Its here its here, laptop edition

Nice score congrats !!!

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I got me a similar setup recently. P41.8, 512DDR, Radeon 7500 Mobility 64mb video, 15" LCD, 40gb HD, DVD/CD-RW combo drive, etc etc. Battery life does indeed suck royally, but it's faster than nearly every desktop I encounter!

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A new PS some months ago, and now a new laptop... where do you get all that money from?

<b>P75 @ 90 Mhz</b>... because I need the speed.

I sell crack to school kids :-) JK.

U R very observant. On the income side, I've been a tech for the USPS for 14 years so I pull in around $45k from my primary job. I also work part time as a tech for a small computer company so I get a little extra from that. I also manage real estate.

On the savings side, I have never confessed where I live but it is a low cost area (on purpose). I'm single so I can spend as I choose. I have no long distance service so my phone bill is under $30.00/mo. I use Sam's club calling cards at 3.5 cents a minute. I have no pay TV service of any kind, no cable, no sat, no broadband (sniff sniff). I live on a lake and have no debt other then for the house ($950.00/mo ouch). I have outdoor plastic chairs around a garage sale kitchen table that get dragged outside to the deck for cookouts. There is nothing is my house that is fluffy or cute. I don't collect anything and I never buy anything I can't afford and haven't since I was a teenager. I have a Discover card that pays me to use it(cashback with no interest if you pay it off every month). I don't drink (anymore), don't smoke and don't chase women (anymore).

Computers are by far my cheepest hobby, costing only a couple thousand per year. The worst money hog is my boat. I have a 2001 Mastercraft X-9 that I bought new last year to replace a 1995 Malibu Response. A boat is a hole in the water to dump your money into, but they are fun esp when filled half full of half naked underage girls. Second worst is the racing. I've got a 2000 Vette hardtop that I race once a month. Vettes ain't cheep and racing em is worse.

I currently have 5 computers but one is sold (old laptop) and I'm giving away the oldest home system (600 cel w all SCSI) as soon as the 1700+xp based system is stable.

O yeah, and I lived in a paid for trailer for 8 years.

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by lakedude on 06/08/02 07:23 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

From my post right above yours:

"I live on a lake and have no debt other then for the house ($950.00/mo ouch). "

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire.

excellent

though whats the battery life expectancy with that beasty running full poweR?


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Sounds like you got a desktop processor like I did. The mobile processor increases battery life tremendously by utilizing lower power consumption and speed-step technology. The advantages of the desktop processor is higher speed and lower price. I get about an hour per 3000mah battery.

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I do a lot of travelling and the battery life kills me on long flights. I'm thinking of trying to get a mobile cpu if it will install on this mobo.

-- Ah sh*t! sys64738 --

woah....dude...

My frog asked me for a straw...dunno what happened he's all over the place