Evening O'Reading

April 16, 2009 6:00 PM

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What do you want--blood? Well I'm sorry, because all you're getting is an assortment of news items and mild ramblings. Sadly my quest for cephalopod representation has thus far gone ignore by the video games industry, but rest assured I shan't rest until the betantacled can at long last the raise their squishy appengades to the sky in victory, having earned the right to be shot indiscriminantly by roving bastard adventurers.

The not resting part certainly is true, at least. It's Thursday April 16--this is the news:

Bethesda to squish Interplay's Fallout MMO.
The Internet will have a field day with the Sims 3 movie maker.
$250 The Beatles: Rock Band bundle revealed.
Yes, Borderlands' new art style is lovely.
Time Warner reconsider bandwidth caps.
F.E.A.R. 2 Toy Soldiers delight Faylor.
22 minutes of Starcraft 2 gameplay video.

Alice O'Connor

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bipolar

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April 16, 2009 6:13 PM

What would be a fair price to sell this laptop for:

17" 1920x1200 display
4 gb ram
9800m GTS
blu ray player
C2D @ 2.5 ghz
wireless n
xp home
- [deleted] 1826297255
  
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  April 16, 2009 6:15 PM
  
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- Sailor of Fortune
  
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  April 16, 2009 6:15 PM
  
  Equivalent new desktop replacements laptops, that gateway one comes to mind but it doesn't have BR, goes for $1300.
  
  I think $850 tops.
  - [deleted] 1826297255
    
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    April 16, 2009 6:16 PM
    
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    - Sailor of Fortune
      
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      April 16, 2009 6:19 PM
      
      Well there's the obligatory Shacker discount of $350 and a free blow job.
      - massdev
        
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        April 16, 2009 6:22 PM
        
        biploar has to give 350 off and a bj, thats some discount...
- Luminair
  
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  April 16, 2009 6:20 PM
  
  999
- locater16
  
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  April 16, 2009 6:26 PM
  
  I'll get you a severed zebra penis, here there's big money in that if you find the right buyer
- bipolar
  
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  April 16, 2009 6:38 PM
  
  Hrm, I was thinking more along the lines of $1000-1100. It has a much higher res then the Gateway, has blu ray, and is built by a better manufacturer (Sager), plus it has 1.5 years of the warranty left (.5 years from Sager, additional year from the reseller).
  - famine101
    
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    April 16, 2009 6:48 PM
    
    You can probably sell it near retail, then.
    
    I always find people to buy laptops at about 80%+ of retail for some reason.
    - DinK
      
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      April 17, 2009 6:02 AM
      
      Well 80% of the $1300 mentioned above (though that's for a slightly inferior laptop) is right in the price range he mentioned there.
- boomstickah
  
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  April 16, 2009 6:41 PM
  
  4 gb + xp home makes no sense to me
  - bipolar
    
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    April 16, 2009 6:43 PM
    
    Easy future upgradability to Windows 7.
    - boomstickah
      
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      April 17, 2009 6:04 AM
      
      vista 64 is a wonderful os, about as much of an upgrade to w7 as between the major OSX releases.
      - boomstickah
        
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        April 17, 2009 6:04 AM
        
        w7 is as much of an upgrade rather.
  - wendigo
    
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    April 16, 2009 7:37 PM
    
    even if you only see 3.25gb of it, it beats 2gb
- baconisgod
  
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  April 16, 2009 6:54 PM
  
  $750 or so
- Melll
  
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  April 16, 2009 6:59 PM
  
  I want that laptop. Thats how much its worth :(
- [deleted] 1737240303
  
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  April 16, 2009 7:08 PM
  
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- [deleted] 573435259
  
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  April 17, 2009 5:39 AM
  
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- maulla
  
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  April 17, 2009 5:40 AM
  
  Id say about a grand. It amazes me that 2 years ago gaming laptops were over double the price
- doomed
  
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  April 17, 2009 6:15 AM
  
  brand ?