Posts by galahad05

My ultra-mini review of the Senn HD280Pro. Sounds real nice--natural. A bit light on bass. Painful to wear for extended periods of time (oh the pressure!).

Quote: Originally Posted by Pirx No, that is on two different systems, both of them state-of-the-art (you know, 2.3+GHz dual-core, RAID0 disk subsystems, the works). And, no, it is not the actual booting that takes that...

The one place where my Vista-equipped m1530 is letting me down (a bit) is in disk performance. I read up on it: Vista is basically 'teh suck' with disk performance. However, Vista's Service Pack 1 will fix that--I saw the benchmarks.

The Witcher, for me, was a very interesting experience. Yes, I completed it. Thoroughly. Great game, but it took some time for me to get into it.

OS/2 Warp.

No, I meant like, for a stupid example, MS Excel. If he runs the 32-bit version of the software, it will actually run slower on Vista64. Something about having to do some sort of translation from 32-bit to 64-bit.

Quote: Originally Posted by ZX81 He has a 64bit processor and yes its faster than 32bit on a machine that does have one When running 64-bit apps.

Quote: Originally Posted by HaCKs Well this sucks, I make the poll to try and make up my mind, and there are almost PERFECTLY even results. Pick one, try it. If you don't like it, switch. Either that, or setup a...

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2270998,00.asp I'd just like some informed opinions on their choices... $800 is pretty decent if the machine would truly be game-worthy.

A bit old (from February of last year) bit it compares five setups: Vista clean, Vista Upgrade stripped, Vista Upgrade, XP Stripped, XP. Synthetic and game benchmarks. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2089952,00.asp Note no SP1...