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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (74029)	2/7/2011 9:01:01 PM
From: Sexton O Blake	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

So your base $ was about $1219.99 or so? Yeah the extra 8% is a bit. I know they want me to pay $1200 but I'd rather get it for $1200 taxes in (13%). I liked the 1080p mostly because the dots are so small that if they fail (as one did) you would never notice it. Text is smaller but you can always increase that size. I have to laugh at the experience index maximum is not 5, or 6 but instead 5.9. What a crock of seagulls. Well that was before - with my Vista. And maybe yours is 6.9 but apparently the highest now is 7.9. I happened to look at all the PCs at Costco and all of them pretty much sucked wind - all at 5 or below. The problem is they use the lowest scoring item as the number. As you see your Toshiba had a crappy graphics card. However, when buying online, how would you ever know? I would like to see companies like Dell post those numbers. I think it would prove to be a better sell job - maybe allow use to +/- options to get the numbers to be the way we want them to be. I know they won't and technically it is difficult since half way in the build of the XPS they may either (a) upgrade the video card and/or (b) The video maker might have a Rev2 card for the same cost but be a bit faster. So ... you bitched about the bilingual and have talked with your money by buying a Dell instead of another Toshiba. You should continue that thought and email Acer, HP and Asus and tell them your reasoning. Though you may convince people here (I am not, since the keyboard was why I bot Dell a couple of years ago in the first place) - I think telling the manufacturers is important - to show them we disagree with their stance and will go elsewhere. I emailed HP/ACER already. Great stuff. When do you get it? Would like some speed feedback from you (cuz we know you will post a great blog about it) -- I am interested in "how fast does it take to power up and get to a screen from login, in say power saver mode v. balanced v. full power"). In the office (Linux server) they went from I think P4 to i5 or i7. An online backup went from about 6:00m to 1:24m. The Sata III drives helped. Thanks Cheeks. B