Dark Atheist

my legs are big, and it fits on them so.... laptop

Mizzle

It's freaking awesome!!!!

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Sazar

That's what she said

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Mizzle

Just thought I'd do a short write-up of my first day with the Dragon.

It's one hell of a beast!! Everything seems to be running smoothly, and I'm loving the gorgeous display on it. Wow. Just wow.

I haven't really had much time to try out everything, as it took some time removing all the bloatware on it, but I did get a chance to play my favourite game - Oblivion. I put it on max details, 1920 x 1200 resolution and 2x anti-aliasing and it was running much better than my old laptop did at lowest graphics settings in VGA! Pretty impressive.

The speakers are LOUUUUD!!!!

I'll fill you in later on

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Aprox

Awesome Mizzle! Get some pictures up!!

gonaads

Get a laptop cooler to go under it if you're gonna use it for any serious gaming. Don't wanna overheat it. I wonder if they make one big enough?

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madmatt

This thread is worthless without photos.

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Mizzle

Pictures coming tomorrow

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Henyman

we want them now, its part of the contact

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madmatt

This thread is still worthless.

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Dark Atheist

if he was handing out cookies with the pics you would wait and not find it worthless

kcnychief

That's crazy to have a screen that big, can't wait to see teh pics

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gonaads

Well? PICTURES!

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Mizzle

I'm setting up my cam just now

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Mizzle

Here are some A few more will come in a sec. sorry about the use of flash, it's rather dark here.

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Mizzle

and the last three. will upload many more tomorrow when the light is better.

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gonaads

Not bad


Mizzle, you got 4 phones? Ya damn toy junkie.

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Mizzle

nah, just a few laying around. got way more

Couldn't be bothered removing them am busy reviewing a few of them at the moment

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Mizzle

Thought I'd start on a bit of a review here. Software and performance first.

Below is the Windows Experience Index rating. Everything is at 5.0 or more, meaning this machine will be among the best in every single category, especially on the graphics point of view with its Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTS (512 MB) graphics card.

The machine is running stock drivers, so it might get even better with driver updates.

After removing all the HP and alike bloatware on it, I managed to get the amount of used RAM memory down to about 1.20 GB at boot. I find this extremely high, and can't quite figure out why it's that high. Anyway, the Dragon still runs smoothly, and being it's running Vista 64-bit, it's capable of putting all 4 gigs of RAM memory to use. That's rather nice, especially as I believe some of it is shared with the video card.

As said, lots of - in my opinion - bloatware on it. Some of it was useful though, and it even came with Sims 2 Life Stories or something like that. I set it to max graphics and put it at the highest resolution, and everything was running smoothly. Not a game for me though. I also reported about its performance in Oblivion just earlier on - quite impressed by that.

I really like the Media center software. it's easy to use and it's rather good for what it does. I did experience a few bugs, though, and it also froze on me once, so I had to shut the whole thing down. Same did the QuickPlay software by HP, though. Not really impressed with QuickPlay to be honest. It's a bit slow, and it makes the computer freeze for quite a bit when loading stuff. It's good for Bluray movies, though, and only ate up 30-40% of the CPU in power saving mode.

Hmm, don't know what else to write at the moment, actually. Feel free to ask I'm sure I'll have more to add tomorrow, with lots of photos.

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falconguard

Very nice, very, very nice. I hate you.

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