HP Blackbird 002. Awesome gaming computer from HP.

[a21ozcoldcup]

m1710 XPS

Intel Core Duo T2600 @ 2,16 GHz
17" skjerm i bredformat (1920 x 1200 piksler)
2 GB DDR-minne (2 x 1024 MB)
100 GB harddisk (7200 rpm)
8x DVD dual-layer DVD/CD-brenner
nVidia GeForce Go 7900GTX (512 MB minne)
54 Mbps WLAN (a/b/g)
Blåtann
Gigabit LAN + modem
6x USB, 1x FireWire (4-pin), lyd inn/ut
1 ExpressCard/54 plass
5-in-1 kortleser: SD, MMC, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, xD
DVI, VGA og S-Video-utgang (7-pins)
Dimensjoner (B/D/H): 39,5 x 28,7 x 4,7 cm
Vekt 4,0 kilo
Operativsystem: Windows XP Media Center Edition
Pris: 27.000 inkl. mva.

Just looking at the processor, and the graphics card at 7900 GTX, maybe the more expensive 7950 GTX, how that it be more powerful than the one I linked too? When they let you configure the hardware, I'm gonna stuff 2x NVIDIA GeForce 8800 ULTRA 756MB into it, with Quad-Core 3.0GHz.

And I don't see the point of having a "MOBILE" machine at 4kg. That isn't much mobile anymore. The worst is seeing a nerdy kid run around with a gigantic laptop thinking he's awesome. You forgot to mention that your laptop lasts if you're lucky MAX 2 hours, so much for a mobile super laptop huh.

The point of having a laptop is to have one you can easily carry around and use. And right now laptops isn't close to desktop machines hardware wise, maybe in some years, but not now. More powerful laptop = increase in size. Loses the whole point.

And to liquid black, in the other thread, you're talking about getting a new machine with the awesome geforce 8500 GT. It costs 550+ kr the 256 mb version, while the 512 is around 600 kr. A GeForce 8800GTX 768MB goes for 5k kr.

Obviously both of us got different views on what's a lot and not, it's just annoying to have a kid like you running and whine cause I'm going to spend more than you. I'm fully aware that it's overpriced, and I already said it in the first post, stop crying about it.

EDIT: typo

I understand what you are trying to say.. but my laptop is faster than that. You copied the weakest version of the m1710. The processor goes a lot faster, 2.33 can be overclocked, and has actually outscored a lot of popular options in desktops that run dual video cards (I run something like 512 but mooches some from my ram so 756 or so of video memory?) Integrated blu ray burner, card readers, smart card readers, bluetooth, etc, etc, etc, blah blah. Anyways... no I don't use it when I'm traveling, I DRIVE everywhere, I get it out once I ARRIVE.. Would you want to lug a desktop, keyboard, mouse, monitor and all the cables everywhere you go? Or take a laptop bag in, pull it out and plug it in. The only single cable I have to use is for power. That's easy, that's a logical reason to drop some extra money.

It's possible where you live they don't have those options? I'm not sure. It's very easy to find if you look for it. But anyways, I paid premium because I'm on the road. You are paying premium for? I'm just trying to save you some money man, even if you have it .. I think you should try waiting for a sale or the price to come down or build it yourself. It's a fine computer but really seems priced to rip you off IMO.


PPS: And my laptop is pretty easy to carry around (8lbs.. like two college text books), I don't take it anywhere public anyways.. so I don't care if anyone's impressed by it's fancy lights and case.

And if you are confused, I'm not suggesting you GET a laptop, I'm comparing how much spent/might spend and the logic behind it. I had a valid need for it. If I got a desktop it would be sitting back at my other apartment when I'm out of town. Then no SS.

[Bioture]

basically an 8k tag tells me you're spending an extra 6k to be able to look at a benchmark number and go "oooooh."

[Money]

I'd love to see someone put together with the same specs for 3k $. The price will drop, but that happens with any computers. And most people knows that high end computers drops the most in price.

It all depends on the money situation I guess, 8k $ may sound a lot for some of you.

you would love to? go to newegg.com and select all those parts and see what it ends up being dumb shit LOL

[Money]

basically an 8k tag tells me you're spending an extra 6k to be able to look at a benchmark number and go "oooooh."

pretty much

[Money]

Processor
AMD® X2 Dual Core Architecture

* 64 bit data paths and registers
* Hypertransport™ I/O Bus
* Up to SSE 3 support
* Integrated DDR2 memory Controler



Configurations

* Athlon™ AMD X2 6000+ 3.0GHz
o 1MB of L2 cache per processor


Intel® Core™ Micro architecture

* Up to SSE 3 support
* Energy efficiency optimization
* Thermal cut-outs to mitigate damage from system overclocking



Configurations

* Intel® Core2™ Duo 2.66GHz [E6750]; Dual Core; 4MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHz FSB
* Intel® Core2™ Extreme 2.93GHz [X6800]; Dual Core; 4MB of L2 cache; 1066 MHz FSB
* Intel® Core2™ Duo 3.0GHz [E6850]; Dual Core; 4MB of L2 cache; 1333 MHZ FSB
* Intel® Core2™ Extreme Quad-Core 3.0GHz [QX6850]; Quad Core; 8MB of L2 cache; 1333MHz


Memory

* 2 or 4 GB 667 MHz PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM
* 2 or 4 GB 800 MHz CORSAIR PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM
* 2 or 4 GB 1066MHz CORSAIR PC2-8500 DDR2 SDRAM SLI Ready

Four DIMM slots supporting up to 4 GB of main memory



256-bit-wide memory architecture


Graphics and Displays
Two Doublewide, 16-lane PCI Express graphics slot with one or more of the following graphic cards installed:

* NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600 GTS with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, supports Dual-Link DVI
* NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS with 640MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid cooling)
* NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX, with 756MB of GDDR3 SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid cooling)
* NVIDIA GeForce 8800 ULTRA, with 756MB of GDDR3 SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid cooling)

* ATI RADEON™ X2900 XT 512MB, with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid-cooling)
* ATI RADEON X2900™ XT 1GB, with 1GB of GDDR4 SDRAM, SDRAM supports Dual-Link DVI (available with liquid-cooling)
* ATI RADEON™ HD 2600 XT, with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, supports Dual-Link DVI (dual configuration only)



Supports both ATI Crossfire and NVDIA SLI multiple graphic card configurations



Ageia PhysX™ PCI-E GFX Accelerator Card



Four slots to support NVIDIA SLI or ATI Crossfire configurations with two PCIe graphics cards



Dual-link DVI ports support up to 2560 by 1600 pixels.



Support for analog resolutions up to 2048 by 1536 pixels at 85HZ



DVI to VGA adapter included



Dual-display support for extended desktops and video cloning modes


Communications

Two independent 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet (RJ-45) ports that can support jumbo frames with low latency on gigabit connections


Storage

Five independent Serial ATA hard drive bays
Up to 4TB of internal storage using drives with the following capacities:

* Hard drive bays 1 – 5 can be configured with the following drives
o 160GB 10,000 rpm SATA (Western Digital Raptor)
o 320GB 7200 rpm SATA
o 500GB 7200 rpm SATA
o 750GB 7200 rpm SATA


Two Super multi-drive, slim slots with Lightscribe (DVD+/-R/RW+/-DL)

* Writes DVD-R discs at up to 16x speed
* Writes DVD+R DL discs at up to 4x speed
* Reads DVDs at up to 8x speed
* Writes CD-R discs at up to 40x speed
* Writes CD-RW discs at up to 24x speed
* Reads CDs at up to 24x speed


A single 5 1/4 bay for Blu-ray Rewriter and HD DVD-ROM Super multi-drive with LightScribe BD-R/RE SL/DL read and write compatible

* CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW/RAM, +R/RW, +/- R DL
* CD Family, DVD-ROM read compatible
* HD DVD-ROM/R read compatible

Electrical and environmental requirements

* Line voltage: 100-120V AC or 200-240V AC (wide-range power supply input voltage)
* Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz single phase
* Current: Maximum of 12A (low-voltage range) or 6A (high-voltage range)
* Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
* Storage temperature: -40° to 116° F (-40° to 47° C)
* Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
* Maximum altitude: 10,000 feet


Peripherals and audio
Back panel:

* One PS/2 mouse port
* One PS/2 keyboard port
* Two eSATA ports
* One IEEE1394 port
* LCD screen (for diagnostics and status)
* LCD back light button (some boards only)
* SPDIF out and optical out port
* Two RJ-45 (Gigabit Ethernet) ports (number depends on MB)
* Four USB 2.0 ports (number depends on MB)


Top panel:

* 15 in 1 multi-card reader
* One IEEE1394 port
* Two USB 2.0 ports
* One 1/8" microphone jack
* One 1/8" headphone jack


ADI onboard audio optional audio cards:

* Creative Audio Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer
* Creative Audio Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional


Features

* Speaker and Headphone connections: Stereo to 7.1 (Line Out via three 3.5mm mini jacks)
* Flexijack: Line In / Microphone In / Digital Out / Digital I/O via shared 3.5mm mini jack
* Auxiliary Line level Input: 4-pin Molex connector

Expansion slots

* 3 PCIe x16 slots (The two blue PCIe x16 slots operate with a full compliment of 16 PCI Express lanes, while the third white slot operates with only 8)
* 1 PCIe x1 slot
* 2 PCI v2.2 slots


Operating System and Software

* Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
* Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium


Security

* Grisoft AVG Professional (1 year base for all models)
* Grisoft AVG Professional (2 year upgrade available)


Productivity

* Adobe® Reader®
* Microsoft® Office Pro 2007
* Microsoft® Office Small Business Edition 2007
* Microsoft® Office Basic 2007


Burning

* CyberLink PowerProducer
* CyberLink Power2Go


Size and weight

* Height: 598.64 mm (23.5 inches)
* Width: 266.96 mm (9 inches)
* Length: 557.23 mm (22 inches)
* Weight (full configuration): 72 pounds (32.659 kg)


lmao with even all those options how do u justify paying 8k for a prebuilt computer full of shitty programs?

[tahkis]

So Ratty, what are you planning on doing with that computer? Play Continuum and whine in TW forums?

[RATTY...]

You may be aware that it's overpriced, but you're simply looking at a slightly bigger number and going "gee, that's worth 8x the cost of something that's almost as good." (And I really doubt that you'd be able to actually perceive the difference.)

That's retarded. If you had half a clue about what you were actually buying, you could recognize that and not come off as a complete idiot.

I know what I want, and I know what I'm buying, a high end computer.

I've been reading reviews, and talked a lot with my cousin about it, master degree(most of the americans are happy if you get a bachelor, ), working for Linpro in Norway. So you guys aren't adding anything new, I know what all the components do.

Money isn't an issue for me, it obviously is for most of you, now stop calling other idiots cause you're poor.

basically an 8k tag tells me you're spending an extra 6k to be able to look at a benchmark number and go "oooooh."

That's right, high end all the way.

So Ratty, what are you planning on doing with that computer? Play Continuum and whine in TW forums?

I never whined, I just need to answer the poor americans crying.

[tahkis]

I never whined, I just need to answer the poor americans crying.

You still didn't answer the question about what are you going to do with that kind of computer.

[genocidal]

Some golden RATTY... quotes in this thread.

[a21ozcoldcup]

Money I tried to be reasonable with you, I'm not some poor American and I only came back to say you're an idiot because.....:


1. By us telling you that spending that much money is silly when you have other options means we are poor stupid Americans. I make a lot of money and own lots of expensive toys. Lots of others in the forums do the same.

2. You think a masters degree or ANY degree (for that matter) equals intelligence. I have about a million reasons to support my point but no reason to waste more time here... it's just common sense. Apparently graduate school doesn't teach people that paying 8k is silly when you can do it for half the price.

[RATTY...]

You still didn't answer the question about what are you going to do with that kind of computer.

Moving out soon together with a friend who is an civil engineer student. So I was thinking of helping him a little. So the machine is mostly going to be used for running Autocad, SolidWorks, only seen him use those the few times I've watched. And gaming with maxed graphics ofcourse.

[Ewan]

You can game with max graphics and run SolidWorks on my PC and it cost me 700gbp

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

I know what I want, and I know what I'm buying, a high end computer.

Fine, go ahead and waste money. Feel free not to actually put it to a good use.

So you guys aren't adding anything new, I know what all the components do.

Obviously not.

I'm done--there's a lot of people here who actually are trying to help you, and you're too stubborn to realize that. You and your "expert" cousin can unpack your shiny new expensive brick.

PS - I'm selling a TV if you're interested. I'm only asking for 2 billion dollars! It's a steal!

[Money]

You won't get a so called beast machine for a lousy 2¤$, but it's coming from a short little black guy from the ghetto too, so I'm not that surprised. I guess 2k$ is a lot for someone like you.

It's still a nice machine, only thing I'm curious about is the shipping price..

And it's my money, been some years since mom gave me money at all .

lmfao im sorry but you're a fucking idiot

[Money]

I know what I want, and I know what I'm buying, a high end computer.

I've been reading reviews, and talked a lot with my cousin about it, master degree(most of the americans are happy if you get a bachelor, ), working for Linpro in Norway. So you guys aren't adding anything new, I know what all the components do.

Money isn't an issue for me, it obviously is for most of you, now stop calling other idiots cause you're poor.



That's right, high end all the way.



I never whined, I just need to answer the poor americans crying.

rofl he started bragging, hey ratty bragging with lies isnt cool, and none of us care so yea if you think its cool to spend that much on that computer then you're a dumb ass, so spend it!

and then post a pic of you hugging it...so then we really know how rich you are