Posts by Kakarot

Selling my desktop. Specs below. In pristine condition. Selling for $350 shipped or best offer. PM for more details. 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Processor 4GB DDR2 667MHz Ram 80GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200RPM 256MB nVidia 8600GT...

Quote: Originally Posted by ATC7 Having a dedicate higher end graphics processor in the MBP, does that mean the battery life on the MB is much better for travelling purposes? And does that also mean that the MB...

Well, I guess this system might be great for users who use a laptop and a second laptop or desktop. I guess this might work for me, but currently on my MacBook, I use approx 2.5GB ram normally (in use, not cached), and approx 100GB of...

iChat/AIM is the only method I use also. Yahoo Messenger works if you wish to conference with more then 1 person. Skype supports it too but only for voice, not video.

Quote: Originally Posted by sakor1 Laptop card ≠ desktop card. Laptop cards are not as fast as their desktop equivalents, unfortunately there is just too much to pack into such a small form factor, and desktop...

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade The HD is a 1.8" (Think iPod) so performance and size both will absolutely stink on it. If you want decent performance at all with it you will need the SSD drive most likely,...

How I feel.. Great system, I love the design and such. Getting rid of the optical drive for more battery space is great, I don't use my optical drive anyways, only during reinstall. However, the system only allows 2GB ram.. which is...

Vista eats up all available ram for caching purposes. XP does not. XP's memory management is to use the memory thats actually being used, leaving the free, free. In Vista, it caches all available memory for programs that you open the...

I was playing CoD4 on my friend's Inspiron 1720 laptop the other day and I noticed I can't crank up the resolution and quality without the system lagging badly. The specs are virtually the same as my desktop, minus the 4GB ram and...

They didn't ask me when I ordered my Vostro desktop.