Am I Odd / Crazy?

[Inferno.]

All Alienware owners are knobs.

[Bennieboi20]

All Alienware owners are knobs.

lol are they even that good, i know some people have said they've gone downhill now that Dell own them but are they worth the money?

[Kouen Hasuki]

your more than welcome Kouen, dont listen to the haters I can tell your pasionate about doing this upgrade so if your liking it then why not its like saying that why should you bother being a ball boy for tennis, if you enjoy it and you feel that your getting a good experience from it then its up to you what you do and i agree with what you said aswell why not play older games, sure there are various ports and remakes but nothing comes close to actually playing a good old game to bring back the nostalgia i for one had it whilst playing FF 8 on epsxe and finally completing it after 8-9 years? i think lol its a sense of achievment very much like you will be when you have finished upgrading it btw what OS is/was it?

Its 2000 or XP Compatible, I Run it on Win XP though a customised install version with the crap trimmed out so it has only what the laptop needs

[Eric Corona]

Just wondering but i had gotten a new laptop and for some reason my old one after not even 30 mminutes of use it turns it self off for no reason! I even have it plugged into the wall and everything. same thing. just wondering what could cause this.

[Sprung]

Just wondering but i had gotten a new laptop and for some reason my old one after not even 30 mminutes of use it turns it self off for no reason! I even have it plugged into the wall and everything. same thing. just wondering what could cause this.

Sounds like it is overheating. Is the fan running?

[Mailmann006]

My apologies man. I didn't really mean it quite the way you took it. Maybe you should have posted the rest of the chat instead of taking it to the heart that I was intentionally taking a stab at your laptop. Again, if I offended you or your laptop I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. BTW, I don't recall ever calling you gay, nor do I think that nostalgic old pieces are garbage. I don't play current gen much and I just finished a MAME cabinet recently.

[Zach Baldwin]

I have an Acer Eee PC Netbook from 2004 so don't feel badbecause your A LITTLE outdated. As for wasting the time updating an old machine... if you can afford all of that why not just buy a new laptop?

[Nemkoon]

Dang it...Accidently pressed thank post instead of neg rep.

Crap.

[Rockstar1983]

Kouen - I think it's great that you've put such time and effort into your legacy machine. My main PC is an HP dv9000 laptop... it's quite capable, and I don't really need another machine...

However, I still keep an old Gateway Desktop that was given to me years ago. The specs are laughable (It runs Windows 98), but it works great for FCE Ultra, SNES9x, and GENS+, and it also runs Xpadder like a champ with my USB gamepad. If I get the spare cash, I may start upgrading the old thing. Hell, I might even gut it, buy a new MoBo and start from scratch (the case is nice and big, with plenty of room for whatever purpose I choose).

All that being said, don't listen to the haters. You love your "Bionic Laptop", and you're the only one it needs to impress. Good show!

EDIT - @Nemesis: Don't you think negative rep is a little harsh for that guy above? Maybe his folks have decent cash flow, and he hasn't discovered the "Do it Yourself" thrills of making something from nothing yet. That is, NOT counting, *ahem* "self-massage". We're still talking about computers, here.

[Nemkoon]

Kouen - I think it's great that you've put such time and effort into your legacy machine. My main PC is an HP dv9000 laptop... it's quite capable, and I don't really need another machine...

However, I still keep an old Gateway Desktop that was given to me years ago. The specs are laughable (It runs Windows 98), but it works great for FCE Ultra, SNES9x, and GENS+, and it also runs Xpadder like a champ with my USB gamepad. If I get the spare cash, I may start upgrading the old thing. Hell, I might even gut it, buy a new MoBo and start from scratch (the case is nice and big, with plenty of room for whatever purpose I choose).

All that being said, don't listen to the haters. You love your "Bionic Laptop", and you're the only one it needs to impress. Good show!

EDIT - @Nemesis: Don't you think negative rep is a little harsh for that guy above? Maybe his folks have decent cash flow, and he hasn't discovered the "Do it Yourself" thrills of making something from nothing yet. That is, NOT counting, *ahem* "self-massage". We're still talking about computers, here.

He doesn't understand sedimental value of Kouen's laptop.

[Sprung]

He doesn't understand sedimental value of Kouen's laptop.

The value of the laptop settles to the bottom slowly, over a long period of time, and builds up?

[Andy_Jerk]

The value of the laptop settles to the bottom slowly, over a long period of time, and builds up?

Yes. Like cake.

[!nstaGib]

I think you're just wasting your time. You would get far better results from just buying a new laptop. Just retire that one and use it for a torrent machine.

[Kouen Hasuki]

I think you're just wasting your time. You would get far better results from just buying a new laptop. Just retire that one and use it for a torrent machine.

A New laptop would come with Windows 7 though I need XP for some of the uses I Use with this Laptop like older games that dont work on vista / 7

[Knightshade]

I already gave my opinion and i think it's ok to upgrade but if you were to get a new one you could still run your older games in compatibility mode