Posts by mr_mbuna

Its a 5400 rpm drive unless you get the 15" T42p, which has a 7200 rpm drive.

Well, my notebook search has gone from IBM ThinkPad to Apple PowerBook 15" to Hypersonic CL-5 (Compal CL56) to Sony S170 and Fujitsu S6000/S7000... and now back to the IBM ThinkPad. I was told that IBM laptops are unparalleled in...

Here's my Avus Blue BMW 328is sport pkg manual trans: http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg At BeaveRun in July - that picture is about 105 mph on the front straight. Good times.

They've been using them for years and my dad's current take-home laptop is a 1.7 GHz (Banias) Latitude D800.

OK, I've gotten the impression from this (mostly) and other forums that Dell laptops are not high quality equipment. My dad works in a government setting and thinks Dells are quality. He asked his IT department if they had problems...

I just searched a different way and found the "Thunderbird" core only went to 1.4 GHz... will the "Palomino" aka Athlon XP, which went up to 1733 MHz aka "XP 2100+"... arghhh still confused because the XP...

What's the fastest processor I can plug-n-play in my Asus A7M266 motherboard? It has a Socket A Athlon Thunderbird 1.33 GHz in there now. The board is based on the AMD 761 chipset in ATX form factor.

Just an update... I think I've decided to get the PowerBook & iPod (even though they won't give me that extra $200 rebate... I'm not paying for it ) for now... why? Because they are nice-ass machines... and the PC world changes...

Why are the native resolutions of desktop LCD monitors so low? Almost all the mainstream 19" LCDs have 1280x1024 resolution... that's low! 15" laptops are higher than that! My three-year-old NEC MultiSync FE950+BK 19" CRT...

This is what a few hours research has yielded: (AOpen 1557GL) iBuyPower Battalion 101 E-Turbo$2,060.00 (AOpen 1557GL) ABS zForce F2$2,013.00 (Ext Warr Avail) (Compal CL56) RJ Tech CL56$1,958.00 (Asus M6Ne) RJ Tech M6Ne$2,074.00...