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hello!!! this forum needs a wakeup lol

just saw something interesting and wanted to post for all the x1000 users still out there...my X is going on 4 years strong!!!

to celebrate a strong 4 years, i just bought an Antec notebook cooler. got it all setup and running nicely and it dropped the temperature of my hitachi 72k60 from 48C to 35C on low speed...i'm sure at high speed it would be even lower. as great as that is, that is not why i'm posting.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834999850

so as i'm filling in the mail in rebate form, i turn the box around to cut out the UPC. to my surprise, i notice a very familiar picture on the box: they have a picture of the X1000 as demonstration model!!! you can even read presario x1000 on the lcd...

i think it's great that as this cooler is copyright 2005 and antec could have picked any random notebook for picture purposes but they went with the X (and it still looks damn sexy on the picture) i'm really glad i went with this laptop instead of a random dell dimension 4 years ago...

here's to another 4 years!

I bought my X in Oct2003..was my first laptop and i've been using it every day since then. I trekked it with me daily to school for 2 years and the last 1.5 year it's been sitting mostly on my desk playing RTCW:ET. I've had 2 HW issues...I had the dreaded video card dying but luckily it happened to me in my 11th month of warranty so it was fixed without me paying a dime! Also just a few days ago my Hitachi 7K60 HD died 2.5 years since i bought it and that will be sent for replacement under warranty. I didn't think a compaq would last this long...

Just curious as to how many people are still actively using their X1000 as their primary system! Reply with how long you have owned it plus any HW probs that you have had along the way.

thanks for the headsup about centrino hardware control, great little program that is FREE