new machine

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:22 am

TheCatt wrote:I got the following Windows Experience #s with my new HP:
Processor 6.7
RAM 6.7
Graphics - Aero: 4.9
Graphics - 3D 5.7
HD: 5.9

I'm reading that 5.9 is still the max?

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:44 am

It changed for Windows 7.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:51 am

Ahhhhhh.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:02 pm

New machine should be built no later than April 21st. Which means even if their 5-7 day shipping fucks up, it'll arrive by the beginning of May.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:23 am

So how much $?

They've got a $350 off coupon again for that machine off of $1249 or higher:
NBS66584

If you paid more, cancel and re-order.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:33 am

TheCatt wrote:So how much $?

They've got a $350 off coupon again for that machine off of $1249 or higher:
NBS66584

If you paid more, cancel and re-order.

I believe I shall. Might upgrade the CPU. How long do they normally give you to cancel an order?

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:43 am

Malcolm wrote:
TheCatt wrote:So how much $?

They've got a $350 off coupon again for that machine off of $1249 or higher:
NBS66584

If you paid more, cancel and re-order.
I believe I shall. Might upgrade the CPU. How long do they normally give you to cancel an order?

At Gateway, you had until it shipped.

And even then you could return it.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:58 am

Rock. Do I have to call them or is there some automatic form to fill out?

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:01 am

I don't know. I returned mine after it arrived and it was SUPER easy. But you had to call.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:04 am

Yeah, call for an RMA if it already shipped. Don't even open it, that way you don't need to repack it.

edit - Or, you could just try to get them to retroactively apply the new discount and save everyone the time. They might go for that. Newegg did for me, once.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:13 am

GORDON wrote:Yeah, call for an RMA if it already shipped. Don't even open it, that way you don't need to repack it.

edit - Or, you could just try to get them to retroactively apply the new discount and save everyone the time. They might go for that. Newegg did for me, once.

Had to call their customer service line yesterday anyhoo. We'll see if they play ball.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:17 am

Can effectively upgrade the CPU w\ another $100 with that deal. If I cancel the order, how long does it take them to credit back my account?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:37 am

Order already sent to the factory or something. Probably have to wait till it shows up, send it back, wait for credit, then get a new one perhaps.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:54 am

Malcolm wrote:Can effectively upgrade the CPU w\ another $100 with that deal. If I cancel the order, how long does it take them to credit back my account?

That would be company specific.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:09 pm

Apparently 5-7 days. Maybe it'll get built & shipped quick.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:24 am

Shipped. Should arrive by the end of this week.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:25 am

Machine's in town at the sort facility. Wonder how long it'll sit there.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:37 pm

Going to pick it up later this evening after a missed delivery.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:25 pm

Holy balls.

The laptop has a ten-key set. Fucking awesome. As far as OS ease, smoothest development environment install ev4r. So far. The downloads from the MSDN site are being ... bitchy. Plugging this thing into a dock & a couple monitors or TV would be double plus fucking awesome. CPU & RAM look to be capable of hauling serious ass. I've got about a decade plus of PC gaming to catch up on.

EDIT : I also get to start fucking with the Parallels library in .Net 4. Rawk.

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Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:28 pm

GORDON wrote:
TheCatt wrote:I got the following Windows Experience #s with my new HP:
Processor 6.7
RAM 6.7
Graphics - Aero: 4.9
Graphics - 3D 5.7
HD: 5.9
I'm reading that 5.9 is still the max?

The Aero is what's holding me back to, but it's at 5.7.

Processor Intel® Core™ i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz 6.2 5.7
Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB 7.3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M 5.7
Gaming graphics 3835 MB Total available graphics memory 5.9
Primary hard disk 237GB Free (285GB Total) 5.9