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[neye_eve]

Klaus - the laptop

emachnines 6805. same as the 6807 but only cd-rw instead of dvd r/w (I already have a dvd burner in another machine, so I don't really need a portable one).

I haven't heard the fan yet, so I don't know if it's on or not, but I've been in an office with people talking, so maybe it's on but just lost in the background noise?

Display is pretty darn nice. Not quite as nice as my desktop 17" tft, but still really nice. Native is 1280 x 800, 15" diagonal.

OS = xp home. Will eventually put on xp prof, but I don't really need it.

Just checking the boards after playing a long set of UT2K4 matches. I absolutely forgot that I was playing on a laptop, despite the fact that it is *in my lap*. That's how cool it's running - it's definitely warmer than air, but not hot to the point of discomfort by any stretch (I'm wearing pants, so those absorb some heat I'm sure). The point is, on my old laptop, doing even just websurfing was too hot for comfort. I can blast the cpu on this thing for an extended length of time and the heat is such that I even forget about it.

I'm sure centrinos and other mobile laptops are similarly cool, but I'm just amazed because 1) I'm used to something so much worse. and 2) because it's so cool given how much raw computational power it has.

neye