New lap top?

[AnthonyG]

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The cost to upgrade is usually pretty cheap, its buying the initial version that sucks, I got the option to upgrade to 8 on my laptop for 15 dollars I told them to lick my nuts.

[Twitchin Kitten]

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Windows XP was the best OS Microsuck has come out with. All they had to do was take a lesson from Apple and improve on the OS that was working instead of pushing out garbage. Concentrate on plugging security holes and other repetitive failures.

[ralgith]

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Windows XP was the best OS Microsuck has come out with. All they had to do was take a lesson from Apple and improve on the OS that was working instead of pushing out garbage. Concentrate on plugging security holes and other repetitive failures.

To be honest though, Windows 7 is just as good as XP. Its Vista without the fuckups.

[LKTraz]

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Oddly I have no problems with Vista. The other units in the house are XP machines.

[BarEdul]

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Okay I liked windows xp... I still have it on an old computer...

That said you will all be saddened to hear I have directed my funds to a other purchases... seems the bottom fell out of the gemstone industry... NICE... Or at least the semi precious one that I track... it comes in handy when you make baubles for some people who like trinkets. So hold that thought till March as volatile as the computer market is my comp will likely be down 50 bucks or so by march and I will have more than enough to buy it again by then. Meanwhile I have some garnets to snatch up for LK.

[BarEdul]

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Okay LOL Ya KNOW.. I never got back to this LOL.. I never mentioned... hahaha Last year much to my shame I did buy a lap top... TO every bodies horror here.. I bought it at dun dun dun YEP WAL MART.. on a wing a prayer and tax money. We shot over there it was a kind of a spur of a moment thing we were there gonna buy one and ooops there it was all laid out handy and marked down.. Hell it sounded great and I loved music it had a cool little screen of the right size. It had a drive a couple of USB slots I needed a decent comfortable key board slick little touch pad on the lap top not to mention the fact it took memory cards with a multi card reader. It was in my price range... 4 gb of ram and a 2.7 ghz processor with 750 gb hard drive roughly. I haven't scratched the surface of the drive. It has a built in read/rw cd/dvd drive and I am thrilled that the processor clocks at about 3.2 so I can make this little animal sing when I am busy and I can NOT overload the windows while playing games/surfing or surfing and playing music simultaneously. So I love this little monster. Especially with the screen size and closeness I can actually see the screen it is comfortable with a nice little battery fan and 4 hour battery Not huge but enough for me. It has seen very little time out of the house. However LKTRAZ has wifi'd he house.. I am thrilled.. I can tote it everywhere. My jump to it went pretty good. I didn't mind 8.0 like i thought i would.. HOWEVER when i made the shift to 8.1 it did become a smidge finicky. If I delay a progam upgrade to windows it bitches shuts down and it is a bugger to reload. That is my only problem otherwise I am in love and I will never leave oh and MY AMD processors.. yeah still got a hard on for them.

[LKTraz]

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You won't see an inFAIL processor in this house. Had one early on and it was a POS from the word go. Went to AMD and never looked back.

Seen plenty of gamers overclock and subsequently overheat and fry intel crap all too often. I've also seen them heat AMDs to where you'd burn your fingers and they keep on running.

[Vizth Hal]

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Is it odd I'm a gamer and prefer Intel and ATI (fuck you AMD for taking over), to AMD and Nvidia?

Also the AMD E series processors are crap, stick with an A4 at least, or I3 if Intel.
I refuse to sell anything with an E series at my job.

[AnthonyG]

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Intel's are better engineered and have better QC , Some of you might remember when AMD came out with their tri core processors and hex core chipsets a few years ago. That was because their design for quad cores and octa failed and the 4th core on each chipset would always burn up. So to try and save the situation and not take a complete loss on their production they purposely blocked off the troubled cores in the architecture and re branded the lines before launch. My friend in dell told me and some of my other buddies about how they did it and he had images to prove it.AMD's are great go to's when your buying a chipset thats been in production for a bit and you want to save money. For the latest and greatest Intel is the first choice hands down, you get what you pay for.

[ralgith]

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I've been building computers for going on 19 years now, and I used to always prefer AMD. Damn I loved my AMD K6-II @ 500 MHz, totally blew away the Pentium III 550MHz of the same era!

However, as Anthony pointed out, AMD has been having a lot of issues lately. My current gaming desktop has an AMD FX4100 quad core CPU... and quite frankly it's unstable as fuckall even w/out overclocking. It also runs super-hot if you run all 4 cores at 100% for awhile (like when I spend 4-5 hours playing Assassin's Creed IV or Skyrim...), and then it'll crash. That's with a $30 after-market high capacity CPU cooling system (best for that CPU w/out going to liquid cooling). I'm very disappointed in it.

When it comes to the CPUs Anthony references with the troubled cores locked out, I'm very familiar with it. I'm also familiar with people having issues because they get a MOBO with an enhanced BIOS that allows locking/unlocking of the cores by the user and they would unlock trouble cores and fry their CPUs.

This laptop I'm typing from right now is an Intel Core i7, and I'm in love with it. AMD was my go-to for many many years, but not anymore.

I do still enjoy AMD Server CPUs, but again, the more recent ones are running hotter than they should for the performance you get.