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I purchased a real nice laptop bag on Saturday, I tested it on Sunday night and my laptop is to big to fit into it (15″ bag where my laptop must be a 15.4″)

Now I got my partner Kerryn to mod my new laptop bag.

Now it fits perfectly.

Now all is good, A piece was cut out and some elastic was sown in place.

Thanks to my partner Kerryn.

I have tweak the living crap out of the Vista install on my laptop (vista home premium) and it now runs amazing.
Boots up in a matter of seconds, I have disabled what I thought was slowing it down, even though it is a dual core with plenty of system ram.
Indexing, super fetch, system restore has been tweaked and then disabled, items in task scheduler have been tweaked.
I have written most of these tweaks down and I will put them in a latter post.
Page file has been tweaked, a lot of the services have been set to manual with only a few been actually set to disabled (like remote registry)

The main problem with Vista is that you can’t actually un-install most of the extras that get installed, under windows 7 you can actually remove all of them, including internet explorer (well remove access to the anyway)

Good morning to all.

Been busy lately, I have a new digital camera, the cannon power shot A480 10mp unit, I haven’t used it much yet but so far it is a very nice camera.

I also have my new Acer aspire 5536 laptop which has the following hardware.

• AMD athlon 64 x2 dual core processor
• 15.6″ HD cine crystal LED LCD (1366×168 720P res)
• 4gb of system memory (can be upgraded to 8gb)
• 320gb sata hard disk drive
• DVD super multi DL drive (sounds fancy) says that it reads blue-ray disks which would be real cool
• Dedicated ATI HD3200 video with its own memory.
• 56k modem, 10/100/1000 LAN, wireless LAN etc
• Windows vista home premium 32bit with SP1 (need to install SP2, surprised windows update hasn’t already)
• The install was quiet clean, I removed the McAffee and office 60day trial version but that is about it.

I am totally amazed at the performance of the laptop, I tested out the graphics by installing steam and half life 2, I run it at 16×9 at its native resolution of 1366×768 and I have left the graphics options at default (most of the options are set to high I have noticed) and the game runs amazing at around 50fps 90% of the time, drops about 20fps when there is a lot of particles on screen like dust etc from explosions but apart from that it is amazing.

I have gotten new clear LED based bulbs for my new light box so I will be testing that out at some stage.

I have my first class at CIT tomorrow (a 3 hour lecture which is just an introduction to CIT) then my regular classes start next Monday.

I have my new GTS-250 video card on my gaming system and it is atleast 50% better then my ATI 4670 card, I also purchased the Badaboom video conversion software that takes advantage of the nvidia cuda technology on the GTS-250 video card.

I have installed the enhanced physx level pack for UT3 which is quiet amazing (would be better if it run at more than 10fps)

I have finally found UV green 80mm fans and UV green SATA cables at the local computer market (couldn’t find then online – well not in Australia anyway)

Okay that is enough typing for now.

I just updated word press to version 2.8.2 and all seems good, if you have any problems with the site just let me know (actually this is the second time I have upgraded the wordpress software this month – thanks to the automatic upgrade that I use it only takes like 30 seconds)

An interesting read from Network ASIA states that desktop system’s are becoming a less viable business, and that as laptops get cheaper more people prefer them over larger desktop system’s.

“Desktops are highly configurable compared to laptops — which are highly integrated — so gaming-system builders and niche white-box vendors may flourish on building desktops, Kay said. Theoretically, everything else in desktops could go mobile.”

Laptop hardware can be upgraded, I just opened the bottom of mine acer aspire 5315 and removed the old 512mb of ddr ram and inserted 2 x new 1.0GB sticks in a matter of minutes, HDD can also be removed by only removing 1 screw and cover plate and sliding the old one out (as long as the BIOS supports a larger HDD there shouldn’t be any problem there)
CPU wise should also be the same, easry enought to remove and replace with a more powerfull unit (again if the BIOS/chipset etc support’s that)

Onboard video (IGP) is something that you can’t replac, and that is probally area that a desktop system wins over a laptop.

“If the price is the same between notebook and desktops, [users] will go mobile,”

I agree with that.
I know a few people that now have laptops that play most of todays games and cost between $1000.00AU and $2500.00AU which is a little more than a similar speced desktop system but it is smaller, quiter, portable etc.

I know my gaming system at home takes up quiet a large portion of the lounge room (I cant stand having multilpe systems and would love a gaming laptop to replace my current laptop and gaming desktop)

Well until next time, HUG your laptop.

EDIT: Now this is a nice laptop, I would gladly sell my server, gaming system and current laptop just to buy one of these.