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My comments on the 2233 are on point, and, I'm thinking the clunky adjustments on the Viewsonic might not just be with the model I tried, but, I could be wrong. Looked again today, and, for a 1080 120 Hz TV they are starting about 380.00, at 32". Plasmas seem to be free, 52 inches for 500...

I've used, and returned, thanks to software/firmware and screen quality on a 27" Viewsonic from Costco. I replaced it with a 2233W Samsung: I find this passable, but price fixed, and a poor value, along with limited, poorly designed connection setups. Get a 10 bit screen TV.

My general read on this stuff is I'm with David, and like the wired RAZER mouse, though the cord isn't that hot. Gigabyte, for 50 bucks, has a wired mouse with a serious, thick cord on it that I like a LOT. Newegg had a mouse, keyboard wireless combo, refurbished, for 20 bucks from newegg.com...

My general read on this stuff is I'm with David, and like the wired RAZER mouse, though the cord isn't that hot. Gigabyte, for 50 bucks, has a wired mouse with a serious, thick cord on it that I like a LOT. Newegg had a mouse, keyboard wireless combo, refurbished, for 20 bucks from newegg.com...

Netbooks do match the speed of a tethered phone. Both up and down are WELL under 1 mb/sec. They just seem way overpriced, considering the current laptop market, refurbished and otherwise.

I did get a chance to play with David's, with the X-25 in it. Was somewhat underwhelmed. Think I'm going to for the CF-29, for 330 bucks, refurbished. Shove it under the seat of the car, and, if it gets stolen, not that much money in it. NOTHING will hold up like the CF-29.

Speaking of laptops, I'm typing this on the CF-51, since our network just went down. When you call Astound, and get a busy signal, it can't be good.;-) Anyway, looking through what's out there, overstock.com has a refurbished Panasonic CF-29 1.4 ghz for 329.00, 3 dollars shipping. They also...

I have yet to play with a Thinkpad, except once, a long time ago, on Market Street in San Francisco. Had the stupid little eraser for a mouse. Nixed it for me. I've had a Panasonic CF-51 that I've used for what, 6 years now? 1.6 ghz, cost about 1300 new, with 1.25 gig's of ram. For a full...

HMMM. Costco has a Samsung for 279. Have to check on their warranty on netbooks. The 410 and 510 start looking real good from IBM. A bit bigger, but, they do have optical drives. Current pricing is the savings equals the cost of the Samsung Netbook.

What a joke. They said they would 'cross ship' a new one. I STILL don't have the replacement. Reinstalled the third drive bay. Works, sometimes...sometimes not.

Forgot to ask what you use to load an operating system onto a new hard drive on one of these little gems?

Hi I've managed to finally get a phone I can tether to a laptop. The connection is VERY slow, but, it works for mobile stuff, and, it's ten bucks a month, got to like that part. So, I was thinking I might get a little netbook, throw a SSD in it I happen to have laying around, and tether it to...

Start with the cheapest one avaliable. As she trys to do new stuff, she'll find something apple has fubared, requiring her to upgrade to another model, until she's finally got an insane amount of money in an overpriced POS. Converse is to give her what she really wants, suggest she buys the...

I saw some benchmarks showing the 480 and 5870 to be MUCH faster, like twice, then the 295. Real world tests, and reviews show the gap to be MUCH smaller, for the games, few that they are, that I play. It only gets a little noisy with extended game play, and I don't do that often.

Anyone played with one of these? How do they compare to the 285-295? Card you've used?

It would be MUCH cheaper, and probably better to just buy a VCR/DVD player, that can copy a tape right to a DVD, in the machine. I'm not convinced a setup exists in a computer that allows the VCR tape to be converted to a DVD format, without software. The plextor-converter software wouldn't...

You may want to rethink that. Drive issues. I've purchased a bunch of Samsung 1.5 TB from Newegg, a bunch being 6-8. They have come in plastic, with the foam, and once in awhile some bubble wrap. No problems here. That said, I don't usually use them 24/7, but use them in removeable drive...

Turned off defender as well. ESET is enough. Auto updates as well. Also looked through msconfig. Adobe puts WAY too much auto garbage in the startup folder.

Tried changing the priortiy for connections, nothing. Still have to use run, and the cards IP address to get gigabyte speeds between the two machines. New annoyance. LOTS of slow downs lately. Seems indexing is running at shutdown, and, with 3 1.4 gig drives, it effectively was freezing the...

THANK YOU. Now let's see if it works...

Thanks Sechs. Worked just fine. Haven't mucked around to really look for features, just installed it.

LM: For what it's worth: For some reason, on the HTPC, my install on a Vertex Turbo did not include the sound control panel. Conjecture is I should have pulled the sound card, done the install, gone back later and put the sound card in. However, it's too much work, for little benefit, since...

I've got it installed, and no problems so far...

I guess. Using a restore point is an easy fix, without leaving junk in the registry...

I'll have to give that a try. 2003 still requires activation, right? Still using 2000 office on a couple machines... GS

Great thing about having the server with 7 Ultimate. I can try stuff on it, and, if it screws the pooch, I can, and have reinstalled the OS. Do not want to do this on the beast. Odd as it may seem, those old Xeons keep working, and, keep being plenty for this kind of work.

DD: Tried AA 9.2 Pro. It pretty much sucks. Not easy on this. Thinking the best way to go on this is to print the documents, scan with Omni Form Filler, and fill them out. See how it works. GS

Is there a program that allows you to click on an area of the PDF document, fill it in, and save it, quickly, easily without 8-10 clicks? Thanks GS PS trying to fill out a PDF, print it, or save and email back.

"System 3: 754 Athlon 64 3400+. Radeon 9600XT, Samsung HD322J ~120MB/s hard drive & Vista Business SP2. Snappy." HTPC is similar, with a 3200+, and Nvidia 9600 Sparkle, and, perfect match for it, Velociraptor, with XP Pro, SP current. Also Explosion 7.1 sound card. I recently installed a 30...

Somehow the comment to install one version over the other, because the uninstaller might/will corrupt your registry doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies...

Several companies, including LG, Sharp and Hitachi have pleaded guilty to price-fixing and agreed to pay out more than $890 million in fines, the AP cited the filing as saying.

Has anyone every actually installed and used one of these? How rigid are they?

I have two of these in the box, http://www.granitedigital.com/satahot-swapinternalenclosure1.aspx and had a third one. Oddly, they aren't rigid enough to work well, stacked three up. I pulled the middle one, and they flexed correctly, allowing proper contact. I could install that Antec device...

Yes, it seems to be a POS. Others have had similar problems, low quality power supplies etc. However, DD isn't one of them. One port would be fine. I got my backup stuff done, prior to the failure...

Pulled the SSD, but, gave up on connecting to that port. You did such a neat job of connecting and bundling the cables I don't want to take them apart. Plus, with the giant video card housing, I can't really get in there anyway. So, I powered it up again, and, green light to power brick...

When I switched the cable end on the computer, it changed to the other slot. Appears the right Esata port is not working. Both cables work. I might pull the extra SSD and connect to that SATA port, since it really isn't doing anything sitting there.

Yes.

Spoke too soon. Only one channel is working...

THAT'S WHAT THE WEIRD CABLE IS FOR! :lightbulb:

The card I'm using comes with the Gigabyte motherboards. Don't know who makes it;-) This is the Toaster: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817707170&cm_re=esata_external_hard_drive-_-17-707-170-_-Product This was the defective card...

DD had a real nice, Startech removeable drive setup last time I was down. I bought the Esata card, and the toaster. Esata card was defective. One of the ports didn't work, and, the toaster ran at USB speeds, not SATA. Newegg replaced the card free, and, I just threw the old one away, with their...

Might that help add to a possible slow down?

Anybody know how 32 bit apps are run on 64 bit windows? Emulation?

120 bucks for a 60 gig SSD? http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=ShellShocker-_-20-227-394-_-08072010 Looks like a great deal, despite the rebate part.

That idea is perfect for places like Osaka, where in peak rush, or even on Sundays, going over 30 rarely happens. What about LA? They already have dedicated, some toll, car pool lanes. Why not put something like that over the car pool lane? GS

Hi Just installed a Flash blocker in Firefox. That's cut the plugincontainer down to about 4-5% even with double the number of windows open. Whoops! It just happened again, worse then before, typing and trying to erase something. This is typing in Firefox, here, and, Firefox is using about...

I found Mercutio's slow down. I've got streaming video, about 3 different windows open, and, I was typing in another. The web pages are www.wetsand.com and www.surfline.com Both have flash adds going , surfline in particular. I started typing in another forum, and, nothing for about 2 seconds...

Thanks for the heads up.

Vuze, AVAST, Peerblock, and Firefox are a pretty common set running on my server. Vuze is the primary culprit, and, once in awhile, typing is slow because I'm using near 100% of my processors, combined with a higher then normal priority for Vuze. YMMV. gs PS Have you considered optimizing for...

Hi Bill: There are a bunch of registry settings that Microsoft put in that REALLY slow down the visual effects, and snappiness of 7 Ultimate, which is what I'm using. I'm currently looking through a bunch of stuff to see what I've missed in using the OS. You can use the classic theme, and...