Lord_T

I would suggest avoiding apple, since even though they are advertising pc compatibility and free ipods and whatnot, apples as sleek as they may be are not for the same amount of money anywhere near the performance of a pc, especially where desktops are concerned and even so where laptops are concerned, so maybe or maybe not the best college idea, even though the newer macs open up some interesting possbilities. Oh, and stay away from everything sony, since sony tried to rootkit peoples machines through music cds, dvds, etc. :shame: And I'm still loving my HP AMD Turion 64 Laptop!

Notebook and laptop refer to the same thing, it's just that some use one word and some use the other. Notebook refers to the size and shape of it, laptop refers to how it's used and where you use it, but the two are synonymous. And I have heard some good things about toshiba and dell also, though toshiba doesn't tend to use AMD processors, which are better and cheaper, and dell has its issues also... I'm not saying anyone else is perfect though, since every brand has something annoying about it.

Glad to hear it, I've been loving this laptop. Oh, and just so you know, one of the PC magazines (I think it was PC Magazine or PC World) did a lineup of medium size laptops (15.4 in) like the dv5000z and it came out on top, and its big brother the dv8000z in large laptops (17 in) came out on top in its category as well! :thumbsup: =D> \

I have a little perspective on this issue, since I just went through buying one for college myself. I got an HP dv5000z running on the highest processor I could get for it (the AMD Turion 64 ML-40, a 2.2 GHz 64 bit CPU), a 120GB HD, 2.0GB of RAM an ATI Xpress 200M 128MB video card with HyperTransport, 15.4 in widescreen display, DVD +-R/RW with +DL and CD-RW abilities also, built-in wireless b/g, and Windows XP Pro for under $1,500, not bad at all, and after putting stuff like ZoneAlarm firewall and NOD32 antivirus on it, I'm loving it! When I went through and did my research and what not, I found that an HP was a low cost way to get a ggod machine, and I have to say that the one I got could easily be used as a gaming machine. Since your budget is 2000 to 3000 dollars, go use the other $500 to $1500 either building yourself a nice desktop to go along with it, or getting cool accessories for your laptop. If you want to check out the HP dv5000z, go here: Specs page for dv5000z and you can also quickly get to other HP models from there. Just go to the customize page and start experimenting on the laptop and see which upgrades you can afford. I just upgraded everything since I wanted to push back as far as possible the amount of time it would take for my laptop to be on the low end, which I'm sure will only be a few months, but I hope it will take a little longer. :)

I know exactly what you mean. I just got a laptop and I keep noticing that if its not exactly at the right angle, I have to keep adjusting it. Then I think, "dang I wish I was using a CRT" then I remember, "oh yeah, I'm on a laptop..." But I still like to do most things on CRT monitors and I really prefer to watch stuff others are doing if they're using CRT monitors, since I can't even see it if they use a flatscreen. Oh, and goblinmatt12, that eMachines with the AMD Sempron looks nice and its easily within your budget. I would go with it since it should be able to to do CounterStrike no sweat and should do the latest games at decent to moderately high settings. I'm noticing that it starts with 256 MB of Memory so an even cheaper way to sqeeze some more performace out of it would be to go somewhere during a good sale and get a couple of 512MB or 1GB memory sticks and upgrade it to its maximum portential on memory since that would be a fairly cheap and painless upgrade, and would give your computer more to work with. For now though, 256MB of memory should do just fine for you, and I always say that AMD is the way to go! 8-)

Actually, there is a surprisingly easy way to do this, that does not require any outside programs of your own, one that I actually tripped over by accident one day. Here it is: 1. Open notepad and type the reminder you want to see the next time you boot up your computer. 2. Save the file with an easily recognizable name either in a easy to find place so you can find it and move/copy it or directly to where it needs to end up, which is: The startup group! It just so happens that if there is a text file in your startup group, it will open and come up along with everything else that happens when your computer starts up, under Windows XP that would be after you log in. 3. Enjoy your homemade reminder! Just so you know how to get to your startup group, I'll attempt to give you the proper path, and if this isn't exactly like it, it should be very close: C:\Documents and Settings\Insert your username here\Start Menu\Programs\Startup If there is more than one user on your computer, each one will have their own unique startup items, as such, go to the directory that corresponds to your account, since if you don't and put it in the all users startup, everyone will see your reminder, or if you put it in another user's startup, someone else will see it, and you won't. Once you have put it there you can make sure that it is in fact in your startup group by opening the start menu, going to "All Programs" and going to the Startup group on the programs submenu. After you are done with the reminder, you can change the text of the file in the startup group to be a welcome message or another reminder or just move it out of the startup directory (or hide it, though this is only advisable if you have set your folder options to show hidden files, which most people don't have it set to, so if you don't know, don't hide the file, or you won't see it to get it back again) so that it won't come up at every bootup. That's it, it's doable in about 30 seconds and it requires no special software, no downloads, and about zero technical knowledge! Hope it helps. 8-)

During my first couple days playing, I got tricked into picking up the zammy wine by some high level @$$, who laughed his head off while I got owned by half a dozen zammy monks, and then I managed to go into the varrock sewers exploring, only to find that without food, I was no match for a level 3 or 6 Giant Rat (ooh scary), and I lost what I now consider to be noobish items, but at the time I was seriously like "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" over some basic bronze or steel or something, especially since a good friend of mine had given me full steel, though I think I lost that at the Zammy Temple. Oh, and then to make matters worse, I lost my first set of full mith to some I3@$t@rd who asked me to "help him get back to lumbridge quickly" by fighting him in the wilderness. At the time I didnt know that if you started the fight, you got skulled and lost everything, so as I'm fighting him, he puts his armor and weapon back on and owns me (I think he had food too), and I got back to lumbridge and almost wet myself with horror, since I didnt even get to keep my three items. Oh, and I've almost been beaten by level 7 and/or 20 dark wizards ( I actually had to run one day) and I purposefully let grayzag kill me for the quick trip to lumby when I did the restless ghost quest. :twisted: :evil: 8-) :evil: :twisted:

I'm with firestrike: Can someone please explain what this runecrafting on world 16 is? I've been playing for about a year now, and I only have an rc lvl of 28, and have been looking for inventive ways to train it, but I've never heard of the world 16 air company. :evil: :twisted: 8-) :twisted: :evil: