w00t!! I got my xps back! ...Aw fucking hell............

Of all the luck, I finally get my Dell XPS m1210 notebook back from my grandfather (he wuz borrowing it cuz his comp blew up on him, literally) and wouldn't you know it, the disk drive is blown. I can't seem to figure what happened to it while it was with gramps, unless he was making a bunch of cd's or dvd's with it and burnt it out... Anyway, all I know is that when I got it back I went to load sum new cd'z onto itunez, and the reader wouldn't recognize them. It kept telling me to put a disk into the reader when there waz already one in it. I found that by restarting my computer I can get about 2-3 disks to work, then I have to restart again to do another 2-3 disks, and so on and so forth. The good news is grampz iz in town still and, being the rich ass college professor and bachelor he iz, he is going to get a new external disc drive for me, and upgrade my external hard drive from a 120gb to a 1tb model that supports usb 2.0 and firewire 400 dual-connection, as well as a firewire 800 and an eSATA conection. I may even be able to get a kickin new 2.1 speaker set with sound quality that supposedly rivals that of most 5.1 systems out of it, which will free me up to purchase that eSATA connection card instead of buying the speaker set on my own and utilize that and its 3gb/sec data transfer rate with my new external drive. All in all, it may have blown goatz at first but it ends with an epic win for me. Viva el richo relativos!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

sweet. congratz :]
good things sure come about these days.

Mmkay. So, I did get the external disk drive and the upgraded external harddrive, but the speakerz were a bust. Instead I got an eSATA outlet adapter for my notebook and an eSATA connction cable. I also just found a kick ass sale on 2GB RAM memory chips for laptops and notebooks at Best Buy; 2GB of RAM on one chip for $49.99!! That'z down from a retail value of $134.99; an insane deal. So I just went and bought one earlier today and swapped it out with one of the half gig chips in my notebook, so I'm operating at 2.5GB of RAM, which kicks fucking ass. Everything iz so mush faster I don't have time to get up and do anything while I'm waiting for a program to open or load. The only thing that sucks about it is that I can only access one of the two RAM chip slots in my comp. The other one is located deep in the internal workings and guts of my notebook under the keyboard, so if I ever want to upgrade to the max of 4GB of RAM, then I will have to buy the chip, and shell out $40 to the Geek Squad and have them open her up and install it for me, that way if they screw it up, I can hold them responsible for it and get one of the newer model XPS notebooks from Dell. But all in all, I am quite satisfied with my new setup; It's fast, dependable, and has more than enough data storage capacity and the insane data transfer speed through an eSATA connection to upload and download from it. Now all I have to do is wait for black friday to come around after Thanksgiving to buy that speaker set and possibly new upgraded sound and graphics cards to round out my upgrading session.

so how as everything been going so far