New Laptop

[Shadow Wolf]

I love it, then i got netzero hispeed, wowza, you should see this sucker fly.

I too have netzero hispeed. And I ask "When the bloody hell does this thing supposed to make me think its broadband?" All it does is make web pages load faster, because you can chose to have pictures load at a lower quality. It doesn't download faster, it doesn't reduce ping on a gaming server, and it sures the hell doesn't go as fast as broadband. Actually, if I had the money to pursue a lawsuit, I would sue for false advertisement.

 

[Crystallas]

It compresses known filetypes on the ISPs end and you decompress them on your system using your resources. But since everything uses some form of compression, it doesnt feel any quicker, and you lose image quality with certain providers since they reduce them(aka what they call optimize) for you to view them quicker.

I just picked up dual 7800GTXs for my system. They are nice but I dont recomend them since its not worth it right now. I love AMD, they have an allstar cast of engineers and architects. I dont think any one tech company in the world has compiled a list of people with respected experience so great. I remember and respect those greats and not so much the brand. They have been the driving force to get a company with next to no resources to becoming the most innovative chip maker of our time. Now only if their marketting was better than a 1000 year old worth of mouth system.. LOL. I guess if you want, you can PM me anytime aswell, any OS, any arch, new, old. Been doing this stuff for my whole life.

 

[Scuba Pete]

Here is what I ordered: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7266353&type=product&productCategoryId=cat15182&id=1117177367711

 

[Melody]

Isn't wireless da shiznit!

We have a Dell Desktop & Graphite iMac on ethernet & Gateway laptop on the wireless hookup.

Congrats on the new toy! Aren't they great? I've never figured out why they called them a laptop though because mine does not fit on my lap.

I bought my laptop a year ago and it has a 17" wide monitor. I love it! Yeah it's bigger than a standard lap top but I'm not squinting to see the screen.

It's also wireless which was great last summer. My husband would pull into a parking lot in a populated area near hotels and we could usually find a connection that didn't require descrambling.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

It's also wireless which was great last summer. My husband would pull into a parking lot in a populated area near hotels and we could usually find a connection that didn't require descrambling.

Thats the nice thing about wireless. I can walk to my friends house, which is only about a mile away, and enjoy the benefits of wireless internet at no charge.

 

[anders]

I wish that I had saved some data on my first tuggable (heavy!) computer for you kids. IIRC, it had 640 kB of RAM. Of course no hard disk - such things were for mainframes only. It had two! YAY! diskette drives @ 360? kB. Screen? Yes, WAY superior to the Osborne 5". Being then in my thirties, I could even read the lines. That box was, though, a useful addition to my far superior IBM clone, running at 12 MHz (in Turbo mode), featuring 640 kB RAM and a HARD DISK! of 20 Mb!!

What a museum, if I'd have space enough to save those fossiles, including my first computer (excluding the VIC 20, featuring 3,5 kB free RAM after loading the firmware): no HD, no diskette drive (mass storage on a cassette recorder), speed some 3,5 MHz I think.

 

[Scuba Pete]

I have my first IBM AT... 8mHz and 512K ram soldered directly to the MB. 2 33Megs HDs, but one had to come out when I started using that new fangled 3.5". I didn't think those drives would ever be popular but I bought one anyway!

 

[michel]

I wish I lived in the states http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/inspn_6000?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhsthis one cost me $1,489.43 USD (its the center one)