In my last laptop upgraded I decided to go with a Dell XPS because the ThinkPad T was overpriced here.
That's because the Dell XPS line is for consumers and isn't built to the same quality (nor do you get on-site warranty coverage).
How did the price compare to Dell Latitudes? Then you'd be comparing apples to apples.
Trash collection may be mundane, but if it's not paid through taxation, you'll get all kinds of negative consequences of schemes to dispose of trash without paying the user fees.
The deal would have never gone through.
Completing a business deal of that magnitude requires going over the books with a fine-toothed comb on the part of the company doing the buying. Groupon's books would not have passed the litmus test, as you're seeing now that they've managed to go public.
Why the hell haven't you moved closer if the job is so stable?
How about the screen and keyboard? Does your Toshiba have an unibody aluminum design?
I always thought Apple stuff was overpriced too, but there's a lot more to it than the CPU speed and how much memory is in a laptop. This coming from a guy who has never owned an Apple product.
Did everything work as expected once you set it back to stock speeds in the BIOS?
This has turned out to be rarely true in practice. Only about 3 models each of MSI and Asus 800-series motherboards can run a Bulldozer CPU with a BIOS update and NO Gigabyte 800-series boards will except for the very last hardware revisions of about 8 of their models.
The motherboard OEMs did a much better job of supporting new CPUs on their existing boards for the previous AM2 - AM2+ - AM3 transitions.
I find Steve to be a much more common alleged name.
The outstanding "integrated" graphics performance of the laptop and desktop Llano APUs (ugh, marketing) greatly expands the number of niches where AMD is the better choice. That now includes nearly home user on the planet.
I wouldn't worry much about AMD even if this Bulldozer launch is underwhelming.
In other words, it's probably not the BIOS that will ship with the final product, and they can remove the ability to toggle that setting at any time in the future.
Ask and ye shall receive! Diablo 3 doesn't require Steam!
Every problem you name has a technical workaround that your average Slashdotter could name off the top of their head.
Don't buy what Google is selling if you don't want it.
We want to create puppets that pull their own strings. - Ann Marion
