Posts by steve_416

I'm pretty sure RAID was first designed with the redundancy model in mind (thats RAID-1, right?). I mean, the "R" in "RAID" stands for redundant. Not that RAID-0 isn't also cool, but the system was designed to...

Unlike the other 2, Gentoo doesn't give you binaries. They give you source code (much, much, much smaller download) and you have to compile it yourself (much, much, much longer process). You save a gig or two in downloads and CD...

In Linux, are you able to get the laptop to hibernate when you close the screen? Or if not, can it hibernate by hitting a command or going to the appropriate menu item? (Just to make sure I've got the terminology right,...

Quote: Originally posted by phubar If you like to play games, get a 128MB DX9 graphics card, no question. Everything else is of vastly less importance. See my post here for what your options are if you want such a computer...

Along similar lines... Ok, so with an M9, I can install DirectX 9.0, and play games that require DirectX 9.0, I just won't have all the new fancy features that the M10 has, right? Does anyone have any estimate when (ie - how many...

That all depends on how you use your computer. Do you often have an awful lot of applications open at the same time? This is one obvious symptom of having too many applications: when you switch from one application to another one...

Quote: Originally posted by Aerosmith This is really gotten into an overtechnical discussion of what can really be explained away quite easily. Obviously, when phubar said that the Pentium-M was a different chip with a...

Quote: Originally posted by phubar They pipeline instructions. There are a lot of steps to 'executing' a given instruction - for an ADD, basic steps would be reading the ADD instruction, reading the first input variable,...

Quote: Originally posted by phubar 3. Pentium-M is a different chip than the P4, with a different architecture, and can perform more operations per cycle, so even though its clock speeds are slower (0.9 - 1.7GHz), it can...

Correct me if I'm wrong, if there are any chip-architecture people out there, but from what I've heard, the Pentium-M chips make up for slow speed by having a larger cache (2mb on the Pentium-M versus 512k on the Pentium 4). So it is...