I'm not sure I want to go through the process of reformatting and then reinstalling all the drivers for the laptop. I'll probably just disable the extra services and processes in msconfig. But if it's really that bad, I will reformat as a last resort.some_random_panda wrote:
You'll want to install a clean Vista without Lenovo crap on it. It's harder connecting to internet with their utility than just the normal one. They also have tons of services that you'll never use starting up every time you turn on the laptop, so get rid of it quickly.SpIk3y wrote:
Lenovo T500 Laptop
~ Vista Business x64
~ 64GB SSD
~ Core2Duo T9400 @ 2.53Ghz 6MB L2
~ 4GB DDR3 1067Mhz
~ 15.4" WSXGA+ TFT screen (1680 x 1050)
~ 9 cell battery
~ Integrated camera and fingerprint reader
For a little over $1,800 with tax.
Quite excited!!
The T500 and R500 are pretty similar under the hood. The only thing that didn't work out of the box on a fresh vista install for mine was the fingerprint reader
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
^ JealousJenspm wrote:
Just ordered the Samsung UE46B7070 - 46" LED TV
http://kotisivukone.fi/files/wanhatwari … 4996_3.jpg
Busting my ass off trying to find a store that has the Samsung BD-P1600 in stock..
http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/produc … 600-f.jpeg
My new HDD.
Western Digital Caviar Black. Upside down, if you got a problem with that as Swan would sit sit upside down at your desk.
Western Digital Caviar Black. Upside down, if you got a problem with that as Swan would sit sit upside down at your desk.
Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 4GHz || 3x2 GB OCZ 1600Mhz DDR3 || 80GB Intel X25-M Gen 2 || KFA2 GTX 480 1536Mb ||| Samsung T220 || Xonar DX 7.1 || AV 40 || P6T Deluxe V2 || Win 7 HP 64 Bit || Lian Li P80
Two huge-ass 250W variable power supplies, two 60W less beefy ones, one Salora 6000A (bottom stereo) and one Bang&Olufsen Beomaster 900:
The Salora is a beefy 2x35W receiver that weighs a staggering 20kg. It's made out of steel and 5mm thick plastic.
The Salora is a beefy 2x35W receiver that weighs a staggering 20kg. It's made out of steel and 5mm thick plastic.
Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2009-07-06 15:23:44)
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Bought myself a pair of Sennheiser CX 300 II earphones while i was on holidays. My $8 earphones from ebay were shitting me to tears. I'm sure they aren't the best earphones around, but they are a ENORMOUS improvement over my old ones
bought two 12" earthquake subs and a cerwin vega amp a couple days ago
bought the amp wiring kit today going to install tomorrow
bought the amp wiring kit today going to install tomorrow
I got Nokia N97. Today, when I got it, was the first day it was available.
Nice! How much did you pay? Thats some serious kickass buy
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It was 679€ at Gigantti. Online would have been cheaper, but I didn't bother.GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:
Nice! How much did you pay? Thats some serious kickass buy
bought an Akasa Integral P2 external HDD case - it's awesome. Easy to install, sleek design, and supports IDE and SATA with output of USB 2.0 or eSATA. Only thing I with it had was a remote, as the switches (power and switch between USB/eSATA) are at the back, kinda hard to reach when in a media rack thing.Jenspm wrote:
Just ordered the Samsung UE46B7070 - 46" LED TV
http://kotisivukone.fi/files/wanhatwari … 4996_3.jpg
Busting my ass off trying to find a store that has the Samsung BD-P1600 in stock..
http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/produc … 600-f.jpeg
Connected it directly via USB to the TV, and the TV played movie files like a champ. 1080p x264 files were played without problems. Dissapointing that one could only fast forward at 2x speed - annoying if you sit on your remote and exit the program and have to ffwd to where you were. Doesn't support DTS or VC-1 from mkv files, which is dissapointing. I would also like ISO support, but I can live without.
Mind you, I haven't applied any firmware updates, don't know what they'd bring to the table.
The music player is absolutely rubbish - importing my relatively small library (~40GB) would've taken ages.. It took like half an hour to import a dozen albums. I stopped it there.
Picture quality is amazing - if you turn off the 100Hz. I like the BD Wise function, which seems to set the picture settings for you, depending on the TV... Not sure, picture is nice though, but I haven't done any more calibration than that, other than turn off the 100Hz setting that caused picture noise.
Sound is pretty bad, even for an integrated. But meh, most people would buy external audio systems with this TV - too bad we didn't.
Black levels were surprisingly good, not exactly a Kuro, but good nonetheless.
And did I mention it's sexy as fuck? Well, it is.
Haven't tried playing a DVD with the Blu-Ray player yet- so I can't say anything about the upscaling. Blu-Ray movies are fucking sex though
4GB OCZ Reaper ddr2-1066
OCZ XTC memory cooler
OCZ XTC memory cooler
Purchasing pair of these in like an hour an a half, sup and freezer eat your hearts out!
Klipsch RF62 Floorstanders
pics when installed in my system later!
Klipsch RF62 Floorstanders
pics when installed in my system later!
Nice going! What are you driving them with?SonderKommando wrote:
Purchasing pair of these in like an hour an a half, sup and freezer eat your hearts out!
Klipsch RF62 Floorstanders
http://www.ultimateelectronics.com/prod … SMBUWV.jpg
pics when installed in my system later!
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Ive posted my system many times lol.Freezer7Pro wrote:
Nice going! What are you driving them with?SonderKommando wrote:
Purchasing pair of these in like an hour an a half, sup and freezer eat your hearts out!
Klipsch RF62 Floorstanders
http://www.ultimateelectronics.com/prod … SMBUWV.jpg
pics when installed in my system later!
http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=92475&p=3
I already have a Klipsch RC52 center w/ T90e floorstanders... I want all Klipsch though, I read somewhere that its best to match tweeters; Klipsch has the Tractix horn tweeter and Polk's is domed. Any validity to that?
Plus the center is so amazing that I am dying for them all around.
Pics
they are pretty sick.
Last edited by SonderKommando (2009-07-14 13:23:46)
decent
No, they are awesome, I envy you. You're lucky I don't have enough space in my room for one two of these hehe
Gratz mate, enjoy them!
No, they are awesome, I envy you. You're lucky I don't have enough space in my room for one two of these hehe
Gratz mate, enjoy them!
LOL. You now need to get a bigger flat-screen.
And some damping. I find your lack of glass fiber and bass traps disturbing.Ilocano wrote:
LOL. You now need to get a bigger flat-screen.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
bass traps are in the corners. He didn't post a pic showing his room cornersFreezer7Pro wrote:
And some damping. I find your lack of glass fiber and bass traps disturbing.Ilocano wrote:
LOL. You now need to get a bigger flat-screen.
Still, there should be damping on the walls..Sup wrote:
bass traps are in the corners. He didn't post a pic showing his room cornersFreezer7Pro wrote:
And some damping. I find your lack of glass fiber and bass traps disturbing.Ilocano wrote:
LOL. You now need to get a bigger flat-screen.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
My LCD is big enough to get by, I pumped four times what the TV is worth into the audio. I know I need damping Freezer, but as a full time desktop support technician and student; the project keeps getting put off, and yes I do use the corner as a bass trap.Freezer7Pro wrote:
Still, there should be damping on the walls..Sup wrote:
bass traps are in the corners. He didn't post a pic showing his room cornersFreezer7Pro wrote:
And some damping. I find your lack of glass fiber and bass traps disturbing.
Last edited by SonderKommando (2009-07-14 16:24:15)
Don't SSDs have limited writes before they get slow?SpIk3y wrote:
I'm not sure I want to go through the process of reformatting and then reinstalling all the drivers for the laptop. I'll probably just disable the extra services and processes in msconfig. But if it's really that bad, I will reformat as a last resort.some_random_panda wrote:
You'll want to install a clean Vista without Lenovo crap on it. It's harder connecting to internet with their utility than just the normal one. They also have tons of services that you'll never use starting up every time you turn on the laptop, so get rid of it quickly.SpIk3y wrote:
Lenovo T500 Laptop
~ Vista Business x64
~ 64GB SSD
~ Core2Duo T9400 @ 2.53Ghz 6MB L2
~ 4GB DDR3 1067Mhz
~ 15.4" WSXGA+ TFT screen (1680 x 1050)
~ 9 cell battery
~ Integrated camera and fingerprint reader
For a little over $1,800 with tax.
Quite excited!!
Not really.Finray wrote:
Don't SSDs have limited writes before they get slow?SpIk3y wrote:
I'm not sure I want to go through the process of reformatting and then reinstalling all the drivers for the laptop. I'll probably just disable the extra services and processes in msconfig. But if it's really that bad, I will reformat as a last resort.some_random_panda wrote:
You'll want to install a clean Vista without Lenovo crap on it. It's harder connecting to internet with their utility than just the normal one. They also have tons of services that you'll never use starting up every time you turn on the laptop, so get rid of it quickly.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Dunno where I read that. Oh well.Freezer7Pro wrote:
Not really.Finray wrote:
Don't SSDs have limited writes before they get slow?SpIk3y wrote:
I'm not sure I want to go through the process of reformatting and then reinstalling all the drivers for the laptop. I'll probably just disable the extra services and processes in msconfig. But if it's really that bad, I will reformat as a last resort.
Got this from my step-brother.
Just as well as my CRT was dying. Brightness was at max and still couldn't see shit. Nice clear image from this one though.
Actually many of the cheaper MLC based SSDs do get slower over time. Some faster than others depending how good the drives internal wear-leveling is. Every decent SSD can handle normal laptop use, but when you put it into OS drive of your nice desktop PC, things could get ugly over time; some drives work just nicely for long time, some start struggling fast.
Windows 7 introduces a special function to counter this. TRIM. It is the SSD equivalent to Defrag of HDDs (defrag doesn't work on SSDs). Too bad most drives won't support this yet. Some like OCZ Vertex will get firmware update for TRIM support.
Windows 7 introduces a special function to counter this. TRIM. It is the SSD equivalent to Defrag of HDDs (defrag doesn't work on SSDs). Too bad most drives won't support this yet. Some like OCZ Vertex will get firmware update for TRIM support.
Last edited by GC_PaNzerFIN (2009-07-15 01:33:40)
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