Posts by jpg71

Anyone have this problem before? The machine was working perfectly, for over a year, then one day the thing switches to battery (even though it was plugged in). The charge light wasn't coming on, so I assumed the power adapter went...

If this is still for sale, I'm interested.

Damn you Sushi! I just looked at my otherwise-perfect 8790 and noticed that my Sager Emblem is slightly off as well!! It's not too bad though

OK, I ran my 8790 under heavy load on batteries alone (both 8-cell and again with the 12-cell) and the system shut down gracefully each time when it hit the low-power threshold. This is a 3.4ghz Northwood, and my CPU temps range from...

Quote: Originally Posted by ifrit The desktop will just take some getting used to. I saw a 1440x900 screen in the store, and boy did that start menu look fat. Why did the start menu look fat? A square is...

Quote: Originally Posted by natedog81 ...plus you can always change the size of the text if its too small for you, I like my screen real estate. I like haveing 5 windows open and able to see them all at the same...

I placed a very thin ply of tissue paper, slightly larger than the fan itself, by the fan and watched it get pulled right onto the fan and stay there until the machine was turned off. The two larger fans are obviously on intake, as...

SETI: Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence SETI@Home: Use your PC to help analyze space recordings It's a similar concept to Prime95 - a distributed effort to use many computers to analyze small parts of a greater...

Speedbooster is Broadcom proprietary technology. Just as Turbo-G is Atheros' own protocol. You have to have a router that uses the Atheros functionality - like the GigaByte. Until all these vendors come up with a single standard,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Rufus66 Adam hate to open this discussion here, but if Sager can write a thing like this to control fan ramp up speed, could they (would they) write something to give us control over when it...