New laptop time

Mr. Analog · January 24, 2013, 09:34:49 AM

That looks like it kicks ass! Great find, also 10% is a bonus.

Too bad you have to pay the Windows Tax though

Tom · January 24, 2013, 09:42:29 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on January 24, 2013, 09:34:49 AM
That looks like it kicks ass! Great find, also 10% is a bonus.

Too bad you have to pay the Windows Tax though

Yeah. I think I can get them to give me a refund for that, but it may require either proving I didn't accept the EULA, or sending it back for them to wipe it. So I won't bother.

append: ooh, its actually 12%. but yeah. awesome.

Melbosa · January 24, 2013, 10:20:14 AM

Good find. Beats the Asus on the battery life, but does cost more. The Quadro is more Linux friendly for sure than the GeForce products.

Thorin · January 24, 2013, 11:36:13 AM

How much would you get back if you didn't accept Windows? I know back in the day OEMs only paid, like, twenty bucks to include an OEM copy of Windows on a computer...

Mr. Analog · January 24, 2013, 11:41:24 AM

It depends if it comes pre-installed, wiping it takes time and time is money.

Why not save $20 anyway, buy a giant steak instead of Windows 8?

Tom · January 24, 2013, 12:08:20 PM

The HP laptops Melbosa pointed to had an option to take Suse or FreeDOS, and at least with FreeDOS, you saved $100. Maybe that discount gets smaller if you also buy office and stuff, but since its more of a business laptop, probably not?

Tom · February 01, 2013, 10:22:52 AM

Just got a shipment notification for my new laptop \o/ Hopefully get it by early next week.

Tom · February 08, 2013, 03:54:04 PM

Aww yeah. Got my laptop today \o/ a day late, but meh.

It's pretty slick, especially after the upgrade to 24GB ram, and a blazing fast SSD (500MBps reads and writes).

Transferred all the important stuff off my old laptop, and have the new one all set up. I'ma happy.

Melbosa · February 08, 2013, 03:57:28 PM

Gratz....

Mr. Analog · February 08, 2013, 04:04:49 PM

Woo! Get Steam & Minecraft on that sucker!

Tom · February 08, 2013, 04:25:41 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 08, 2013, 04:04:49 PM
Woo! Get Steam & Minecraft on that sucker!

Minecraft is already on this sucker (just working on getting oracle-java installed, they changed the license, which no longer allowed distros to ship it). No steam though, last I tried the steam client didn't like debian very much.

Mr. Analog · February 08, 2013, 04:36:47 PM

Bwah bwuh!

Hopefully they can get it running on that distro so we can play games!

Gotta do co-op Portal 2!!

Thorin · February 08, 2013, 04:54:58 PM

Quote from: Tom on February 08, 2013, 03:54:04 PM
Aww yeah. Got my laptop today \o/ a day late, but meh.

It's pretty slick, especially after the upgrade to 24GB ram, and a blazing fast SSD (500MBps reads and writes).

Transferred all the important stuff off my old laptop, and have the new one all set up. I'ma happy.

I think that's more RAM than in my entire house. Well, if w don't count stuff built into phones, I guess.

Tom · February 08, 2013, 04:58:18 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on February 08, 2013, 04:36:47 PM
Bwah bwuh!

Hopefully they can get it running on that distro so we can play games!

Gotta do co-op Portal 2!!

Aww yeah. That'd be cool.

Quote from: Thorin on February 08, 2013, 04:54:58 PM
Quote from: Tom on February 08, 2013, 03:54:04 PM
Aww yeah. Got my laptop today \o/ a day late, but meh.

It's pretty slick, especially after the upgrade to 24GB ram, and a blazing fast SSD (500MBps reads and writes).

Transferred all the important stuff off my old laptop, and have the new one all set up. I'ma happy.

I think that's more RAM than in my entire house. Well, if w don't count stuff built into phones, I guess.

Yeah, it came with 8GB, and I bought a pair of 8GB sticks to put in the empty slots. I could have gone to 32GB, but meh. If I find I need more than 24GB ram, I'll do it then. Or if the ram is on sale stupid cheap

Lazybones · February 08, 2013, 08:18:11 PM

I am surprised you didn't go Ubuntu on the laptop. They have decent decent WiFi tools and I have found its repo to be WAY more current than Debian even when using older LTS releases.