Posts by Odie

Surely you can force yourself to wait a few months? (I know it is usually easier said than done) because as soon as Intel release the next stepping, I think at 2.13 Ghz, the 2.0 Dothan will drop by at least a couple of hundred dollars...

Quote: Originally Posted by Aikeo worth the money? opinions? That is entirely up to you. If you can afford the extra $$$ and want slighly better performance, by all means go for it. But as you can see, there...

It's worth a try. The reason I'm not 100% sure is because I used to work in a computer store, and some oem install disks could not be activated with retail keys. Also, I installed XP Pro once on my desktop from a retail cd while I...

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Jeff.... just got one question..... is it *really* worth it? Isn't it just typical of my luck.... the lowest UK price has jumped up almost US $20 as soon as the retailer got stock in. (I could have preordered it the day before they...

It is only an image cd, it will restore the system to exactly how you recieved it, with two user FAT32 partitions and the small hidden Acer partition(s). There should be a cd key on the bottom of the laptop on the XP sticker, however...

Actually, it`s called NTFS As for the networking question, I'm not too sure, because XP file/folder sharing was pretty flaky when my 2012 was running XP Home and the desktop running XP Pro. Since I fresh installed XP Pro on the 2012,...

Excellent news Jeff! Do you remember roughly what temps you had in the same situations with the original hd? I'm really ready to pounce on the 7k60, but I'm looking to buy an hd mp3 player too.... and basically it has come down to...

Oh dear, unfortunately I don't think there is much that can be done unless you can find some way of soldering the pins back on, or managing to replace the drive connector (unlikely) BTW - what drive did you put in your 2012?

I installed and played Doom 3 last night: 1024x768 with Medium settings was playable (a little bit jerky, but nothing that really bothered me) - automatically stretched to full screen (widescreen) No overclocking of the radeon 9700...