Anyway, I had to spend my Kindle money that I was going to use to buy for myself for Christmas to get a new power supply which will be here tomorrow because I have no warranty now.

I guess I would say don’t buy from Vigor Gaming, but since they don’t exist any longer, no worries, you can’t.

I still have to moderate comments at the moment. I don’t totally trust everyone.

Looks like it works to me. It does NOT work in the Developer Version of Google Chrome, however. Not sure why. But it seems to work in IE and Firefox.

Intel Core i5 @ 2.66ghz w/8M cache
Vigor’s Paladin II Antec Case with Vigor’s famous ventilation/cooling options.
550 Watt PSU
MSI P5-5M-GD-45 Motherboard
8GB of Kingston 1333mhz ram.
1TB Hitachi SATA II hard drive
ATI Radeon HD5850 1GB @725Mhz Video Card
LG GGC-H20LK SATA Blu-ray/HD-DVD-ROM & 16x DVD+rw
7.1 onboard sound.
Windows 7 Premium 64 bit.

With my diligence at finding killer discount codes, this will set me back $1316 shipped.

Edit Updates:
January 11 – Ordered the PC from Vigor Gaming.
January 12 – Vigor called and told me my address did not match with Mastercard. Interesting because I just got the card in June and I most certainly have not moved. Gave them my bank’s number. Later that evening, I was emailed and told it was all sorted with the bank. I suspect my bank actually flagged it originally because they know I don’t generally spend more than a couple hundred dollars at a time. They love me.
January 14 – Tried to check status on Vigor’s website. Their status system seems to be broken so I emailed them. I was told that it was on schedule and would be shipped on or about January 25th. I will re-inquire on the schedule on the 18th.
January 27 – It was due to be shipped on the 25th but was running a day late. Then on the 26th, I was informed that Mastercard has the wrong address on file so the bank had to be contacted to verify my address I had provided. It was shipped today and is due to arrive February 2.

Anyway, I’m about $400 shy of getting what I want/need to be happy.  I’m looking for an i7 triple channel ram system with blu-ray and an nvidia 260gtx.

If anyone is feeling generous, feel free to donate. It will go to making a disabled girl very happy.

Mostly, I use Facebook. I play some of the apps there (Street Racing, Mafia Wars, Vampires, Be a Tycoon, Farmville, and Pirates). If you play any and want to add me as a friend, just say it’s for apps.

Myspace I rarely go to. It’s just.. well, poorly coded, but I do have an account. I actually left Myspace for the most part to make this site.

Twitter I just recently opened an account.  I haven’t decided if I am going to actually use it or stick with Facebook. I mostly use it to read about some celebs I like.

Here’s my official Facebook page. Accept no imitations.
Elaneous on Facebook!

I play a few apps too. Mafia Wars, Vampire Wars, and Street Racing. If you play them too, add me as a friend.

I tried it on a low-end laptop with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.

WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their “distros” full of all sorts of useless shovelware like “FireFox” and “OpenOffice” and, haha, “GIMP”! — the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved $HATED user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!

The controversial Digital Rights Management system in Vista has been worked over, with user-downloadable “tilt bits,” which you can configure to your own liking. It’ll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that’s only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray(tm) of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.

A public beta should be released by the end of this year. There’s just no way that Steve “Trains Run On Time” Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on $NEXT_VERSION release day — the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets — in the shade.

I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they’re finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.

Also, there’ll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It’ll be awesome!

I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.

^^ the above is pure humor

First of all, I ordered it directly from Logitech’s website.  I received free shipping and 30% off with a promotional discount, so I got it shipped for $105 instead of the usual $129 plus shipping.  They also profess to ship items in stock on the same day, which they do not.  My experience was that my item wasn’t shipped for 3 days.  Sales is unable to have any contact with warehousing as I called to ask about the shipment and was told they could tell me nothing.

Overall, the ordering experience was a C-.

The Keyboard

It’s very comfortable to type on.  I had been using a Microsoft split keyboard prior to this purchase and it required a couple of days of adjustment.  The palm-pad/wrist-rest is very cushy and has somewhat of a fabric feel.  The keys give a bit of a tactile response when pressed and are all the same size (except for special keys like shift, alt, ctrl, and such).

It does not have an insert key above the arrow keys, which I miss every single day.  This, to me, is quite annoying, but it does seem that almost every keyboard coming down the pipe is missing it.  It has a load of special keys including a few which are apparently Vista specific that pretty much do nothing for me since I use XP Professional.  It has standard media keys as well.

My biggest complaint is that it has a very laggy response when pressing keys sometimes.  Usually, after not typing on it for several seconds, when you start typing it ignores a key at the beginning.  The response timing is horrible.  This keyboard is definitely not recommended for a gamer.  I am going to go back to my Microsoft Natural Elite until I find another corded keyboard and only use this when I NEED to use a cordless keyboard (i.e. not when sitting behind my desk).

Overall, I give the keyboard a B+.

The Mouse

The mouse is an MX-1100.  Logitech sells this mouse separately as well.

It is the most uncomfortable mouse I have ever used.  I would rather use a tiny half-mouse designed for a laptop.  This mouse absolutely requires the user use a claw-grip which makes absolutely no sense as it’s not a gaming mouse.  (I am a palm-grip user.)  It has horrendous response time.  If you let it sit more than 3 seconds you have to jiggle it back and forth for it to start being sensed again.  While this is by design; it’s to save battery life.  It’s positively annoying when you’re trying to do something like fine-tune precision movements as it will shut itself off while you’re doing it!

The entire front of the mouse slants forward, forcing you to hold it claw-grip style or pushing your entire hand forward at a 40 degree angle to use the buttons.  But, the buttons do work.  I guess I can say that.  The DPI settings available in the setup allow you to pick several different settings, but the mouse buttons on it only allow you to choose two.

Overall, I give the mouse an F.

I would buy the corded version of the keyboard, however.  After this experience, I will not be looking for any more cordless keyboard or mice, unless they are a high-end brand like Razer.