Posts by notewriter

I've got the ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 and it is really good. Some bugs and tends to slow things down somewhat but I am really please with the quality of it, the quality of the picture and the features on it.

Mine had one dead pixel at the bottom in the tool bar area. I would have exchanged it for another but BB had no more in stock at the time. I have since learned to live with it and only notice it on boot up now...

Yeah, it took me a while to adjust to life without ActiveX. Just mostly because I was so used to taking it for granted. But life goes on and I would much rather have stability than bells and whistles. Firefox came out after I began using...

Though I had minimal luck with Spybot and Ad-Aware I have to say that once I started using Mozilla browser rather than IE I had zero issues. Check out Firefox for Windows....

I absolutely adore Linux. Easy to use, install, free, lots of cool stuff, frequent updates. The only thing that keeps me in Windoze is gaming. Linux hasn't quite got the drivers (and I couldn't get the 64 bit drivers to work on my lappy...

Yup...once I got over waiting for the hinges to crack I could really sit down and enjoy this awesome machine! So thrilled with all that I got for the price! I just saw a fresh new stock at Best Buy last night so there will be lots of...

I had the same thing a few months ago. My ISP would start up without prompting, usually in the middle of a good match of Call of Duty. Bah. I had to reload my whole dang OS, at which point I switched to Linux.

Nope...no firewire.

Try a notebook cooler pad - can order them from New Egg or even get them from Best Buy/Circuit City/Etc....it should keep your lappie nice and cool enough that you'll see a difference.

This happens on occasion with me too though not as often as I had experienced on other laptops. It does drive me crazy though and I think that the unit itself is just going to start spinning wildly across the desk and am tempted to strap...