Long story short, the motherboard has had loose components inside of it for about a month now. It stopped working today completely. After some hardware troubleshooting my office now smells like burnt hair. I need another laptop now. I'm thinking about just ordering a Latitude D830 and calling it a day.

Didn't you see the "DO NOT PLACE PHALLUS IN TRAY" sticker on the cd-drive?

jealous. I have a D620. I want a D830 for work so bad. just make sure you get the model with a 1920X1200 screen (it's an option) and more then 2gb ram possible.

Composted Computer Repair Technicians to the rescue! We need a loft to throw it off of.

This was a D600 actually, Aaron. I've always liked Latitudes. They're simple, whatever. And yeah I was looking at the options, I'd definitely go for the 1920x1200 res. I was thinking 2GB. Why would you suggest more than that? I won't be running Vista. I have 2GB on my new home machine and even with photoshop, torrents, all sorts of other apps & web shit running I never ever use all that memory.

Linux is for fagz.

I can't use linux for desktop use. Servers only.

Macz are also for fagz. That's why I use a Mac. I don't know any other OS's besides the billion other Linux shits.

get 2GBs, but make sure that the motherboard supports up to 4 so you can upgrade in the future. make this laptop last you 3-4 years instead of 2.

I just configured a 1530 with the best things I could:
XPS M1530
Starting Price $3,097
Instant Savings $598
Subtotal $2,499

OK. It has 2 slots for memory, I was originally going to say fuck it and just get 2 1GB sticks in it, but maybe i'll just eat it and pay a little extra to get a 2 gigger in 1 slot, leaving the other open.

either do that or get 512mb and buy your own 2gb.

the lappy that I want now is the w700:
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/control...ogleBaseW700_AMD&CAWELAID=219918346

ThinkPad W700 - 1 Yr Depot Warranty
Edit 2757CTO $6,183.00 1 $6,183.00
Processor: Intel Core 2 Extreme processor QX9300 (2.53GHz 1066MHz 12MBL2) 1
Operating system: Genuine Windows Vista Business 1
Operating system language: Genuine Windows Vista Business US English 1
Display type: 17" WUXGA 400NIT TFT 1
System Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX-2700M (DVI-DL+DisplayPort+ST) 512MB 1
Base: W700 Base 1
Total memory: 4 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM) 1
Keyboard: Keyboard US English� 1
Pointing Device: Ultranav + Fingerprint Reader + Pantone Color Sensor + WACOM Digitizer 1
Storage subsystem: Internal RAID - Not Enabled 1
Primary Hard Drive: 64 GB Solid State Drive, Serial ATA 1
Optical device: ThinkPad Blu-ray Recordable Ultrabay Enhanced (Serial ATA) 1
System expansion slots : Express Card(54mm) + Express Card(34mm) 1
Integrated WiFi wireless LAN adapters : Intel WiFi Link 5300 (AGN) 1
Battery: 9 cell Li-Ion Battery 1
Power cord: Country Pack North America 1
Language pack: Language Pack US English 1

bottom line
$6,183.00

I'd love a bluray player in a laptop. But that's big money I'm guessing.

BDR ftw! if they had 100GB BDr's and they were under $30/ea. and the recorder was under $600, I would have all my photos backed up on something non-magnetic.

Rev is worried about emp bombs

YES... With the endeavor that I've started, this will be come more obvious. I was thinking more the emp from a nuke or alien invaders though.

8gb flash drives for sale over here!
for you my friend, 20 bucks

hmmm. I may have to take you up on that.

i have (2) 8gbs
(1) 4gb
(1) 1gb
you know where i live, stop by dude.