New Rig

Pulled off an amazing “need case” at work for this sweet, sweet mobile gaming (and computing) powerhouse:

Delicious and Nutritious?

So far it has been wonderful, except for the fact that  the case is warped. In certain situations it moves corner to corner when typing and that is incredibly annoying. Gaming wise it has performed as expected, but those dual fans really kick up a lot of noise to keep it cool while under load.

I also dislike the keyboard lighting. For me so far it seems to make the keys look “fuzzy”, if that makes sense as a descriptor. I am curious if when they send the replacement (which they are) if the warped casing has anything to do with that, and also distracting when not a single, pale colour. Maybe my eyes are going in my old age. Who wants rainbow lighting moving around your keyboard anyway? And why won’t those kids get off my lawn *shakes fist*.

It seems to run EQ just fine, at least. (yes: obvious sarcasm)

Sure, I understand you can get 2x the desktop rig for the same price but I don’t need to be on the bleeding edge and I like being able to game in different parts of my house, and also on the road (which I travel for work). So it is a win win. Plus, the IT department knows I put a lot of visual and computation strain on my computers with the various data-sets I run and this will mean less time alt tabbing and waiting for a result and more time sending results. So far so good. I can think of a couple other excuses – subtle ‘nods’ from gamers when they see the snake logo light up in a business meeting and all the nerd-cred that goes along with that, things of that nature. I think I might be cool again. Is the word ‘cool’ making a comeback?

I used to lug around old Asus laptop gaming machines with 17 inch monitors and 8-10 lbs of glory so this has been a really nice, thin change.