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    Windows 64 bit

    very good, it should be more violent tho :)
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    grounds for a full refund or new laptop of same spec ?

    yeah i think i shall :) make a nice mini itx computer and maybe hell a athlon 64 system with the proceeds :)
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    grounds for a full refund or new laptop of same spec ?

    cause they are lazy ignortant pig headed bastards ....and their name is fortune technology :)
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    grounds for a full refund or new laptop of same spec ?

    its been what...a hour since it snapped....and i'm still here looking at it laughing....its just too funny that they can expect someone to spend £1300 on that.. naw i think i'll be asking for a full refund ...dont want anything more to do with them...and they will give me it....cause trading...
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    grounds for a full refund or new laptop of same spec ?

    ok urm....about a fortnight has passed, i decided not to send it back to them immediatly because i needed it, and i'm just as well i did...tonight while about to reinstall windows i opened the screen like i usually do, (by holding the main laptop base component down and lifting the screen...
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    Phone

    7610 *droooool
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    Laptop was shocking me. Problem traced to waterbed.

    didnt everybody else learn their lesson with edward scissorhands !?
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    grounds for a full refund or new laptop of same spec ?

    they've already said to me they want to repair it because its faulty due to their last repair...so i'm gonna push it :) thanks any more advice ?
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    grounds for a full refund or new laptop of same spec ?

    Hey guys, i purchased this laptop on september 2003, on the recommendation of my computer consultant, i thought it sounded great http://www.fortunetechnology.co.uk/ a fortune technologies 5620d p4 2.4ghz 512ddr ram radeon 9000 pro with 128mb standalone ram 40gb 5400rpm hdd 52/24x cdrw...
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    help me im deployed and my laptop doestn work anymore

    sounds like a scary dose of the trench drive to me.
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    Evil Genius

    yeah i've been playing it for 3 days, its one of those games that you play for about 4 hours then turn off so you can think about the best way to do the next bit, its excellent not many games get me thinking like this. definatly buy it.
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    MY sony 19" 12 ms

    omg......*dies of drooling
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    laptop lcd showing a flickering line

    phoned the company up and they are going to repair it for free if it is the connectors seeing as it most likely stemmed from them repairing it, but if it isnt i will have to pay for carriage and hardware inspection :S thanks guy.
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    laptop lcd showing a flickering line

    its those bloody panda's at fortune. last time i sent it back apart from the power pack issue i also had to send it back cause they had broke the "o" key so it fell off now and again. i fixed that myself, then the spacebar key didnt react when you pressed it (no space) great i get to shout at...
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    bad time to get a lcd now?

    i personally wouldnt go near a lcd monitor yet, sure they are fancy, they are nice and clear, but they are very very nice and very expensive when you consider what they do.
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    laptop lcd showing a flickering line

    absolutely solid pixel lines yes, and the rest of the monitor is fine, i was playing dawn of war on it last night and the line showed up again still flickering but like just a blue flickering lines going up and down vertictly, but never straying from the bar. never seen anything like it :S
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    laptop lcd showing a flickering line

    its a 1 year old system. and no they are fools, had alot of hassle with them in the past (i.e them not sending me my power pack back after replacing a hdd and saying i didnt put one in when i sent it to them.. 3 week delay ) hard ocp dudes come on !
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    laptop lcd showing a flickering line

    bump. no ideas then ? fook.
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    laptop lcd showing a flickering line

    its on my fortune technology. laptop http://www.fortune.plus.com/pdf/510E.pdf not exactly that system but more or less, i know i havent given you many details but its late. actually no, heres more info, it shows up mainly on blue hues, and it flickers but on normal web browsing or games you...
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    How to run m6805 at 800mhz while pluged in ?

    yeah i wish my sound machine which i bought for £30 to help me sleep came with the noise from a fan. it'd be cheaper than leaving my system on :)
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    Choosing between 3 dells

    dont buy a dell is my advice :)
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    How much battery life do YOU get?

    fortune tech p4 2.4ghz 512ddr 40gb hdd i get about 2 hours of everything solid on, i could probably stretch it to 4 hours too like you guys but i dont see the point :)
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    Seagate announces 7.2KRPM 2.5"HD with up to 100G

    i'm happy with 5400 in my laptop and a 7200 drive will cost LOT up to 100gb
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    Laptop wont turn on ...

    thanks for completely proving me wrong and yeah the formatting the drive on dell sounds about right heh
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    Laptop wont turn on ...

    i was worried about my data too man, i'm a professional photographer and i had a good 3 shoots on it that i hadnt backed up about £2000 worth of pay. ask dell when you send it back to do everything in their power to attempt to retrieve the data.
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    Laptop wont turn on ...

    sounds like the hard drive to me mate. i had the same problem my laptop was about 8 months old and i left it on for 30 days lol ....i know silly. but i didnt pay for it ...college did, and one day the hdd just couldnt take it no more...i thought it was the graphics card, or the battery but...
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    ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

    i've only got a 9000,still better than my bloody desktop tho :)
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    ATI Mobility Radeon 9800

    i'd rather wait than get a dell lol
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    How good is Norton Professional?

    its design is a complete waste of time and if you end up not paying for it, it can be worse than a virus because it'll lock up your system tighter than the queen vic.
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    Talk me out of geting a Powerbook G4

    g4's are genius ..get one
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    Notebook Cooler

    well personally being a doom 3 gamer your stuff needs to be the coolest it can get and onboard stuff never cuts it for me. i use an akasa notebook cooler and its awesome,...they do work wonders but mine is powered by usb and then for you're trouble of losing one precious usb port you get 3...
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    power surges on trains ?

    thanks guys but i leave today so i'll let you all know how well they run off the power and see if it really is stable power for gaming :D
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    Computer room mod - links needed

    thats bad ass, i gotta give it a go :)
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    ati 7500 vs 9000?

    owned :(
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    is 15.4 wvga to big for travel

    i have a 15.4'' and its bloody heavy, but thats just my crappy laptop :) i think its possible if you work out a little bit ...forget hills tho :) i had to carry mine up the side of a extinct volcano to college every day for 2 years and it almost killed me i drunk 2 bottles of water on getting to...
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    ati 7500 vs 9000?

    i'd say ALOT. i dont think 7500 even has dx9 support so you can forget playing anything new. different core technology so the 9000 is alot better. not exactly sure why but those two reasons are enough :)
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    power surges on trains ?

    Lo guys, i'm travelling for 5 hours tomorrow, taking my laptop to kill the time ...i'm plugging into the trains power source and i was wondering how likely power surges are to happen them ? i've been thinking about it and its got me in a blooming state, i wanna play doom3 :(
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    Laptop Mod Questions -Painting, Stickers or Vinyl

    they are far out ..thanks mate ..gonna grab one :) ok maybe not Fusion 13 Laptop Skins - $34.99 Shipping calculate $30.60 Total: $65.59 lmao is there a uk company that do these ?
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    Doom3 on Inspiron 8500, Far Cry ran...why not this?

    think back to farcry, did it run well indoors with all that heavy dynamic lighting ? cause thats probably the only way how farcry and doom 3 is similar ..farcry didnt push the envelope as much as they'd like to think. and they were a bit bastardly and didnt support mobility cards so i've...
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    wondering how doom will run on your mobile system? look here

    get some fps data for us all. alt +ctrl + ¬ = when the console comes up type com_showfps 1 and com showfps 0 to take it off. i can run 800x600 at a constant 30, hits 60 now and again on 800x600 on medium detail on my 2.4 ghz 512ddr radeon 9000 which is perfectly playable.
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