Posts by efalis

Quote: Originally Posted by MarekS Well $2499 for macbook pro with 2.0Dual core, 1Gb667, 100GB5400, and 1'thick and apple coolness While Acer is $2499 for 2.0DualCore, 2Gb533, 120GB5400, and acer quality and windows XP...

As mentioned above, the 3309 zip file contains the flash utility. It's pretty straightforward. You can do it out of the box, but I'd recommend doing the backup DVD of the restore partition first. - Ed

BeOS is being carried forward as Zeta by a small company called yellowTab in Germany. Apparently, they obtained the appropriate licenses to the sources and to distribute. Still a lot of the same hardware issues, especially for laptops,...

SimplyMepis just had a release a week or so ago and seems pretty up to date with hardware support. http://www.mepis.org/ - Ed

Enjoy!

What he said.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ice_Cold Debian is WAY to hard for new useres Start with a live CD Then go on to something like Unbutu or SLAX I'm pretty sure Ubuntu is based on Debian, as is SimplyMepis...

I'd use the D: drive for as much data as you can, as recommended by others, so you can recover it if you have to restore from the recovery partition. You can even install programs there instead of the default C:\Program Files. I'd...

I like it too. My most recent was a Dell desktop, and before that a MS ergonomic desktop keyboard and a straight keyboard on a Fujitsu E series. The Acer is really nice. - Ed

I wouldn't worry too much about 64-bit yet. My company sells sw development environments for very technical applications. While we've ported our compilers to target 64-bit architectures, even in our market space they're not moving too...