HI...........I am a new laptop

Wow!!

You mean UPS just brings you a new laptop and drops it off on your doorstep??


Just like that??


How nice of them


I'll bet you were surprised, eh?


Who did you buy your new toy from? I'll bet it's an Apple

Well I do have a apple tree out by the pond

I got this where I always buy my gear...TigerDirect.com

It's a Intel i7 quad-core with Turbo Boost and 8GB of RAM with an nVidia Geforce video card to add processor power.

Run by Windows 7 which I can upgrade to Windows 8 for only $14.95

Total cost was $771.00 with free shipping.......brand name is ASUS

this is the best laptop for the $ and I spent plenty of time looking and checking.

But as usual the main reason is adding it to my 5 quad-core desktop pc's doing data processing for the Einstein Project looking at Pulsars (rotating neutron stars).....and the CERN LHC doing theoretical physics computation.

In this laptops first 24 hours things have been running perfect after setting it all up and it actually runs 8 processors at once (all of mine run 24/7)

I am one of the original mad scientists there,

Here is a link with the main explaination......since it is after 4am and I better fake sleep

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/radiopulsar/html/index.php

oh and mac sucks

WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!


"The Arecibo telescope located on the island of Puerto Rico"


Dude!! I can see Miguel's house in that photo!!


Now I know where he lives



I always wondered where he drank his Rum while in his homeland

Yeah Migs could put his entire family and all the rum in PR in the A.R.T

The Arecibo has been used for a long time for the SETI project which I doubt will ever do anything.

It is better for the Einstein project since we have found lots of pulsars and black holes but not one single UFO


Well except the ones in AZ and up here in the 1960's

Today my new machine even got some work from the other Large Hadron Collider project so it is running those right now and I paused the Einstein WU's until the LHC's are finished.

Man the main thing I had to add to the laptop was a real mouse.......I hate that damn pad and all the clicking you have to do

YOW the LHC just sent me 14 more tasks which takes close to 7 hours and I already had 9 on this pc.

Better check how many my quad-core desktop got upstairs so it doesn't accidently stop running the Test4Theory unit since those take 24 hours each and it does 2 at the same time along with the Oracle VirtualBox

The other 4 desktops are set so they only do the T4T's and Einsteins

Did you get an SSD?

dblshockpwr wrote:Did you get an SSD?

No SSD ....maybe some day.

I got the best for the best price for what I have it running though.

(glad I have that annoying touchpad turned off)

Not the greatest HD out there but the rest was worth the $771 total that I payed.

ASUS A53SD-TS71 Laptop Computer - 2nd Gen Intel Core i7-2670QM 2.20GHz, 8GB DDR3, 750GB HDD, DVDRW, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 610M, 15.6" Display, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, Black

WTF IS A SSD, IGOT A STD, BUT GOT A SHOT TO CURE THE STD...

cravnravn wrote:WTF IS A SSD, IGOT A STD, BUT GOT A SHOT TO CURE THE STD...

New version of the HD........digital so it isn't a spinning disc .

Well you can add an SSD pretty cheap these days...

I got my 128GB for about $120.....

And thats really all you need for a laptop...

Your wireless runs on batteries like mine?

You better buy stock in Ever ready.Wego thru two batterie a week with me and my Son.