"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce)
01/25/2020 at 02:50 • Filed to: None
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"themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles" (themanwithsauce)
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Chromalusion paint onna 13 year old laptop is still looking fresh after a polish and wax. Gotta love automotive paint on computers when it comes to longevity. I’m restoring laptops tonight so I’ve also got an old Dell XPS that needs some freshening up.
How's the rest of Oppo doing tonight? Anyone in the market for a vintage laptop?
TheRealBicycleBuck
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/25/2020 at 03:06 |
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I’ve never been a fan of that paint, but’s it’s been implemented well on that laptop. I still have the DELL I wrote my dissertation on. I can’t bring myself to get rid of it.
CB
> themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
01/25/2020 at 03:13 |
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Falcon Northwest? I haven’t heard of them in ages.
That XPS design brings me back to when I wanted a gaming laptop in 2005.
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> CB
01/25/2020 at 03:33 |
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Yeah! I lusted after this exact Falcon back in 2006 when I was shopping for my first laptop for college. It’s wild to hold in my hands the computer I drooled over back when having 1500$ in graduation bucks was a big deal but still only about 1/4 of what was needed for a falcon.
And the XPS is a 2005/2006/2007 era hype machine. This one has the nvidia 7900GS so it’s a more mild version, but I have a dell Precision (the engineering/professional version) of the same chassis where someone swapped in the alienware 7900GTX and it’s a vintage beast so far. It’s kinda cool since it looks like a briefcase accessory but it can run basically anything besides Crysis.
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themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> TheRealBicycleBuck
01/25/2020 at 03:36 |
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It’s just too cool to me, as a fan of 2005-2012 era laptops and computer stuff. It brings back a lot of memories as it was something I used to read reviews about and see if/how I could get one. This one even came with the backpack and software so I know I could sell it for a pretty penny once I finish the refurb, but I’m keeping it as a piece of nostalgia for that glorious freshman year of college when everything was awesome, my friends and I had LAN sessions every night, the dorm food was crap, but already paid for, and the dorm’s sysadmin would send us sternly worded emails saying we used too much data.