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Old 30-08-11, 07:43 PM   #1
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Default Today was a good day in work...

Apologies in advance but I had a good day and know some of the geeks of the org will appreciate this.

I managed to wangle a laptop just over 4 years ago along with our server order. They discounted it to £4.94 (yes OK instead of discounted perhaps read offset) so I ended up with a Dell XPS M1710, a pretty impressive gaming laptop, knowing there was no way I'd justify another I kept it going and upgraded the RAM and stuck an SSD in there and was quite happy as by now I'd arranged an i7 desktop machine for myself with 3 screens running on an eyefinity card (handy for lunchtime portal fun on surround gaming)

Then the accounts manager tempted me, saying surely I was due to sort myself a new laptop out by now, I explained it would be £1300+ and said I was OK, he didn't balk at the figure and mentioned it again a few days later, I decided to spec one up on Friday and see what he thought, I put together a kickass machine (taking the proverbial really but if you don't ask you don't get) and he thought I'd manage to get one of them.... My bank holiday weekend was very distracted looking up specs and ogling, waiting for Tuesday to come so I could put it forward and either get Christmas come early or laughed out of the FD/MDs office....
As you can probably tell from the title, it got signed off!

I have on order an alienware M17x! Stock core i7 CPU but beefed up with 16gb ram, geforce GTX580m GPU, bluray drive, some upgraded wireless card and my personal favourite, a 120hz screen for built in nvidia 3d vision. Gaming I've got a few 3d movies ready to try and my usual games. I can't wait the next 10-12 working days are going to DRAG!

Sorry for the braggart post but I'm bouncing off the walls and I can't really tell anyone at work without getting the living poop kicked out of me (rightly so I guess)
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Old 30-08-11, 07:47 PM   #2
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Top work Brett, most of that spec means nothing to me but sounds powerful lol
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Old 30-08-11, 07:48 PM   #3
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lucky get
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Old 30-08-11, 07:48 PM   #4
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Nice indeed but i cant game on a laptop. Let me know when you upgrade the ipad
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Old 30-08-11, 08:05 PM   #5
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Wow well done
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Old 30-08-11, 09:05 PM   #6
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Blagging sod!

It easier to escape a prison than get anything out of my company. Trying for a work mobile tomorrow lets see how far that gets.
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Old 30-08-11, 10:20 PM   #7
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yeah but does it play cd's lol
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Old 31-08-11, 01:24 AM   #8
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yeah but does it play cd's lol
and does it have bluetooth and wireless?

i have no idea what you are going on about with your new puter but i can tell just by reading your OP that you are excited so it must be good!!
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Old 31-08-11, 02:26 AM   #9
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You'll still look at porn though.

3D porn?

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Old 31-08-11, 05:57 AM   #10
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LOL thanks for all the replies, and yep, bit of a techie data blast with all the specs but I'm like a kid on December 1st now, the first day of the advent calendar has been opened and I know what I'm getting! The 3d screen is the thing that intrigues me the most, wanted a 3dtv last month as I'd stashed away some savings but we ended up with an American style fridge freezer (not quite sure how that happened but nevermind) so my 3d hopes were dashed, had order confirmation and projected ETA of 14th September, hoping it's sooner but least I've got an end date to my advent calendar! Right, must get sorted for work, Back later.
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