friedkamote

I bought an (ACER) EMachines D725 a year ago.

Intel Dual-Core T4200 @ 2GHz

Intel GMA 4500MHD video adapter

4GB dual-channel DDR2-800 (upgraded from 2GB single-channel)

320GB HDD (upgraded from 160GB)

Battery life: 4+ hours (Multiple instances of MSOffice programs with wifi receiver turned-off)

I urgently needed a utilitarian and no-frills laptop for my presentations, word-processing, and web-browsing needs that time. I didnt want anything expensive or fancy (since these become obsolete anyway in a mere 3-4 years and i have no use for the added ports). Something that's low-profile and doesn't scream "Hey mister mugger i have a very expensive and shiny laptop you can steal!". I was actually considering a lenovo netbook because of portability issues but i was turned-off by the fact that they dont come with built-in optical drives. At first i was skeptical since i knew EMachine's reputation in the US before being bought by Gateway and then ACER. So far it has been serving me well. No problems encountered. It's fast enough for what i use it for and has good battery life. Great bang for the buck!

"Don't blend in with your surroundings. Be yourself and your surroundings will blend in with you"

College.

It was my first taste of FREEDOM!!!! No parents, no curfew, no one telling me to do this and that...i love being on my own.

Anyone here remember the comics "Psi-Force"?

I like the power's of Wayne Tucker to "Push" people (telepathically control the thoughts and actions of multiple targets simultaneously).

...now, when i tell someone to kiss their own a**, they will.

During my highschool and college days i was a voracious reader of books written by Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickmann. Some of my favorites books where; The Hunt For Red October, A Time To k*ll, and the Dragonlance Chronicles.

Personally i think it's murder plain and simple....for whatever reason, the human being growing inside a woman had no hand whatsoever on the circumstances that happened that led to his/her conception. Can you blame the unborn child for the sin of being conceived? Hell no! Be it the result of rape or just plain stupidity. Blame the situation, not the unborn.

I find women wearing eye-glasses attractive. I also get attracted more to intelligent girls (mas marami kami napapagusapan kasi).

I love my ice cream plain and simple. Vanilla, Mango, or Strawberry.

FHM, Maximum PC, PC World, T3, and Cosmopolitan (yeah i read that too)

Natatandaan ko, nung grade 1 ako favorite ko yung "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" and yung mga ibong adarna books (Filipino folktales)

Miller, Carlsburg, Budweiser...

Also tried Sapporo Beer and Tiger Beer (With Ginseng)

Bought a PC (downpayment) and a PlayStation

I was trying to give half of it to my mom but she said that there's no need to give it to her. I earned it, so i can buy anything with it....i love my mom

I prefer reading books then watching the movie version. There are more details of events written in books (it's also quite difficult to convey thoughts in movies).

Still...i also watch the movie version, just to put faces on the characters.

In my room.

I turn my pc on and play games...it helps me from going insane

None Stop To Nowhere - Faster Pussycat

Bistek Tagalog (na maraming sibuyas at patatas!)...hands down

Nong Shin/Shin Ramen....mahilig ako sa maanghang

Used to love eating at BM near our campus when i was still a college stude at UPLB. Where else can you get a burger at 2am in the morning in Laguna? lol

Mas masarap pa burger nila kaysa Jollibee (i really hate that pink sauce)...di ko lang alam ngayon, it's been years since i last ate at any BM stall.

I'm sorry to bother you with this but I don't know anyone else whom I can ask for advice. I want to buy my brother a laptop and he wants a quad core one. I searched for it's price on net and it's around 80-100K and my budget is only around 50K. My sister suggested to buy a dual core instead of the quad core. What's the difference between these two (except of course dual is 2 and quad is 4). And is it really a necessity to buy this quad-core thing for a computer engineering student as my brother implied to me?

Dagdag lang....

You mentioned that your brother is an engineering student right? Go for the Quad Core. I'm assuming they will be taught to use AutoCAD. This program can really bring a CPU to it's knees. AutoCAD is designed for multi-core processors, the more cores the better the performance. If you can't find a good Quad-Core laptop at your 50K range, get the best Core 2 Duo or Core i3 based laptop you can get. Don't look at the price of the laptop to determine the power of the cpu. I've seen cheap laptops with more powerful cpu's than their expensive counterparts.

san makakabili ng mother board with two processor slot nid ko kc para mabilis ang editing ko at pagwa ng mga ids

Ang alam ko lang (correct me if i'm wrong) na mga motherboard na may slot para sa dalawang physical CPU ay yung pang server (i.e. Intel Xeon)...it's not easy finding them on mainstream computer shops. And you don't need those, prohibitively expensive kasi. Just go for boards that can support Core i5's or i7's (if you're an intel guy) or boards that support AMD phenom II's. Kung editing lang at paggawa ng layout ng id gagawin mo overkill na ang Quad-Core CPU.

I love games with great stories. As for genre i prefer these:

FPS

RTS

Stealth Action

Space Combat Simulation

Wala bang kaso kung DDR2 lang ang RAM mo, tapos DDR3 ang videocard???

Nope. No problems with differing RAM types. The memory on your GPU is accessed exclusively by the GPU only.

Anyway, i used to have two Geforce 8800 GTS's in SLI config, recently upgraded it to two Geforce 250 GT's (also in SLI config).

Far Behind - Candlebox

Don't Dream It's Over - Sixpence None The Richer

Easy - Faith No More