[QUOTE="Chopmo81"]

Honestly man, I doubt you'll ever have a problem. If it's in the open you'll most likely be fine.

racastro65

true..dont move it while a game is playing and thats it...mine has never broken and once it was on for more tha 12 hours (burnout revenge)...and nothing happened...

open area and youll be fine

Please. One time when I had a bunch of free time my Xbox ran the most part of the time between Friday evening and Sunday night. I know it was on for well over 20 hours during that time. These people are just paranoid.

I dunno about the off and on thing but I can offer a few helpful hints. Keep it in a well ventialted area, somewhere its cool and not to humid. Dont play the thing for 10 hours straight,take a break in between. Make sure it was air flow from all sides, nothing blocking any parts of it. NEVER move the system while a game is in it, unless you hate that game, I know thats irrelevant to the systems quality but still something not to do.Mikey289

Why? My Xbox runs for over 10 hours on most nights and it hasn't broken.

I bought Crackdown for Crackdown. The Halo 3 beta was a useless waste of disk space. I played the beta and after the first match started, it reminded me of just how boring Halo 2 was.

So, I put the beta down after a few boring matches and returned to Crackdown.

By the way, Crackdown is one of my favorite games of all time because of how fun it was to have a game that hap basic platforming elements that are missing from platformers.

[QUOTE="Light_Destroyer"]Does anyone else have an opinion?My_name_a_Borat

Yep. Get a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo.

I recently got myself an Acer notebook with a Core 2 Duo T5300 chip (2 gigs of RAM, 120GB HDD,1.73GHz, 2MB cache) for only $800 Canadian.

Beats the hell out of that AMD chip.

I looked up the comparisons for the core and turion processors and the comparisons always said that the turions were better. If they didn't outperform the core, they made up for it in their pricing, cool temperatures, and less power drain.

I forgot to mention that this is Compaq v6000, and that graphics card is the only option.

I would add another gb of ram but it adds $175 to my total cost.

I'm trying to build a laptop for college. I'm trying to build it to the point where if I won't have an unusable heap of plastic on my back, but I won't have to spend a lot to get a laptop that should keep up with what I'm going to be doing until I get a job where it will need stronger specs.

I will be majoring in Computer Science and Engineering with a little Accounting/Business or Economics/Finance so I might need it for those classes in two years. But for the first years I will basically use it for word processing, internet, watch videos, and I might play some older games like Half-Life 2 and games that were made before that, but nothing after that.

One last question, would it be worth the money to invest in Lightscribe, or is it just a waste of time? Now......the specs.

Operating Sytem: Microsoft Vista Basic (The college gives Ultimate away for free)

Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core TL-56 (1.8 GHz/1 MB)

Memory: 1 Gig DDR2

Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 w/ Productivity Ports

Finish: HP Imprint with Microphone and Quickplay

Networking: 802.11b/g WLAN

Hard Drive: 80 gigs 5400

Primary Drive: Super Multi 8X DVD+/-R/RW

Battery: High Capacity 6 cell lithium Ion

Laptop Price = $706.15

HP Noise Canceling Head Phones $60

HP Deskjet F380 All-in-one = $80 and a $80 rebate

Total Price with tax = $972.42

I didn't add the accidental coverage for to go with the 1 year warranty because it was an extra $100. Should I get it anyway? It already comes with a basic warranty.