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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...

Thanks all, that's reassuring to know. So I'll put those motherboards back in the race. I've collected some review data from the 'egg and am using that as the starting point. Did that with SSDs as well, and the Crucial CT064M4SSD2 64 GB and Intel SSDSA2CW120G3K5 120GB seem the have the best...

I wish we could. I'll have Customs problems, damage and pilferage on arrival and before getting the paperwork done!

Awesome! Thanks Coug, I'll check it out.

Well, I hope so; I'd be going out on a limb assuming it will. Reviews on Newegg indicate visual quality using these converter cable sis a hit and miss. I need "safe & sure-shot" solutions since experimenting will be costly time and money wise. I'll do some more research. Thanks for the inputs...

The project crawls along. Time is the big constraint. If I was in Canada, I'd have asked Coug to build it for me. If I was in the US, I'd have Merc or Buck to do it for me. Many Z68 motherboards have a single HDMI connector on the back; kind of rules them out for me. I need a DVI. I guess there...

Pyle was a mfr of PA systems. I would not expect their amps to have the fidelity that would be expected of an audio system. I don't know if they have now diversified into the consumer audio business as well.

Who makes it? Couldn't find it on Antec's web site.

I'll give a short answer since I'm at work. The first filter was the display-out port. I eliminated all boards that had zero ports or only an HDMI port. The second filter I'm working on is the # SATA ports; the third will be the # and type of expansion slots. Question: when a mobo mfr says...

So are you suggesting a heavy duty surge arrestor between the UPS and the wall socket?