Posts by ViolatorX

The screen on the Compal is very nice. The best non-glossy widescreen display I have seen personally. Very bright, crisp and has good viewing angles. (I am basing this off of a DL71 with WSXGA+. The same platform and screen used in...

The company I work for is speculating on buying "Whitebook" notebooks, then putting the hardware together to sell to our customers. What kind of savings would I expect (assuming identical components are used) over buying a...

Well yeah, when playing games, I also bump it to full power to avoid any hiccups in the action. For typical desktop use though, speedstep works just fine.

What's wrong with having speedstep enabled? All it does is downclock when there is little/no load on the CPU. Whenever a process needs more CPU power, speedstep automatically and seemlessly bumps up the frequency on demand. There is...

Download the security/critical updates, but DO NOT...I repeat, DO NOT download device driver updates from Microsoft. I work as a computer tech and on several occasions (last one was 2 weeks ago) a driver update competely screwed up a...

The power rating on power supplies is the maximum sustainable output. For just watching movies, it would be a fair bit less than 90 watts. I say you'll be ok as long as you don't play any video games on full brightness. If worse...

I brought an old Toshiba Satellite 225CDS (P-133mhz, 48mb RAM, 1.2gb HDD, Win98) with me to school a couple times in 2004. Spent a good 30 minutes trying to get my wireless usb adapter to work with the college's wireless. Only used it...

Well yeah...it's kind of hard to find things that have not been released yet. The features you are looking for will not be available for at least 6-12 months. Vista will also be released around this time. And for the record,...

It can make the lappy run a few degrees hotter due to heat not being able to dissipate from the keyboard or top casing. It shouldn't be enough to cause damage though. Most of the heat is blown out of the side with intakes on the...

Not possible (or atleast not practical) as far as I know. You'd have to somehow rewire the LCD in the tablet to connect to a regular video card. That does not even include the touch functionality. Not even sure how one would go about...