Quote: TWSBI Diamond 530/540?  Piston filler.

Quote: I have this keyboard in its upgraded version, the Enermax Caesar.  It's friggin' great.  

Quote: Yeah, 3k dpi is a lot 0__0   From what I remember most of the upper level players were using <2.0 ingame speed (I think I used 1.15) and <1k dpi.

Quote: Indeed, it looks really cool, a great vintage piece.

My G5 just broke on me yesterday... so I immediately went out and bought an MX518 on clearance and a G500 on sale  from Best Buy.  That price match thing is hard to argue with (G500 was $44, MX518 was $25).

Quote: I have heard the tracking isn't as good.  It's laser instead of infrared.  I don't know the functional difference here, but I have not heard the best things of the Lachesis, hence why it started as more expensive and wound up cheaper.  

Logitech G5 Gen.1 I've been using it for at least 5 years, it's worn the logo off and the grip has become smooth.

Quote: Those last two remind me an awful lot of the Ulysse Nardin Maxi Diver.  It's a good reminder :P   Quote: Brand name ;)

Quote: I threw it on Ebay this week.  I've sent you a PM.  If you get it, I'll knock off shipping for a fellow Head-fi-er.   EDIT: Nevermind, Ebay killed the auction for unknown reasons, so I just sold it on XDA.  Ebay's ridiculousness never ceases to amaze me.  

Replaced my Nexus One with an HTC Sensation 4G.  It lives up to the hype ;)

Quote: That's not true.  I'm sitting on a 540GT and I'm doing fine playing Black Ops, which in and of its self is probably not the best coded engine.  Sure he won't be able to max most new games out, but I bet everything will play fine.

You probably could but I doubt it'd be easy.  It's not a critical issue (i.e. not worth it in my mind) if it's going to cost you >$100.

No.  The only time it's worth upgrading your i7 is if you're getting a 2-series over a 1-series or upgrading to more cores (i.e. you should prefer any processor with Q at the end, it indicates quad-core; you should prefer any processor i7-2XXX, not i7-XXX).

Quote: Probably slightly.  It's more important for the lightning fast read/write speeds.  Booting for me is 22 seconds... including typing my password.  

Get an Alienware M14x.  Sell the current 500GB internal hard drive and get an SSD and another 4GB RAM stick on Newegg.  That should fit within $100 of your budget.   If you have a deal with your school for Windows 7 it shouldn't matter whether it's Mac or PC.  Your PC should come with a...

I picked up a never used Brooks Brothers dark-dark grey with blue pinstripes 2-piece suit at a charity sale for $10.  Tailoring cost about $50 from a nice lady who runs a laundromat down the street.  A month ago I finally got some Brooks Brothers non-iron slim fit shirts.  I'd recommend them to...

Just got my Benchmade Barrage 581 in the mail.  This thing is quite massive in size and weight, yet I highly approve.  I'll try to get pictures in.  I sold my Benchmade Mini-Griptillian Mel Pardue and Kershaw Ken Onion Leek to help fund it.

Quote: Actually I'm on T-Mobile and the EMP plan I use is the same way.  We're not getting the worst deal at unlimited data/1500 minutes at about $42 a person for 3 people.  

Quote: That's insane.

Best plan I've found is Even More Plus on T-Mobile.  Move to Google Voice for all texting and you can save $5-10 on that as well.

Quote: Ehh not really.  There are fine tourbillons that go at auction for ~$20k.  I'd say a more ballpark figure for most tourbillons is 40-60k new.

Quote:   Exactly     

Quote: More than a rumor, they should be in talks quite soon about a full-scale takeover.  I see this deal going the way of HP-Palm although I don't know if Nokia would end up making a lot less dumbphones since that's not really Microsoft's direct interest.

  Quote: Quite a bit IMO (if we're talking about Windows Mobile here), although I'm still trying to get my mom to switch over and she's leaning towards iOS.

I caved, I got a Lamy Dialog 3 in trade for work I did for a friend, medium nib, brown J. Herbin ink (Cacao du Brasil).  I am never going back to another pen again.