Thinking of buying a new laptop

[Vricklund]

Congratulations. Always nice with a new piece of technology around the house. And they smell better than any baby.

I too was impressed by the new LED screen - so thin and so crisp! When the technology hits the budget range TV's I guess that's it for my trusty CRT telly.

[Alatriste]

This borders fetishism, but I too love how electronic devices smell when shiny and new... 

[garbon]

[Josquius]

I got a very neat, smallish CULV based laptop, just like the one Vricklund wrote about. Acer Timeline 1810TZ. A SU 4100 processor which performs very similar to SU 7300. Nice looks too:

Thats a pretty machine.
A little too pretty...I don't trust it.

[DontSayBanana]

Triste, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.  I'm using a Toshiba Satellite with an Athlon XP 64 QL-65 at 2.1GHz, 3GB of RAM, and a Radeon 3100 IGP, and so far, it's handled my gaming needs suitably: Sims 3 runs without any major lag, as does Star Trek Online; a machine with your spec will pretty much run everything short of Crysis.

[Alatriste]

Time will tell... For the moment I'm impressed by the easiness of connecting the laptop to the TV set trough HDMI. I just plugged the cable and my desktop appeared on the 40" screen, as simple as that. Flawless. 

I'm writing this on a cordless keyboard and the only difficulty I have found is, the layout is a bit different and I keep hitting Enter when I want to hit Del, and Del when I want to hit End! Next step, some movie and some game... Fallout 3, perhaps.