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What's on your Ultimate Geek Christmas List?

Post by treehead » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:04 pm

DISCLAIMER: this post is not meant to distort The Meaning of Christmas, it's simply a topic for discussion.

;ok, so you might not get everything on your list like you hoped you would when you were a kid, but if money was no object, what would be the Top 10 items on your Ultimate Geek Christmas List? i saw den guru's holiday buyer's guide and thought i'd see what's on everyone's wishlist....

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Post by jrtcs » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:11 pm

A copy of Windows XP for my eMachine so I can use AOL!

April Fools! Oh wait, it's November!
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Post by snarkout » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:00 pm

Fantasy:
A dual xeon mobo w/ procs.
A sweetass hi-res widescreen LCD.
A long life UPS.

Realistic:
Power strips.
A new office chair.
Optical media.
Optical media sleeves.
Some kinda thinkgeek crap.

That's more or less it.

EDIT: Oh crap! I almost forgot to ask for a super sweet multimedia keyboard.
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Post by CptnObvious999 » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:31 pm

what I really want: :roll:
20" LCD Display
crazy good graphics card
water cooling system (or liquid nitrogen cooling :wink: )
money for a Nintendo Revolution and games

Ill be getting:
An iAudio X5L 30GB from NewEgg (~$300)
A case and Car Charger/FM Transmitter (although I doubt Ill need the charger unless I leave it running for two days or its playing video)
Maybe a game or two for my Nintendo DS
New keyboard
Money if left over (doubtfull)[/list]
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Post by Patrick » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:40 pm

A new laptop with no Windows. Maybe some dvd's. I'm not holding my breath for the laptop.
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same page as snarkout

Post by jsusanka » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:38 am

Fantasy:
A dual amd64 mobo w/ procs with at least 2 (prefer 4) gig of memory.
A sweetass BIG hi-res widescreen LCD.
Big Big Big Hard drives.
upgraded gigabit network in my house.

Realistic

some kind of linux tech book
some kind of sci-fi book
somd kind of spy/adventure book

something hand made from my 7 year old daughter.
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Post by Tsuroerusu » Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:07 pm

A dual dual-core CPU 2,6 Opteron workstation with 7800 GTX SLi, SATAII, 14 x 400 GB harddrives, 16 GB memory :wink:

Nintendo DS with the Electroplankton music software.


Spider-Man 2 and Ultimate Spider-Man for the GameCube

Old NES games: The Legend of Zelda 1 and 2, Super Mario Bros. 2

A comfortable headset.

Dell's 24" widescreen LCD monitor.

Zepto (Danish laptop maker) laptop (Pentium M 2,xx GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 RPM harddrive)

100 mbit fiber internet connection

One of IBM's POWER servers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

If I come up with more I'll update my post :wink:
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hmm...

Post by treehead » Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:26 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote:A dual dual-core CPU 2,6 Opteron workstation with 7800 GTX SLi, SATAII, 14 x 400 GB harddrives, 16 GB memory :wink:
;what's the price tag on that puppy?!
Tsuroerusu wrote:Zepto (Danish laptop maker) laptop (Pentium M 2,xx GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 RPM harddrive)
;link?

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Re: hmm...

Post by Tsuroerusu » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:48 am

treehead wrote:;what's the price tag on that puppy?!
Oh I don't know, just a little over 13000 dollars or something. :P

Tsuroerusu wrote:Zepto (Danish laptop maker) laptop (Pentium M 2,xx GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 RPM harddrive)
http://www.zepto.dk/Default.aspx?page=N ... I8tlvXBtmA
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Re: hmm...

Post by treehead » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:56 am

Tsuroerusu wrote:Zepto (Danish laptop maker) laptop (Pentium M 2,xx GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 RPM harddrive)
http://www.zepto.dk/Default.aspx?page=N ... I8tlvXBtmA[/quote]

;so how did you find out about zepto? are you danish? (if you are, your english is awesome)

;those laptops look pretty good, but after buying a laptop with a UXGA LCD, i have to say i'm never going back. any LCD from now on is going to be UXGA or WUXGA or better.

;actually, i think i'd prefer HXGA. :D

;the other thing i noticed about the linux certified laptops is that they have a model with a full sized keyboard with a number pad. it's a beast, but hey-- it's a "unix workstation replacement."

;has anyone bought on of these laptops? curious...

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Post by Gomer_X » Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:05 am

I've got only 1 request:

1 hour a day to spend hacking/programming/whatever on the computers without any complaints form my wife.

Everything else I need I have. :D
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Post by Patrick » Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:08 am

Gomer_X wrote:I've got only 1 request:

1 hour a day to spend hacking/programming/whatever on the computers without any complaints form my wife.

Everything else I need I have. :D
I'll take that as well. Welcome to married life! :)
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Re: hmm...

Post by Tsuroerusu » Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:00 pm

treehead wrote:
Tsuroerusu wrote:Zepto (Danish laptop maker) laptop (Pentium M 2,xx GHz, 2 GB RAM, 100 GB 7200 RPM harddrive)
http://www.zepto.dk/Default.aspx?page=N ... I8tlvXBtmA
;so how did you find out about zepto? are you danish? (if you are, your english is awesome)

;those laptops look pretty good, but after buying a laptop with a UXGA LCD, i have to say i'm never going back. any LCD from now on is going to be UXGA or WUXGA or better.

;actually, i think i'd prefer HXGA. :D

;the other thing i noticed about the linux certified laptops is that they have a model with a full sized keyboard with a number pad. it's a beast, but hey-- it's a "unix workstation replacement."

;has anyone bought on of these laptops? curious...

;treehead[/quote]
Yep I'm danish, thanks for your nice words about my english, I actually began learning it myself when I was in third grade (Started to have english in school at fourth grade) by just using the "hacker" way of doing things :wink:

My sister has a Zepto laptop, acutally the one I linked to, and it's great, I've run KNOPPIX and WHAX on it several times to test how well it works with Linux (My sister wants Sims 2 and wants "the cool", so she says, MSN Messenger features so she wants Windows, I look forward to the days she's riddled with spyware) and it's great, I've tested Linux on several Dothan and Sonoma Centrino laptops, and everything works great, I've not tested the modem though :P
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Re: hmm...

Post by treehead » Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:02 pm

Tsuroerusu wrote:...and everything works great, I've not tested the modem though :P
;modem? what's a modem?

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Re: hmm...

Post by Tsuroerusu » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:03 pm

treehead wrote:
Tsuroerusu wrote:...and everything works great, I've not tested the modem though :P
;modem? what's a modem?

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Yeah, no ones uses that stuff anymore right? :wink:

I've tested KNOPPIX, WHAX (Great for cracking wireless networks), SUSE and Mandriva on laptops, all worked great.

What I do like about Mandriva is that it autodetects the graphics card and install the apropiate driver during the installation and sets up Xorg automaticly, kudos to Mandriva on that one.

SUSE is the one I've found to work the best on latops, because it sets up a lot of the power management and wireless stuff out of the box.

But in general I've found Centrino laptops to be wonderful with Linux, I've never run into a problem don't know why everyone is so up in arms about it, just get a ThinkPad or something similar with a Centrino wireless card and either an Intel, ATi or NVIDIA graphics card. I say get a laptop with a decent graphics card, because I like being ready to take advantage of a lot of the eye candy coming in KDE 4.0.
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