New Toy

Haly · 14-12-2009, 18:18

Bit of a 'Look at me with my shiny new laptop' post but meh I don't get many shiny new toys so it's nice to do

My new laptop arrived today and although I haven't had a huge amount of time to mess around with it yet, I'm rather happy

Had my Dell Vostro 1500 for just under 2 years now and with an increasing number of PC review games coming my way, it was starting to really show its age. Especially as it had a rather meagre Geforce 8400m, and my HD regularly kept hitting less than 5gb spare

Saved up and purchased a Dell Studio 1555. Core2Duo T6600 2.2ghz, 4gb RAM, 500gb HD and Ati 4570HD. Windows Experience Index is now a much healthier 5.0 compared to 3.x something or other with the old one.
Laptop's about 2kg lighter and much thinner, and it should hopefully last me a fair old while.

Just about to give DiRT2 a whirl as that was incredibly slow to load with the old laptop. Also got Football Manager 2010 which will be good fun

Also quite glad to see an HDMI port which could come in handy!

I do have one brief question. Any noticeable-to-an-average person difference with having Windows 7 64bit rather than 32bit? I assume it's just down to architecture and optimisation more than anything, but figured I might as well ask while I'm behind on technology.

14-12-2009, 18:18	#1
Haly Do you want to hide in my box? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 14,941	New Toy Bit of a 'Look at me with my shiny new laptop' post but meh I don't get many shiny new toys so it's nice to do My new laptop arrived today and although I haven't had a huge amount of time to mess around with it yet, I'm rather happy Had my Dell Vostro 1500 for just under 2 years now and with an increasing number of PC review games coming my way, it was starting to really show its age. Especially as it had a rather meagre Geforce 8400m, and my HD regularly kept hitting less than 5gb spare Saved up and purchased a Dell Studio 1555. Core2Duo T6600 2.2ghz, 4gb RAM, 500gb HD and Ati 4570HD. Windows Experience Index is now a much healthier 5.0 compared to 3.x something or other with the old one. Laptop's about 2kg lighter and much thinner, and it should hopefully last me a fair old while. Just about to give DiRT2 a whirl as that was incredibly slow to load with the old laptop. Also got Football Manager 2010 which will be good fun Also quite glad to see an HDMI port which could come in handy! I do have one brief question. Any noticeable-to-an-average person difference with having Windows 7 64bit rather than 32bit? I assume it's just down to architecture and optimisation more than anything, but figured I might as well ask while I'm behind on technology. __________________ Halycopter