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Yes, doesn't make sense to buy a standalone player currently. I'm waiting for an HD format to become standard for TV broadcasts, 24p support without pulldown and full HD to become standard for TVs, and then save quite an amount of money for such a TV and player until BD becomes an option for me... Probably quite some years from now Played half an hour of Psychonauts (this was the first time it got a bit boring, I was in Lungfishopolis) and coded some PHP stuff that I couldn't finish at work.

Definitely not the best, feature-wise. Price/performance is good, because it's also a gaming console. P/p is good for a BD-Player, not a console, of course. Normal university day today, without the first four hours

Ah damn, I couldn't resist and chose the one option that describes the state of the world since the spread of humanity best

Maybe this poll should be open to US citizens only, otherwise people like me will spam it with votes for Obama

Psychonauts

Thanks for the update

sounds sticky New Order - 60 Miles An Hour

Last but not least, the DRM sucks: It's totally demanding for the hardware and requires several encoding/decoding-steps, and depending on your exact hardware/software-combination, what you get in the end isn't HD (i.e. high res picture, uncompressed sound, fluid moving pictures)...

Yay, I miss that. Now I'm totally out of practice Today, I played some Psychonauts. Top game I dislike gametap however, so I'll probably just buy it. Then I watched Forever Remain once again. The last 6 hours or so I spent coding. Python is fun

Oh, a virus... Good luck getting rid of it!

Also devils = fiends and stuff, no? Or was it just Erynnies = Succubi?

Who knows... after alt, oops, "all", he's a bit too new here to miss anyone but still posted in this thread.

Does this solution by Microsoft help?

Fenghuang lately posted some thread. Thepixiesrock is still here. Sand/hades/visceris probably isn't killian kalthorne (or similar ): different political views as far as I'm aware. And isn't DarkRaven == Gabrielle?

rhomal/strauss, the old witch... probably took some things too personally and wasn't heard of since.

Disciples III has got me interested once again. Browse the unit trees, there are some things to like

Linkin Park - Session Instrumental, and good

Licence to kill? Top! I love Timothy Dalton as Bond in both films And the last Bond was very good, was the best action movie in quite a while when I saw it. Forster hasn't disappointed me yet. So, Quantum of Solace is bound to be good Has Watchmen been posted yet?

Farmer Boys - New Breed Of Evil

Faith and the Muse - The Chorus of the Furies

Psst, PCI-Express, not PCI. I know you know, but eircraned probably doesn't The 4670 is about as fast as a 9600GSO and slower than a 9600GT according to tests I read, and priced (around here at least) exactly where it should be with its performance

This quadro is the equivalent to the 8700m gt, but you get better drivers (if you don't have to use the ones that Dell offers you) because it's the "workstation"-variant of this graphics card. Good for you if you're doing CAD "Discrete" is a good thing, as it's the opposite of integrated. It means the graphics card is probably in an MXM slot or similar, and more importantly it uses its own RAM instead of sucking RAM away from Windows and using the comparatively slow FSB. [edit1] Clicked the link and saw that only 256 are onboard, the other 256 are "turbo cache", the nVidia-Marketing word for sucking up the slow and much needed system memory, as in the provided link, it would leave you with only 768MB for Vista, which makes this notebook a bad choice in my opinion. [edit2] I hate it to be un-helpful, sorry :/

A youtube link for the lovers of the darker side of electronic music and bad german accents Wynardtage - Figures in the mirror

Hevein - As far as the eye can see

Here you can only buy Vostros with worse components than said HPs, don't know about the US though. For ok gaming performance there's Alienware and stuff like this MSI, or the Fujitsu Siemens X Series some of which should (in the future?) come with support for external graphics cards, some newer ASUS models, but you pay all of that with limited portability and shorter battery duration, and at least the Alienware models are likely to be out of your price range. Also might want to check out this Anandtech article about gaming laptops posted in some other thread here