NEW COMPUTER!

Posted by Misconstruct on Oct. 13, 2010, 2:26 a.m.

So I didn't go with the HP I blogged about earlier.

Instead, I went with this:

Tundra F1-560 Gaming Laptop

15.6" Full HD 1920X1080 Widescreen

Intel® Core™ i7-740QM Mobile Processor (4x 1.73GHz/6MB L3 Cache)

4GB [2GB x 2] 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM

Mobility DDR5 1.5GB NVIDIA GTX 460M

500 GB 7200rpm HDD

4X Blu-Ray-R/8x Dual Format DVD±R/±RW + 16x CD-R/RW Combo Drive

Built-in 7-in-1 Media Card Reader/Writer

Standard 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional

Civilization V

Civilization V might just be the best feature.

And I plan on replacing the hard drive with a 100 GB SSD.

It's ordered, so there's little changing my mind now.

Comments

flashback 14 years, 1 month ago

Your battery life will be amusing.

Castypher 14 years, 1 month ago

Because really, Flashback, who plays high-end games on battery?

Misconstruct 14 years, 1 month ago

I'm buying a laptop for the portability, not the ability to run on battery.

The only time the battery comes in handy is when the power goes out right when I'm in the middle of something. But that's happened to me a total of zero times the last year.

I could buy a desktop and get the same performance for cheaper, or more performance for the same price. But I don't feel like lugging a desktop with me aboard a ship. And selling or storing it aren't appealing options to me, either.

KaBob799 14 years, 1 month ago

I like having my primary computer as a laptop, I don't think I'm ever going to switch back to desktops =p

Moikle 14 years, 1 month ago

i need a job so i can afford a nice laptop

Mush 14 years, 1 month ago

Just bought myself a new laptop today.

SteveKB 14 years, 1 month ago

Just Laptop.

Ferret 14 years, 1 month ago

Laptop.

no0b 14 years, 1 month ago

Netbook :P

Rob 14 years, 1 month ago

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15.6" Full HD 1920X1080 Widescreen

15" 1920x1080? lol

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And I may throw 8 GB of RAM in it too

Why the hell would you do that? Just use it for a while - 4gb is PLENTY.