241 hours of Prophunt, followed by about 1000 hours of random mods / orange.

This is my excuse for being shit.

You should be able to save a bit of money/upgrade some components if you check out http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales

Well, from what I've just skimmed through the second laptop's 610m is completely pointless. The HD4000 available on the i5-3230M is actually going to outperform it in most cases. I would check that out for yourself (just searching for hd4000 vs 610m on google will give some results).

EDIT: also, having the 610m will increase power consumption and heat generation.

If you're willing to sacrifice the bigger screen, you could look into customising the Vaoi Fit 14E - you could get a 740m and 3337u with 6GB RAM for $700, then use educational discount if you can (not sure what it is in us, but it's 10% here).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4sUEFRC5Is

Can you try removing all your config files to a backup folder, including the ones in tf/cfg and tf/custom/###/cfg. Then verify game cache (not sure if this is actually required). Check if that fixes the issue.

Things like this happened to me when I had done conflicting configs. Try cleaning them out. Otherwise, try a different mouse and if that works, RMA the original if you can.

Edit: woops, didn't see what you'd said about the config. Make sure you've checked both/all locations though

I literally can't hear any difference ingame. Maybe it's just not going through the Razer program, I dunno.

This happens to me as well: applications which were already connected such as AIM and Mumble keep working, but browsers can't load web pages. I'm on a BT HomeHub 2, and I remember reading a LOT about how these routers screw with gaming. Might be worth just getting yourself a new high-quality router, but I would do a bit more searching for solutions first.

Also, just checking my port forwarding settings quickly showed me that I had my source/hl2 set up pointing to an old computer, so that might have been causing it. Check that, see it it helps.

When I feel like playing some casual music, noteflight and imslp are the two main resources I use. 8notes also has a decent amount of free music of varying difficulty.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Simarilli/

Donated for:

Stabby Blood Knife (providing) or Knife if can't provide own
Pyyyour Medigun if I can provide, otherwise Shade Medigun
Quad Scatter
And Huey Degreaser if I can provide, otherwise Sal sticky

If we provide our own stranges/gift wrap, can we get them signed too?