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1GB GDDR3 3D Video [W150HNQ]

Primary Hard Drive

500 GB 7200rpm Serial-ATA Super Slim Laptop Hard Drive

Optical Drive

8x Dual Format DVD±R/±RW + 16x CD-R/RW Combo Drive [W150HNQ]

Flash Media Reader / Writer

Built-in 9-in-1 Media Card Reader/Writer [Laptop]

Sound Card

3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard

Network Card

Built-in 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN [Laptop]

Internal Wireless Network Adapter

Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi + Bluetooth Combo Half Mini

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium + Office Starter 2010 (Includes basic versions of Word and Excel) - 64-Bit

USB Ports

Built-in 2x USB 2.0 Ports + 2x USB 3.0 Port [Laptop]

Free Deluxe Carrying Case

Video Camera

Built-in 2.0 Mega Pixels Digital Web Video Camera

Warranty

Standard Warranty Service - Standard One(1) Year Limited Warranty + Lifetime Technical Support

Additional Software

1 x Microsoft Office 2010 Home and Student Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote included

Mouse

1 x iBUYPOWER Internet Mouse

Extras

1 x CoolerMaster SF-19 USB 3.0 Gaming Laptop Cooler Black

For $1182 +S&H

(I'm asking for help/comments because, though I'm halfway competent about hardware specs, I'm not up to date on the latest, greatest, and newest like some of you are.)

Also, stuff that's happened recently:

Bachelor party

Xbox 360 +lotso games

College - I love my schedule, now I gotta wait to actually attend (I got bumped up to a sophomore calc class. due to my placement test scores :D)

WEDDING IS SOON I AM SO EXCITE

Comments

Mush 13 years, 2 months ago

1. Are YOU getting married?

2. How/why are you getting paid for college?

3. What college?

Acid 13 years, 2 months ago

1. Yes.

2. Scholarships/FASFA/Possible Disability Benefits/CO-OPs - even if I don't get the disability stuff, the CO-OP's will more than reimburse me. Either way, I come out with more than I put in.

3. University of Toledo.

Kenon 13 years, 2 months ago

Cool, I had a similar situation, how much money per semester did you have to pay in total?

Also BEWARE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. That class WILL. EAT. YOU. ALIVE if you do not expect it to.

Rob 13 years, 2 months ago

500gb? I hope you've got an external / desktop. That graphics card should be somewhat decent as well. Good for a laptop I suppose. Just don't the same performance you'd get on a good desktop.

Josea 13 years, 2 months ago

I think it's good. 500 Gb is enough, unless you're planning to download lots of pirate games and porn.

Quote:

Also BEWARE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. That class WILL. EAT. YOU. ALIVE if you do not expect it to.

Differential equations is one of the easiest maths I've studied.

Acid 13 years, 2 months ago

I'm not going to take any classes lightly :P

This setup us better than my at home pc, but I know that for today's standards it's not "top of the line".

Juju, you're a mathbeast in most areas. I think it will be a challenge but I'm not worried.

Rob 13 years, 2 months ago

Quote:

I think it's good. 500 Gb is enough, unless you're planning to download lots of pirate games and porn.

But harddrives aren't that expensive. I bet you could get a 1tb drive for under $100 easily (laptop). I picked up this 2tb HDD for $69cdn (so you could probably do it for like $60 in the US), but it was a desktop drive.

I'm not saying that you should get a giant laptop drive, but investing in an external could prove useful.

Oh, and 2ghz quad? For a laptop I'd prefer a 3ghz dual (when my friend was picking out a laptop a 3ghz dual was waaaay cheaper option (I think changing to a 2ghz quad added like $600? it was retarded) than the 2ghz quad, but maybe prices have changed)… would probably be cheaper too. Then again, I have a quad on my desktop, but the difference between the dual core i5s and quad core i5s was negligible (2.67ghz vs 3.1ghz IIRC), especially since I can just OC it to 4ghz anyways. I actually might be able to do more, but I didn't feel like trying.

Although this dual vs quad vs hexacore etc entirely depends on what kind of software you're running!

Acid 13 years, 2 months ago

Hah! Guys, I have external drives. I just wanted to check the hardware specs. And since most people either said it was good or failed to flag any flaws, I KNOW it's going to fit my needs. :D

Rob 13 years, 2 months ago

What kind of drive was it? WD black? Blue? Hitachi? Seagate? Samsung? 7200rpm, right?

Acid 13 years, 2 months ago

It's a WD black 500 gig. I don't really need more than 1T of space, and if I do, I'll just get another external that's 1T or something. Those are relatively cheap now.