At last I had time to take picture of the Sentia, and it is one slick machine. The screen is so crisp, I put it right next to a Sony XBrite screen and it looked just as good. The battery lasts about 3.5 to 4 hours and I was installing lots of software, tinkering with it, and taking breaks watching some anime. They did a better job with the cooling system this time, and its got a huge 160GB hard drive for something that thin. Its around 0.63 inchs thick! I love the rubber grips on the outside of the screen since it makes it easier to grip, and the alien symbol doesnt look like it will light up but it does in a nice way. I took lots of pics just look below. I had it standing on the Xbrand 360 Adjustable Stand, and I have to say that I really like it! Its stable and extremely flexible!
Whenever I think of a hard drive I think of the matrix! Thats how the Hard Drive and items on it look! Not 0s and 1s! Its like this and if you need to then you can stop time and stop bullets in it! But that aside I know Im a person that is addicted to space! I hate coming close to running out of space and I have been going so crazy with torrents the last couple of years, and backing up like crazy that I have kept increasing the space I have constantly again and again!
At this point the of space I have in total is:
4494 GB
This is between three PCs (1 Desktop, 1 Server and 1 Media PC), and Two Laptops (New one, and work laptop). And this is also including all the External Storage attached to the PCs, and the Network Area Storage! You can never have enough space! I now have duplicates of photos, duplicates of videos, duplicates of music, duplicates of documents! Backup for the Backup! After last time Im paranoid as hell about an HD going south, so redundancy is the solution! And especially now a days $/GB is so cheap!
This is something that I noticed because of what I do. You can sign into GTalk in multiple locations, so when someone sends you a message it would show up on all the computers your signed into. So in my case the message pops up at home, then the Desktop PC in one office at work, and my laptop at the other office at work. And sometimes if your computer is acting up you might here a ding, but it wont show up except at the other places so it will be satisfied that the message went through but you didnt know. I see it sometimes happening to me, and if there is a hang-up on your end it acts normally on the other computers so even if you disconnect and the other PCs are still signed in then the person your talking to will assume your still signed in but nothing is showing up. Well I thought I would mentioned it since with other chatting programs once you sign in at one place it disconnects the other, but honestly I prefer the way GTalk is, but I find it funny when it does this!
This is one of the best pieces of software available for people who watch different kinds of media. And its completely free! I usually see people complaining that they cant get this video or that video to work on their PCs. Well this is probably the best player out there, I prefer this over VLC since its so simple and has every possible codec built within, and you can get more codecs for it if need be. I would recommend downloading the full version. They update it every one to two months so that you have every possible.
Link: K-Lite Codec Pack
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The package was supposed to have arrived on the 30th of October based on the estimated arrival of FedEx, but thank you for the amazing service from FedEx it arrived while I wasnt home on the 25th, and it cleared customs. I opened up the box, and I was happy as hell to see the Alien Symbol looking straight at me. It also included the other items that I ordered with it. After a minute I started to move the box when I realized that the god damn customs ripped the box in half on the other side, it said on the box that it was open by Kuwait customs, but I just thought that they took a look inside the big box, but no they ripped the Alienware box, and they took in the laptop out of its protective foam setting and the plastic bag that it was in. Then they shoved the laptop back into the box, I wanted to kill somebody at that point. I really was worried that the laptop was damaged since it was out of its shock absorbing setting. I know how Alienware usually pack the laptops and desktops so I wasnt worried at all about the shipping, but after what I saw customs did I was going to go nuts. I wanted to kill somebody!
So I started the laptop up, and there was the usual Windows startup and setting it up like usual. And after going through a few things, I was happy that it was working extremely smoothly! No problems! I want to put a curse on those customs guys! They could have just x-rayed the damn thing and found out what they wanted!
I have to say that I didnt know about this previously or else I would have ordered it a long time ago. I have a PC hooked up to the my Sony LCD, but it only has an RGB connection so I use an adapter to connect with the DVI connector. The quality is pretty good but I wish it could be better. I was roaming through amazon and I found that Monster Cables made a DVI to HDMI connection. When I found it I automatically ordered it, and I got it with my initial Amazon packages. Since then I have been slow to hook it up since I didnt feel like going through all the wiring. But when I did go through all the effort I have to say I should have done it sooner. The anime, movies, and tv episodes look so much better on HDMI, made a huge difference and I recommend this to everyone! Its worth every penny!
If your looking to rip dvds or cds that have different types of encoding this has been working great for me. If I want to put a mix together and pick a couple of songs from a cd then its my damn choice! I dont have to listen to the whole damn cd every time! And then if you want to rip a dvd to hard drive to do with it as you please then this piece of software is the best thing for you. And they keep updating it for any company that comes with a new type of encryption for DVDs or CDs. It has worked great with me so I recommend people who want to do this type of thing. Its worth the $39.00. If it could do everything then I would give it a full rating, but for now it works great.
Link: SlySoft
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The package arrived at my friends place on the 20th of October. So after a day of work he took the laptop and the other accessories to postal annex. And he had it sent yesterday, so its going to take a week to get here. Thats the fastest there is since its a large box because of all the padding. It will arrive here on the 30th of October which at least the customs is open. I will really be looking forward to opening it up.
Im adding this to my new Buffalo Router that I havent even opened yet. Its fantastic that I got all the pieces together. This way I can see how much better the connection will be across the house. I really want to get an outside antenna but that would require some drilling. I dont think they would be too happy about my drilling throug the window frame or wall just to increase the signal across the house! But if this antenna works out then I might try to figure out how I can get a high dBi antenna for the exterior so I can get the signal all the way to the basement. This is requiring a lot of testing and I feel like a complete nerd, and Im looking forward to it!
Useful Extentions which have worked great for me.
These extentions make firefox the best browser in the world to use! DownThemAll is for when I want to download all the pictures on a website Im on one go! Google Preview lets you see a preview of the page in google search. Gmail Space lets you use your gmail as a online storage! Pretty smart! TabMixPlus gives your tabs everything you might want in tabs, and it saves all your sessions so just in case it crashes and has lots of useful tools for use with your tabs! Video Downloader lets you download google video, you tube, or any other online video content provider. Download Status Bar is the best thing I found, since before the Download Window for Firefox would freeze my window or slow it down immensely, but now its like nothing it being affected, I love it! AdBlock Plus was a huge improvement when it comes to blocking unwanted pop-ups!
With all these extentions you customize firefox to your liking!