Jim Kallinen

Just ordered and customized it a bit driving up the price some. But still getting this big a savings.
Should be able to run X-Plane 10 easily. Almost more horsepower then my XPS 730x.

http://configure.us....l_id=xps-l702x


2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7-2760QM processor 2.40 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.50 GHz
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64-Bit, English
750GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive[Included in Price]
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 555M 3GB graphics with Optimus[Included in Price]
17.3" FHD (1080p) with 2.0MP HD Webcam
Tray Load Blu-ray® Triple Writer (reads and writes CDs, DVDs, BDs) [Included in Price]
JBL 2.1 Speakers with Waves Maxx Audio 3 [Included in Price]

He has been around X-Plane since he was 2 and I bought X-Plane 5.42 from Laminar Research back in Oct. 1999. Have them all since that time.
Bought him a Dell computer 4 years ago with an onboard video setup and have even bought upgraded PSU and video cards that would not work.
So after years of waiting, he is now 15, he asked if I could install earlier versions to test to see if they would work. 6.70 worked great and I have so
many back up CDs of planes and scenery, He will be busy forever. That is, until I can find a joystick for him. Might have to upgrade my own so he
can have my Cyborg Evo.

Only place I have seen tire smoke is on those crazy AI planes when they make hard slow speed turns.

Decided it was time to make some changes and upgrade my computer. First was memory. Had 6gb installed on 3 sticks and went to Crucial. com
and used their computer configure tester and they showed me that I could upgrade to 12gb with 3/4gb Ballistix 1600 DDR3 chips. Have them wrapped
and sitting under the tree. Then I decided it was time to upgrade the GPU to, Had a BFG GTX 280 installed and just purchased http://www.nothingbu...=164817&ai=1550 this morning, Should be here next week in time to put it all together.

X-Plane should work even better now, not that i had any problems.