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Offline LaJon

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #220 on: April 25, 2010, 10:22:29 PM »
Just Cause 2



Western Digital Elements 2TB External HD



Windows 7 Secrets



Just Cause 2 is amazingly fun and addictive, the HD is for backup, and the book is really informative.  I Listen to Paul Thurrott's "Windows Weekly" podcast every week over at TWiT, and he's the god-damned man.  :cow:

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #221 on: May 01, 2010, 08:26:46 PM »
Bought me a Archos 5 Internet Tablet: http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_5it/index.html?country=us&lang=en 32GB version.



Thin, lightweight (182g) and a nice 800x480 5" screen.
Mainly for music playing and some video, but as its android: internet browsing looks not to bad either.

One problem with the video: for AC3 (used a lot in  720p MKV's) I would need to by the HD package... not going to happen now.
Seems it can do dual OS (e.g. there is a Linux distrbution also) might try that just for kicks.

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #222 on: July 20, 2010, 12:04:14 AM »
CROSS-POSTING

Finally got myself a router.

Setting it up was a bit of a pain in the ass, I have to say. Turns out I had to tweak the one of the settings on my modem first to set it to bridge mode, otherwise the router wouldn't work at all.

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #223 on: July 28, 2010, 11:08:29 AM »
First original in my life lol. Damn around RM248 @ 77.65USD -_-;;




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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #224 on: September 22, 2010, 03:41:49 PM »
Bought a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical after my Logitech G3 finally died.  Used to have one of these back in the day, and it was only $15 on Newegg, and it'a fantastic.


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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #225 on: October 13, 2010, 04:06:09 PM »
Finally making the switch from traditional HDD to an SSD.  Bought an OCZ Agility 2 60GB from Newegg.



Should be getting here tomorrow.    :cow:

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #226 on: October 23, 2010, 07:53:11 PM »
Doing an upgrade for my Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop I got a couple years back.  Has discreet graphics, Intel Core 2 duo and all that, so it's not that bad.  Just that it only has 2GB of RAM.

Now: 2x1GB DDR2 333Mhz CAS Latency 5
After: 2x2GB DDR2 667Mhz CAS Latency 4

Twice the memory and twice the speed.  Should help a lot, cause I'd say that's the one weak point of the laptop for most things.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231153

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #227 on: October 30, 2010, 01:01:24 AM »
Got this earlier this week.
Got myself a new mouse. Buttons on the old one were getting twiggy (sometimes unresponsive, other times uber sensitive).

Logitech M500


My reason for getting a corded mouse instead of a cordless one was simple, since I was buying this for my desktop rig at home, I didn't need it to be portable. Added benefit is that I don't have to waste money buying batteries the way that you have to with cordless mice.



This one's from today.
Bought a new t-shirt on eBay, it arrived today.  There should be a couple of people here who'd get the reference. :P



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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #228 on: November 04, 2010, 04:03:38 PM »
Just bought two new 2TB hard drives from Newegg.  They were only $90 each thanks to a promo special that was going on earlier this week.  Besides being twice the capacity of the drives I have now, they're also about 40% faster on read/writes.

Samsung Spinpoint F4 HD204UI

But now I have to spent hours transferring everything over to them.  Just in the nick of time though, cause both of my 1TB drives were less than 100GB from being full.

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #229 on: November 05, 2010, 06:53:55 PM »
Bought me a Samsung Galaxy Tab with 3G:



http://www.samsung.com/uk/galaxytab/?pid=uk_subbanner1_galaxy_tab_29102010

Great transportability: size (7") and weight (380gr) as I like it.

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #230 on: November 28, 2010, 12:26:50 PM »
For the wife..

Acer Aspire One 752

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #231 on: June 04, 2011, 03:32:24 PM »
Finally decided to make the plunge and upgrade my video card.  It's the only thing in my system that I could say is a bit behind the times

Current: MSI N275GTX Lightning GeForce GTX 275 (Link)
New: MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III GeForce GTX 570 (Link)


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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #232 on: June 04, 2011, 06:30:38 PM »
Just keeping it simple, scored me a ASUS Eee Transformer (16GB and without the keyboard for now):



Lets see if this can replace a small laptop (if I finally get my hands on the keyboard part) remote desktop is really the only reason I still use a laptop.

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #233 on: December 01, 2011, 06:48:56 PM »

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #235 on: December 03, 2011, 12:48:27 PM »
Got me a wireless keyboard/mouse combo that was on sale last weekend.

Even though I prefer recent Microsoft keyboards, the one I really wanted was only available in an expensive bundle and I couldn't pass up a good deal, plus the Logitech unifying receiver was too attractive to ignore considering the trackball mouse I want.

I actually bought that trackball mouse first, but upon deciding to get this bundle I chose to give the included mouse a try for a while and returned the trackball with plans to come back to it later should a better deal come along.
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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #236 on: December 06, 2011, 07:28:52 AM »
Got me a wireless keyboard/mouse combo that was on sale last weekend.

Even though I prefer recent Microsoft keyboards, the one I really wanted was only available in an expensive bundle and I couldn't pass up a good deal, plus the Logitech unifying receiver was too attractive to ignore considering the trackball mouse I want.

I actually bought that trackball mouse first, but upon deciding to get this bundle I chose to give the included mouse a try for a while and returned the trackball with plans to come back to it later should a better deal come along.

Great choice for a keyboard.  I have that same keyboard except it's on a USB cable (it was actually one of the last ones they had in stock before they stuck with selling the wireless version).  I would say that my most recent purchase was back in March when I replaced my somewhat dead Best Data Radeon HD 5770 (it can't survive a minute of 3D activities like gaming and benchmarking without major graphics corruption) with an MSI Radeon HD 6870 Twin Frozr II.  It's a good thing I bought this card since my Viewsonic VX1935wm monitor had died after 4.5 years and was given one of my brother's Acer H233H monitors (needed an extra power to render 1080p).  After seeing some of the memory stick deals from Black Friday, I plan to get myself a pair of 4 GB sticks if the prices are still good (I wouldn't have to worry about out-of-stock issues or a huge line of people).
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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #237 on: March 12, 2012, 05:59:04 AM »
I just bought a PSP, for so long time I want to play it and now I can finally play it  :heart:

also bought a HG RX-0 NT-D + Head display base, lol :lol:

btw when is the price of HDD going down? it's so awful how expensive HDD these days :(

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #238 on: March 21, 2012, 06:23:07 AM »
^ Hopefully soon. I need a new HDD :(

I did just buy this though
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211573
32 gb flashdrive - usb 3.0
Very useful for transferring files :D

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Re: Post the latest Geek/Nerd stuff that you bought
« Reply #239 on: April 15, 2012, 11:45:01 PM »
Even though it's been like 3 months since I've bought, a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus running Honeycomb. It's now my favorite electronic to use before I go to bed.

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