Posts by Entropius

Do not check your laptop, ESPECIALLY if you are flying through Atlanta -- that city (and airport) have about the highest density of criminals you are likely to find in the USA. Carry it in your backpack. If it doesn't get stolen, it may...

What distribution of Linux are you using, and what utility are you using to handle the scaling? If you use cpufreq, go to /sys/..../cpufreq and look at the files cpu_max_frequency and cpu_min_frequency. What's in there? What's in...

Yes, you should be able to stick a socket 754 Athlon 64 in that slot. HOWEVER, your system was probably not designed to cope with that much heat, and you may have Very Bad Things happen when your cooling system (designed to cope with 25...

Agreed on the weight thing. My machine is also not a light-weighter, and it hasn't really bothered me. Size, rather than weight, is a bigger impediment to mobility. I don't want a 17-incher, but I wouldn't mind a 15-incher that weighed...

Quote: Originally Posted by abf most coupons with fine print which reads "cash value 1/100c" so um...yeah. knowning microsoft there is also something in the EULA which prohibits transfer of a vista...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kakaze Sure, just like you aren't paying Sony for their logo or Alienware for theirs. Which is also why Sony and Alienware aren't worth the money. There are other non-Mac brands...

About the OS question: True, you can only run Mac OS on Macs, at least as far as I know. This isn't an advantage for most people; if you want a Unix workalike you can just install Linux on a PC. In fact Linux will run *better* on some...

Quote: Originally Posted by whuds Really? What notebook praytell is under 7lbs at 15.4 widecreen? I know Dell claims one but I weighed that one and it was just over 7lbs so I really do not trust the specs all the time.,...

If you're not a gamer then dedicated video memory does not matter at all, assuming that you don't mind the loss of a bit of system RAM.

And somehow they have magic non-fingerprinting screens. Seriously, my girlfriend paws her Asus constantly and it stays clean. If someone who has fingers even looks sideways at mine, it gets fingerprints all over it.