What kind of computer is everyone using?

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LoL, Jack, I had one of those growing up.??Good ol' Cardboard 64's.??I see yours is one of the newer ones with mouse support.??Mine ran on calculator shortcuts.??=/

In anycase, I'm on a laptop.??But not just any laptop!??I'm on a Toshiba Satellite R25-S3513 tablet PC!??=D??That's means I can use a pen to point, click, draw, or write on the screen!??Hand-written text is understood and converted to text in a selected text field!??The screen can rotate 180? then close back down (the latch also flips to this position), then the screen changes from a landscape layout to portrait.??You can change which way you're holding the tablet with the rotate button on the face (portrait or landscape, either direction).??There are five buttons and a multi-directional pad (which is one of the five buttons when pressed) which can all be set to any hotkey one wishes - including F-keys!??Turn on /q1 and I've got all three of my skill tiers on the face of my computer with F9 on the side of my pen.??=3

Aside from being a tablet it sports an Intel Core Duo T2050 (1.6GHz, 533MHz FSB) processor, 1024MB (512MBx2) DDR2 ram at 533MHz, an Intel GMA950 GMU (which sucks, but I don't play any 3-D games and I don't run things that waste resources like Vista's aero glass theme, so I'm okay with that - it allows my system to run a lot cooler), 100GB hard drive 5400RPM SATA, 14.1" widescreen LCD TruBrite WXGA+ (1440x900) display, a Fingerprint reader, and Windows Vista connected to a 20mb wireless lan.??It's an all-around fun little toy I bought from my brother when he got demoted at his job and no longer needed a laptop.??

Set-ups are as follows.??I'm unable to do the fun stuff I was speaking of earlier with the stylus since my 18-month old nephew ran off with said stylus.??Communication is a pain with that anyway as I can't use it to write in RO lest I window RO.??You see, when requiring hand-writing-to-text conversion, you click on this little window that hides 98% of itself beyond the right side of your screen.??When you do, the 750x150p window opens in the middle of the screen with 1 of three faces.??You can choose a solid blank line, a line divided into individual cells per letter, or a virtual keyboard.??Plus, I can type a lot faster than I can write.??I can keep this window in the bottom of my screen for easy chatting, but a 14-inch is small enough as is in full screen.??=/??Ventrilo or TeamSpeak would make this a lot better.

When the TV is not in use I set my laptop on my guitar stool and plug it into our 55" 1080i HDTV via s-video cable, the audio into our surround sound, and don my wireless gear for optimal living room RO'ing!??
When it is in use I set my laptop on a coffee table (we have two in the living room =p ) with the screen turned at the aforementioned 180? - though not closed, plug in my wireless gear, and make my desk on a couch or an armchair.??=p

The other day I had it plugged into the big screen and I was playing RO in my brother's massage chair listening to Mozart.? XD
My brother makes $1,200 a week.??It's great.??
I only make $300.??

My brother makes four times as much money as I do.??And I'm the one who graduated!??xD

That's funny.??At least I get to play with all of his really cool stuff; and I get to buy it off of him if he gets bored with it or no longer has a use for it.??Like this laptop or my big screen... which got ran over when one of my brother's drunk friends drove through our garage... >_>


I plan on getting a Novatel Ovation with Sprint so I can play at work on my lunch breaks since I never have anything to do anyway.??=p??Plus, it has GPS and software for finding the nearest w/e which is something I think all mobile devices should have this day and age.??


So, there's my little set up which is made awesome by my brother's expensive toys.??Some people have custom-built powerhouses; I play on a big screen HDTV in surround sound sitting in a massage chair listening to Mozart.??/rice

It's a lot better than my old PC... We won't say anything about it, but you can see how well its integrated video processor produced simple transparencies...And how some of them stayed in the middle of my screen...??>_>

Here's a screeny when I was borrowing a room mates vid card in Aluquerque of transparencies as they should appear for comparison to my above screenies representing how transparencies should not appear (that is, opaque).??The only screeny I could find that had a warp on it in my photobucket was when I was leveling my g/f-of-the-time's priestess behind her back to both freak her out and to be the sweet kinda guy I am.??=p