Quote Originally Posted by xoqolatl View Post
No, it's one of the signs that the world is coming to an end.
It was a $680 Gateway with 4GB DDR2, a C2D T5800, GM45 chipset, and 250GB SATA drive. 15.4" LCD, 6.5lb, and garnet red. It's a nice system, and so far he actually likes it. I was never able to get him to move away from using XP with his older Celeron M or Pentium II/III's. Anyways, he says he'll at least try Vista64 for a good while. He couldn't find UAC so I turned it off and showed him a couple tricks. He actually likes Aero--which is a surprise. And he complimented how well Media Center worked. He's pretty happy with it and bought it on 30 seconds thought.

Quote Originally Posted by karl_eller View Post
On the Desktop: Firefox, TF2/Steam, Google Chrome.

On the Laptop: Firefox, Thunderbird, MSN.

To water-cool the X58 NB, or to leave it under stock cooling, that is the question.

Eller
Whats the temperature? Heck--if you have the money, go watercool it. If it's nice and cold, stock will be fine.

How much do I want a Core i7, Biostar TPower X58, and 4GB DDR3 1333?