Posts by unclejung

Would the AC adaptor act as a surge suppressor? Another word, would a surge kill your AC adaptor but leave your laptop in tact? If it does, then would you consider buying a $20 item (my guess) to protect a $70 item and having to carry...

pyronn: you are correct. The higher speed only helps local network, not broadband. What I like about the Belkin Pre-N router is the increased range, and you can get better range with a 802.11 g card talking to a Belkin Pre-N router than...

pyronn: I had same problems with the Intel card until I reverted back to using the original Dell's driver. The updated Intel drivers on Dell's site caused my connection to drop after about 5 minutes repeatedly. I am not fond of...

You are sitting a lot closer to a laptop screen than a desktop screen (unless you have very long arm or use an external keyboard), so everything being equal, it's easier to read smaller text on a laptop screen, especially if the desktop...

My 9200 did that a few times then stopped. I haven't seen it for weeks. My wife 8600 also did that according to her.

Dinosaur, You asked a very good question. I am going to attempt a relevant reply. Quote: How is this possible? Also, when chaning from 96 dots per inch (dpi) to 120, shouldnt things actually get SMALLER? I think...

Hmm, I were suddste I wouldn't be convinced at all after reading all those "convincing arguments" so far

HotStuff2: similar problem (can connectk, but flaky connections) here with my 9200. The Windows drivers worked fine until I installed the Intel drivers, then I would lose connection after a few minutes. After uninstalling the Intel...

I built a Shuttle XPC a couples of years back and decided to go for a cheap $70 Nvidia graphics card for a couple of reason: 1) I don't play games on it, 2) all high performance cards at the time needed a lot of cooling and thus came...

dock44: I had similar boot problem with the Apple Cinema when I used it with the ATI 9700 as well. It wouldn't show the boot screen. I think this the whole ATI 9000 series video cards have this quirk. At least you have the choice of...