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| Processor | AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane @ 2.8GHz (224x12.5, 1.425V) |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | Gigabyte sumthin-or-another, it's got an nForce 430 |
| Cooling | Dual 120mm case fans front/rear, Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, Zalman VF-900 on GPU |
| Memory | 2GB G.Skill DDR2 800 |
| Video Card(s) | Sapphire X850XT @ 580/600 |
| Storage | WD 160 GB SATA hard drive. |
| Display(s) | Hanns G 19" widescreen, 5ms response time, 1440x900 |
| Case | Thermaltake Soprano (black with side window). |
| Audio Device(s) | Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (paired with X-530 speakers). |
| Power Supply | ThermalTake 430W TR2 |
| Software | XP Home SP2, can't wait for Vista SP1. |
As school starts another year, students find themselves having to purchase another set of extremely expensive college textbooks. However, companies such as Freeload Press seek to fix this particular problem. By offering electronic versions laden with advertisements, they have succeeded in making a free college textbook. Freeload Press currently publishes E-versions of books for thirty-eight universities so far. However, this is not without drawbacks. The crude pages are written at a certain resolution, making resizing them a pain. Professors, such as Dean Randal E. Bryant, feel that "They're closer to Schaum's notes than to university-level course textbooks". In short, these free books are no alternative to the real textbook, or to the electronic textbooks that the writers make for less then half the price of the real book. These copies straight from the authors do not share the same resizing or advertising problems that their free bretheren have.
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