Got my new laptop!! Pretty sweet.
 

Yep, so I got it from Costco and it showed up in 3 days after i ordered it. It was refurbished but man it was a good deal, and the thing is AWESOME. Im installing counter-strike source on er' right now. :p

Anyway the specs are:
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-50 at 1.6GHz
2 x 256KB L2 cache
1GB DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 512MB)
100GB (5,400 RPM) SATA hard drive
8x DVD±RW drive with Double Layer Support
14.1" WXGA BrightView widescreen display
NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 6150 graphics (128mb shared)
Wireless...
Altec Lansing speakers (pretty good 4 a latptop)
5 in 1 media card center or whatever :p
and a whole bunch of other goodies like s-video and stuff

Anywho, this thing weight 5.4 lbs and is sooo sleek and small that i love it. All my friends got the big badass laptops, but this guy is small and FAST. I already have a badass desktop so I just wanted a travel/class laptop.

Anyway, not bad for $650. If anyone else is looking for a laptop, i would suggest this one!

www.costco.com and its under refurbished laptops.

Coolest thing I've bought since my Z28. :D

Tip of improving your performance (since you've got a gigabyte of RAM):

1. Right click on My Computer and click Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab at the top of the window.
3. Under Performance, click Settings.
4. Click the Advanced tab.
5. Under Virtual Memory, click Change.
6. Select your hard drive (C: usually), then select No paging file, then click Sset. Click OK, then close out of all the property pages you've opened, and give the laptop a restart.

The Operating system now forces all programs to use the physical memory (RAM) instead of creating a (slow) page file on the hard drive. With a gigabyte of RAM at your disposal, you'll have no problem. If you do run into issues (which you shouldn't), you can just restart and change the setting back to a 512 MB page file on the C drive.

I bought a laptop that I can take to class with me and its been a great using it in class and when I have no class...etc...etc...love it.

Wish it would be awsome for games like my home pc.

cool man....looks like a good deal

nice bro

Weird, I almost bought one today.

But congrats on the good deal for the good specs.

Thanks for all the comments guys. I'm lovin it so far.

Wow.. Cool. I heard something about how my graphics card sometimes steals from the system RAM to make it work better (sorry im not sure exactly what im talking about), would this pose as a problem to what you talking about? Otherwise that sounds like an awesome thing to do.

What that means is that some of your memory "devoted" for graphics is shared to give you that 128.. So its taking some of your physical memory to give you that 128 basically. But thats seperate from your page file if thats what youre asking.

hey sounds cool i wish i had a top

****, I didn't see "SHARED" over there.

Okay, re-enable the page file, set it at 512 MB. :banghead:

1024 - 128 = 896 MB, and I'd prefer you have at least a full gig devoted to system resources before disabling the page file.

I brought a gateway laptop for christmas off the tv show called hsn and i only spent 800..not to mention I got the sprint broadband card free for buying through hsn .

Dang. I didn't switch it yet, but I wanted to. I thought I remembered it saying 64 dedicated 64 shared, but I might be wrong. If I was to be sure about that, would that be okay?

Also, if I upgraded to 2GB ram, i could easily do that optimization right?

Cool!

check on PNY.com/configurator. Search your model and see what you can expand to. You only have 2 slots, and you have 2 512s in there, so youd have to buy 2 new gigs if your computer even supports that high.. It should, but id make sure.

IF you are able to upgrade to 2GB (which I would think so, that laptop seems fairly new), you can then do what I've suggested.

I've got a Toshiba Satellite P30 3.06GHz with 2 gigs of DDR2, and the swap file disable made a big difference. Less hard drive activity = faster.