Posts by shock66

I have a getting-old PGC-R505 Vaio and my batteries are racking up some wear. I've heard you can partially get rid of battery wear by recalibrating them. Everyone talks about calibration utilities within the BIOS but the BIOS on my...

I have a Sony Vaio R505, I guess it's about 4 or 5 years old by now. Recently the battery I had started intermittently refusing to take a charge. I could leave the laptop plugged in all day and Windows would report it as...

Anyone who's thinking of buying: I read AMD just dropped prices on a bunch of processors by up to 25%, including Turion chips. http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20051024PR206.html Looks like most Turion chips are like 16% but that's...

One more question (shoulda put this up before but forgot): Anyone recommend XP Pro vs. XP x64? I've heard a lot about driver bloat and whatnot in x64 that tends to make it no faster or more useful than simple XP Pro. Is this true? I...

Quote: Originally Posted by lordsavant A. Is there really a white model of the MSI MS-1029 now? When I was buying , there was only black. Whoops my bad. Only black. I was confusing it with the 1013, which I...

Hi all, First post here. I actually managed to read through all 17 gruelling pages (at least it seemed gruelling at the time) and probably will get the 1029. I have two questions to those who already have one: 1) On the white model...