wat r u packin? [Computer Thread]

[Lilly]

It was supposed to be here friday technically.

Owch, talk about unnecessary suspense. If it still arrives in one piece, at least the UPS guys didn't play package hockey with your delivery, right? =P

Ouch one core is kinda rough...does it have dual threading? Because my i3 is a dual core, but has quad threading(essentially making it a quad core).

I wish it supported dual-threading! Meh, I bought my desktop PC in 2007, and 200 USD+shipping wasn't bad for a refurbished system like that at the time. (tigerdirect.com FTW.) It wouldn't even cost me $70 in used/new parts to bring it up to pace with today's standard refurb, but I'm a cheap bastard and don't really care about playing high-end video games outside of 7th gen consoles anyway. xD

And if you "own" the OS OEM Edition technically wouldn't it be legal to get your hands on an .iso file and make your own install disk?(I don't know for sure legality of it, just saying its an option)

I'm so tempted to torrent an ISO of Windows 7 and just use my legit license key, I really am. I mean, I kinda did the same thing for Windows XP Pro when I borrowed the install disc from a relative. (HP never packs their systems with the disc, hoping you'd be fine with the recovery partition instead. It's like they think their entire customer base are all "just works" idiots.)

But I'd still feel bad for going into a shady sector of the internet just to get something that should have came with the system in the first place. (My eMachines refurb included the Vista install disc.) And I'm not paying $350+ just for the install disc itself either, I could buy a second laptop with kind of money! While my license key is legit, that doesn't automatically give me the right to just rip a copy off the internet, because that's all the key is; nothing more than a license to use Windows. tl;dr, I'm at a huge impasse.