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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I just got a message from my friend... and told me that Santa is coming early! I have the following on the way!
Gateway Black 15.6" NE56R12u Laptop PCKey Features and Benefits:Intel Pentium B950 processor 2.10GHz, 2MB L3 Cache 4GB DDR3 SDRAM system memory (expandable to 8GB) Gives you the power to handle most power hungry applications and tons of multimedia work 500GB hard drive Store 333,000 photos, 142,000 songs or 263 hours of HD video and more 8x DVD-Super Multi Double-Layer Drive Watch movies, and read and write CDs and DVDs in multiple formats 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Connect to a broadband modem with wired Ethernet or wirelessly connect to a Wi-Fi signal or hotspot with the 802.11b/g/n connection built into your PC 15.6" HD Ultrabright LED-backlit display Intel HD Graphics with 128MB of dedicated system memory and support for Microsoft DirectX 10.1 Additional Features:1.3MP HD webcam with built-in microphone 5-in-1 memory card reader 3 x USB 2.0 ports, 1 x headphone jack, 1 x microphone jack, 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet port, 1 x VGA port, 1 x HDMI port with HDCP support 6-cell lithium-ion battery, up to 4 h 30 min battery life Software:Genuine Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Edition (To learn more about the features of Windows 7, click here) Microsoft Office Starter 2010: Includes reduced functionality versions of Microsoft Word and Excel, with advertising. PowerPoint and Outlook are NOT included. Purchase Office 2010 today and get the most out of your new PC. (To learn more about the features of Office 2010, click here) Norton Internet Security 2012 trial Gateway Recovery Management And if that isn't enough... she also got me a 2-year extended warranty.OMG! I so can't believe it! The order email she sent me said... Will arrive between Thursday, 10/18/12, and Tuesday, 10/23/12. I so can't wait to get my new toy and start playing!  | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Cool | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 |  Posts: 410 |
| | Posted: | | | | What the price? under 300$ this could be great  So far I dont see anything that will give it a Wow factor.... Very old CPU, no SDD drive, no blu-ray drive, only $gb of old ram, very sub standrad graphic card... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | No idea for sure what she paid... it is a gift. And I don't look a gift horse in the mouth. But also understand... that I have no computer at all right now. And what is there... is better then what I have had in the past. But I don't imagine it was much more then $300 if it was more. She tends to find good deals. I'm more then thrilled with it.  | | | | Pete |
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 | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | Cool news, Pete. Now you can stop biting your nails from withdraw and start biting them in anticipation!  | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I already am! I hope it comes fairly quick... my daughter is going away from Thursday till Monday. And she is taking her computer with her! It says it could be here as early as Thursday... that would be nice! | | | | Pete |
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| Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | Talk about a time crunch. "Pleeeease Brittany... just stay for a few more minutes! I know it'll be here soon!" | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,879 |
| | Posted: | | | | That is great news Pete! | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- Thorin Oakenshield |
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| Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Posts: 410 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote:
No idea for sure what she paid... it is a gift. And I don't look a gift horse in the mouth. But also understand... that I have no computer at all right now. And what is there... is better then what I have had in the past. But I don't imagine it was much more then $300 if it was more. She tends to find good deals.
I'm more then thrilled with it. Oh, from no computer to this little laptop this is great and this is a nice gift |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Awesome Pete! We need to know more about this friend of yours!  | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah... looking forward to it. I am so hoping it will get here in time so I don't have to go without a computer too long. Since I won't even be able to borrow my daughter's from Thursday evening to Tuesday morning. And Corey... Sorry... this friend of mine will remain anonymous. Unless she, herself wants to come here and out herself.  | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Congratulations! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | start brushing up on windows 7 ...... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | The computer that just went up on me was windows 7 (as is my daughter's) so I am fairly familiar with it. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | that's good .. I've been an XP man for close to ten years now and when I got my second PC laptop it came equipped with windows 7 which was ..' fairly..' easy to navigate . there are a lot of things about windows 7 that don't work compared to my XP pro ..
and DVD Profiler is Not one of them ,, but just little things
I know the day has already come that XP is not being supported anymore , but I will milk it as long as I can ... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry | | | | Last edited: by widescreenforever |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
there are a lot of things about windows 7 that don't work compared to my XP pro ... Can you name few? |
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