Posts by Narg

Quote: Originally Posted by zzpulp Urrr.... The SSD is essentially made of the same material as the buffer on a hard drive. Therefore, it would not need a buffer (until ppl think SSD's are too slow). A hard drive...

SSD's are still quite new. I'd buy the normal HD and get the SSD later. Even now you can get SSD's cheaper than $500 on Newegg (around $300 for a 128 Gig currently...) I'm worried about SSD studdering. I think that the cache memory...

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Have you seen a Studio XPS up close and hands on yet? Those laptops are fantastic. Great looks, great hardware, and best price. The pictures and specs on the web pages don't do those laptops any justice at all.

I personally would not use a laptop for picture editing. LCDs in laptops are notoriously poor on color properties.

Very nice review. Good attention to details. Couple things. Your memory screen shot shows 2 gig, not 4 as stated. Did you actually have the 4 gig stick in it for that shot? I'm thinking the Mini only supports 2 gig of ram total. ...

Here's an interesting statistic on Linux: Return rate on computer with Linux is 3 to 1 over computers with Windows. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=557 I guess that shows Linux is not ready for the general public yet. Also, I...

Quote: Originally Posted by heffe2001 What brand card did you stick in there? I bought a SanDisk Extreme III 16GB (137 shipped, damned expensive). Hopefully it'll be pretty damn fast in mine.. I sure hope the...

Only suggestion, try to get the processor with at least 3MB cache. 2MB is good, but the processor determines the life of a machine. Get the T8100 or T9300 (6MB!) if you can do it. The cache does make a big difference in many...

Isn't the Cantiga GM45 Chipset a Centrino 2 line of chips? If so, the Studio line of Dell's has this. So it is Centrino 2, right? That and so far the press has called the differences between the Centrino 1 and Centrino 2 processors a...