Posts by Smeggy

There is another factor for me at least which requires me to have ATA, that is, if the lappy goes down for whatever reason I can take the drives out and still use them in my external housings to retrieve data (which I use everyday) and...

I love my Echo Indigo cards (I bought 2 of them) really good sound quality through my in-ear monitors and as mentioned, the analog volume control is smoooooth. I'm not gonna complain about $100 for a very good PCMCIA soundcard when my...

I don't recall seeing it anywhere, but is it possible to run the thing with 1.5Gb Ram, ie. adding another pair of 256Mb chips on top of the 2x512Mb chips. This would be ideal for me as 1.5Gb would then be cheap enough to afford. Going up...

I've yet to have a HDD of any kind crap out on me and I've had dozens of them over the last 12 years. I still have a couple dating back to '95 that still work fine (albeit slowly). I think you have a much, much higher risk of loss...

I don't really care about widescreen or not, what matters to me is the resolution and most of the widescreens don't have what need, especially the 17" ones. I would also like a system with at least 3 drives in it plus DVD writer....

Wow, that has to be the cleanest and neatest workstation I've ever seen in my whole life. Mine is buried under a huge pile of everything electronic you can imagine, along with books, papers, disks, spare bits if hardware and dust. I'm in...

Woo, I'm gonna get me a Compaq. That thing looks like it could blow away any and all competition. I duuno, maybe the knowlege it was a compaq and could never amount to anything was just too much and it commited suicide heheh

I've had a glossy 17 lcd desktop monitor for a couple of years now (AG Neovo X-17) and while reflections can sometimes be annoying, despite the anti reflection coating, it does indeed look very sharp and very deep in a way my Tosh lappy...

Phah! I already have external hubs and they just add to the clutter. I use a USB Touchstream keyboard, USB Wireless mouse, USB microphone, USB HDD, USB graphics tablet, USB Gyromouse, USB webcam and a USB slot to power my 2.5"...

I think I could use about 10 USB slots and at least 2 'fully powered' 6 pin firewire ports (when plugged in). Would it *really* be that hard? I think most of us can easily swallow 3 or 4 USB ports without blinking... and no powered...