Posts by groovon

thanks denb, I think you misunderstood: I know it would FIT, but I'm too cheap to spend the money! especially not being sure it would completely FIX the problem. That is, I don't know if the drive not working (not recognising a disk) is...

Just a heads-up: CompUSA has a sale on PNY 2GB [2x1GB] DDR2-5300 667MHz memory for $79.99. I read some reviews online and most are good. Price is better than NewEgg. Sale's on for a few more days. Dave

That's a very nice HD but I would have thought a bit of overkill on this machine. I haven't got any pretensions to this laptop being high-performance, just pure utility. [Even holding out on more memory to see if I really 'need'...

I'm looking at more RAM but don't really need it yet. Definitely if I keep the machine I will. BTW, Fry's has it on sale this weekend, [2x]1GB for 70 bucks. Dave

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn total cool cheers ... Thanks for the encouragement! I should try and overcome my gear lust(!) and be happy 8>) No doubt it's an excellent machine. There are always...

Thanks denb for the help. That's a little more money than I want to spend on it though, seeing as i'm not even sure it will fix it. Or recognise DVD burner (it only has DVD-ROM). But much appreciated anyway. Dave

Just got a Toshiba A215-S4697 for a hell of a good price ($550). AMD64 /160GB /1GB RAM /DL DVD burner etc etc. I'm wondering if there's any features I might miss later on that another couple hundred bucks would have covered. I'm not...

I'm in the same boat. I just got a A215-S4697 (AMD) and am trying to minimise Vista and remove all possible unecessary junk. So far I got rid of all the preinstalled games, and the McAfee trial version. I'm guessing you could ditch...

Can someone advise where I could get hold of a cheap (used would be OK) drop-in replacement CD/DVD-ROM drive for my old emachines 6805. Thanks! Dave

'Windows will not protect you without third party software' Thanks, that's mainly what I needed to know. She signed up for a year of McAfee for $35, it seemed OK. How good is AVG? I have downloaded it, but don't really need it yet....