I use the symantec corperate antivirus we use on our workstations and servers. It's not as resource happy as the Nortan home versions, and it hasn't let anything into our systems in the past 9 months since we upgraded to 10.
I found out 2 days ago, the 4x NEC DVD burner was having issues reading disks during boot up. About 45 minutes on the phone with tech support, and after them having me fry the drive with a failed firmware update, I was told I would have...
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I just received one, I'm impressed with the build quality, but it is still made out of plastic.
I'm impressed with the little guy, it's made of plastic, but it's sturdy,...
I agree mine works great as well, I'm also glad I picked up 1 gig of memory with it, with just my normal program installations (and taking the bloatware off and leaving my startup light), I'm using 512 of the memory with Outlook, Firefox...
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Or it could be the fact that the port on the modem is expecting a cross-over cable instead of a straight-through cable.
Check to see if the modem has a button labelled MD-X or...
Might try to find a deal for a Inspiron E1505 with a 2 or 3 year warranty for 1k. You will probably need to track down a coupon deal to boost the specs a little bit.