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Well, the problem with Lenovo's and Lattitude's is price. Too high for the purpose. I might be able to find an Inspiron for a little over budget. Otherwise it'll have to be the likes of Asus, HP/Compaq, Acer, MSI, etc. Hence the struggle to do the right thing :bleh:

So, netbooks are to be avoided. Is MSI still worth looking at as a manufacturer of laptops? Any hierarchy of mfrs to use when trying to find the right machine?

I know nothing of all this, but will still risk shooting my mouth off: he's not using GPUs to achieve these fantastic results?

She has learned to work the basics on PCs. Knowing how little they are able to anticipate their needs, I don't want to end up recommending a solution that is limited (tablet). Over here, tablets and mid-range laptops are priced alike, and laptops are certainly more versatile. Thanks all for...

Aha, sorry about that. I hadn't read SD's post, so your post was all Greek to me.

Tablet is ruled out; she doesn't want it, ad I thing it would be too big a jump for her and the even bigger luddite, my b-i-l. It's got to be a notebook or netbook. How is MSI as a manufacturer of net/notebooks? They hit some awesome pricepoints. This heah is a local website that is like a...

Is there a Lunarese to English dictionary available?

I think you are indeed mixing up the two - Starter and Basic. According to that most definitive source :beye:, Basic 32-bit supports 4GB physical RAM, and 64-bit supports 8GB physical RAM. Starter, on the other hand, comes only in 32-bit flavor and supports a max of 2GB physical RAM.

My sister, who's been a luddite all her 55 years, finally has learned how to use email and wants a laptop for email, web browsing and Skyping with her kids (webcam essential). Win 7 Home Basic is available pre-installed in a few countries only (including here) and is n/a in the "developed"...

The humor on this site, intended and unintended, is freakin awesome!

That shifter with red and black looks pretty blingy to me. Yech!

Thanks for the heads up. I can repartition now to make more room; not a problem. My work laptop has been running Win 7 Enterprise for about 18 months, and the 'C' drive is now using 22.4 GB. It has MS Office Enterprise 2007, Visio Pro 2007, Project Pro 2007, VC++ Redistributable, Acrobat, and a...

I decided to be prudent and skip the SSD for now. I do have a spare 250GB HDD I can make the boot drive for Win 7, but fitting it in to the case with the other drives already in there would be a pain. Prob is I can't afford any downtime. If I was building a whole new system, I could have kept...

Very few humans in the world are symmetrical; i.e., the left side being a mirror image of the right. For everybody else, one is bigger, hangs lower, etc. This applies to testicles, breasts, ears, nostrils, eyes, buttocks, you name it. So nothing to be alarmed if one is hanging a bit lower. I...

Now there's talk of risk to Bangkok itself.

Thanks for the link, Coug. It doesn't mean a lot to me since I'm out of touch with all the graphics chips and don't play any games at all. :)

I'm still scratching my head over this one. Not sure what's the point, other than for specialized applications like crime scene investigations, etc. I did go over to their website from another link, and played around a bit (seems to work only in IE). Nifty, but again, don't see the point.

My brother uses some reeeeallly yellow CFLs in his home. They don't seem to bother him, but I feel sick eveytime I'm there. I don't mind incandescents, but these really bother me.

How does HD3000 bench compared to discrete graphic cards? Does anyone have links handy? Thanks.

Merc, thanks for that link.

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Glad she's fine, DD. Luck, random chance, whatever. The dividing line between being ok and not is usually quite fine.

Chewy, sorry to hear about your wife's health. These can be managed if detected early enough. I wish you both all the very best to see this through.

The coin battery on the MB is the culprit more often than people realize. It won't cost a lot; replace it, set bios to defaults and try. I've had this happen too many times to me.

Time, Sorry to hear about your health. But at least it was caught and diagnosed. Many apparently healthy people die from their first, silent heart attack; they just keel over. Don't be so anti-medication. I have no known heart problem (but have not had a deeper investigation than regular ECGs...

You actually traveled? Noooooooooo!

Thanks all, for the concern and best wishes. That's what makes this a swell place. Coug, I was only half serious about starting a business. If I ever do go that route, it most certainly will not be a physical store, but a web based one. And you're absolutely right about not doing it alone; I...

Thanks all. The company has been struggling (as it has for the last 4 years I've been with them), and right now there's not a lot for me to do. In a way, I worked myself out of a job because of the way I structured and trained my downline; not that I regret it. It is indeed time to move on, but...

This project seems to be jinxed. Vendors here are a peculiar breed. They're reluctant to give quotes, promising to do so but never getting around to it. A couple that did have gone underground and are not responding now. It's like they don't want additional business. Sheesh. Latest development...

I guess I had enough for the purpose; 2GB & Win 7.

I tried Readyboost on a RB ready flash drive, and didn't feel any improvement. Stopped using it.

I forgot to add that ideally, I just want to move the w98 guest OS to the new environment. Reinstalling w98 and the app, and reconfiguring everything will be such a royal pain that it will be the choice of last resort.

Thanks all for the replies. a) Handy, I've paid for VMWare workstation three times already (ver 2, upgarde to 3, upgrade to 4), and don't want to pay a fourth time if I can help! Will Virtual PC convert my VMWare guest OS image and run it, anybody know? Or will the free VMWare Player be able to...

Y'all know I'm planning to build a new system. Want to run win7 64-bit on it. Have some legacy apps I need advice with. a) A Win 3.1 era app that I still use. The newest OS it'll run on is Win 98. I use it on a W98 guest running in VMWare Workstation ver. 4 on an XP host. The only peripheral...

Australian minister fights for his Vegemite in US :)

Nope. China has become what it has with exports. India has a very strong domestic economy compared to China. India's also more diversified as far as its economy goes.

Will we be seeing you on TV soon? Another intrepid animal person from Oz?

I apologize for disappearing. Between unplanned guests and work and being sick, I couldn't post here. In deference to the knowledgeable folks, I will go with a Seasonic 80+ Bronze PSU, the S12II 430B. After some research, I decided to buy only 80+ certified PSUs. There is a limited number of...

Looks very good, jtr. You should go into business making custom lights like this. An ex-boss of mine got into pipe-making (the smoking kind) and racks for storing the pipes. It was a specialized niche and he was well-known in the relevant circles.

You don't want to keep a cell phone too close to your head all night. It should be at least a foot away.

Here's the calculator I used - the same one as Bozo: http://extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp The stuff I eneterd was: 1 physical cpu Motherboard: high-end desktop CPU: i5 2500k CPU utilization: 90% Overclock my cpu: 4400 MHz, 1.3v RAM: 2 sticks DDR3 Video card: HD Radeon 6790 (no...

So the list right now is: Case: Antec DF-85 or Antec Nine Hundred Two V3 Motherboard: Asus P8Z68-V or Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P. CPU: Intel i5 2500k At least one Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB HDD RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM 2 x 4GB Power Supply: Seasonic X Series X650...

I really don't like to be boxed in.... The Asus is much better in this regard, but comes with less features (FW-400, etc.)

The problem, time, is nobody except Antec says the filters are washable. They don't even have pics for me to figure it out for myself. Perhaps the only better case from this point of view that meets my needs would be the Antec DF-85; one doesn't have to unscrew anything to remove the filters. I...

I'm late, so belated happy birthday, DD.

Sorry to hear about the problems you guys on the east coast had. But I'm glad everybody's safe and that the damage was less than feared.

The plan is to use onboard graphics to begin with, but I'd like to have the option of sticking in a card if I want to. My style is to obsess before buying, and once the trigger is pulled, never to look back :)

Thanks all. CPU will be an i5 2500K, which has HD 3000 graphics. The shortlist so far: Case: Antec Nine Hundred Two V3. It's large/small enough, has washable filters, etc. Slightly smaller than my present case. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P or Asus P8Z68-V. The GB has only the HDMI port...

What's the logic of not having a display connector in the back, or a header for it on the motherboard, of a board that uses the Z68 chipset??? The Asus P8Z68 Deluxe is one such; really nice specs, but no display port. Somebody that wants to use an add-on graphics card would buy a board with one...