Official 1558j winning thread

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:28 pm

I want to say thanks for everything!!

The winner will have to purchase a processor, memory, hard drive, and a wifi card to be able to use the notebook. The winner of the notebook is also required to post photos of the notebook once it is built or Legit Reviews will never do a contest like this again. The winner of this notebook will love it!

For those asking or thinking about asking, I appreciate your interest, but no i am not going to sell it. Legit reviews asks to build on the lappy and write reviews on it and i am going to do just that to help them out. Its the least i can do for them for giving away a 600$ prize. Besides i need a laptop!

As i get parts i will post and keep yall up to date (or if yall want i can wait till everything is in and then post pics). All i can say is I am excited!!

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:31 pm

post step-by-step pics Dragon, I'm pretty sure the majority of the forum would appreciate it, just to see how the build is coming along

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:40 pm

Will do capn'!!

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:41 pm

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:55 pm

is this the right wifi card for it?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834997702

and can i find it cheaper anywhere else?

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:05 pm

Yes that will work

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:43 am

nice card there Mr. Cooler, lol.

now, as far as finding it cheaper, I would look on Zipzoomfly or somewhere like that as Newegg doesn't have it right now. I'll be considering that card myself if the chassis I get to build my whitebook doesn't have a wireless card.

btw, on a totally unrelated note: got my 1 GB PNY Attache flash drive home today, and I must say even over USB 1.1, it saves information faster than a floppy ever could, and stores a hell of a lot more, so a good consideration for portability.....thank God for massive advances in portable storage

just felt like sharing that with everyone

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:10 am

thumb drives are the S***. Next to google, by far away, if that makes sinse?!?!? LOL

i cant find them anywhere on zipzoomfly same with the sata hard drives

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:15 am

well, you know the egg has them, right? That's where I got my flash drive...hell, it proved useful today for sure, as my printer decided it didn't want to feed paper and had to backup crucial assignments that were due today, lol. same with SATA HDD's, they got em there too

Kerii · Post by **Kerii** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:46 am

DragonCooler wrote:is this the right wifi card for it?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834997702

and can i find it cheaper anywhere else?

Any of these will work I believe: link

The ASUS one with WPA2 looks nice.

As for SATA notebook drives: link or link (look for the Momentus models)

I don't understand the point though, cabling is a non-issue in notebooks, and there's no real performance advantage to SATA for 5400PRM drives, so I see no reason to pay more for SATA drives.

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:06 pm

oh.....well ummmm, i think that is all the lappy takes. oh well. LOL What about 7200rpm sata? do they make them?

Kerii · Post by **Kerii** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:18 pm

Seriously? No IDE?

Well... I guess you could go for these:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... e=100524-4
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... e=100519-4

There's also these, but they're all out of stock:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... ode=101598
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... ode=101520

What exactly do you need a 7200RPM drive for anyway?
Not gonna try to game on that with the Intel graphics are ya?

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:37 pm

oh no, i just want fast boot and shutdown and stuff. no gaming at all, i have a desktop that will do that. besides, college is some serious stuff

and i cant find the specs on the laptop since they changed it at aopens website, so i dont know if it is sata only.

but thank you for those links, i might just get a 7200rpm instead of 5400, better performance!

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:57 pm

The AOpen 1558 takes PATA only I'm leaving to ship the winners prizes now.

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:03 pm

it does? i thought i read it was SATA. well ok. I will take a look when it gets here. There are instructions with it right? LOL

Bal`thzar · Post by **Bal`thzar** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:41 pm

Don't go with the intel wireless you can do better and cheaper on Ebay I will hit you off with some cards for optionis but Intel is notoriously fickle

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:22 pm

The advantage of the intel cards is the power saving that goes with centreno. because the cpu, chipset, and wireless card are all intel they are able to communicate and save on power.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:17 pm

nope they don't come with instructions on how to build them! Thats why we published the how to articles!

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:36 pm

Apoptosis wrote:nope they don't come with instructions on how to build them! Thats why we published the how to articles!

alright!! looks like some fun learning in the near future!

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:38 pm

the how-to's are in-depth though, so I don't think you'll have any problems when you go to build it....just install the HDD, WNIC, processor, and memory....nothing to it, lol