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Osiris
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 08:32
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So my school is ordering me a Dell Latitude D820 for my schooling in game design and development I was wondering how good of a laptop it is, because ive never owned one before. It has:

-Intel Core Duo T2500
-2MB L2 Cache
-15.4 inch WXGA Display
-Nvidia Quatro NVS 120 TurboCacheTM with 512 MB Video Memory
-1024 MB DDR SDRAM, 1 Dimm
-80 GB Hard Drive
-Microsoft windows XP Professional
-Internal Dell TrueMobile 1390 WLAN miniPCI Card
-8XDVD+RW Drive
-9-cell 85 Watt Hour "Smart" Li-Polymer battery
-Integrated Smart Card Reader

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Virtual X
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 13:29 Edited at: 24th Jul 2007 13:31
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YOUR SCHOOL is ordering YOU a LAPTOP!!!

umm.... what school do you go to? LOL I think I will go to school all over again haha,

damn, I never had that LOL, I was lucky if I gota solar powered calculator to do Trig

anyway, that laptop is fine for your needs, you wont utilise all the power anyway, so be thank you your getting one!
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 13:37
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Some schools can do that, generally it is done for Dyslexics. As for the specs, it's better than my PC and Laptop put together...but that's not really saying much.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 14:53 Edited at: 24th Jul 2007 15:05
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That's a pretty good laptop although I'm pretty sure Turbocache just means it steals memory from the main RAM pool (trade descriptions act!)

If money is no object I'd rather have an Alienware latop with Dual 7950GTX in it (until the 8800 version comes out of course)

http://www.alienware.co.uk/product_pages/notebook_all_default.aspx

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Osiris
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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 19:40
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Well my school is doing it for every one so when we make games and such there wont be any weird hardware conflicts.

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Posted: 24th Jul 2007 19:45 Edited at: 24th Jul 2007 19:46
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If it gets 'stolen' do you get another one for free.

By 'stolen' I mean given to me and said it was stolen...

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Osiris
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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 01:29
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Lol yes, also if its broken IE I run it over with my car somehow or drop it, or get really mad at it and punch it, that sort of stuff too.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 02:53 Edited at: 25th Jul 2007 02:53
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I've seen schools toute this thing before. IT equipment has a 3 year replace cycle and it costs money to have it insured for staying in school premises. So it's cheaper just to give it to the kids to look after. I know my local school gives laptops to it's 6th formers as a way to attract students too.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 05:23
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wtf does being dyslexic have to do with getting a free laptop? you'll just type everything wrong instead of writing it wrong.


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Osiris
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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 05:29
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Spell check?

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Jess T
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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 06:30
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I'm jealous

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Osiris
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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 08:11
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Why I mean the school kind of needs to, or else people will all be on different pages, some games will work with some people and some not.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 14:42
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Well, I am doing a 100% games Bachelor at my Uni, and we don't get anything.
We have to fork out $100's for text books each semester (about $80 per subject with 4 subjects each semester), and the PCs we have are decent, but they're in the lab, and they're not laptops.

I had to save up whilst working before going to Uni so I could buy my PC (and build it from scratch so I could do it cheaper).

Hence the jealousy.

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Osiris
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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 18:40
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Ah yeah, they just threw all of that stuff straight into our tuition so it was easier for us.

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Dared1111
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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 18:51
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Well, I'm getting diagnosed for asbergers and if I have it I get a laptop for Uni and no i am not exploiting...

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