Posts by notebook_ftw

Quote: Originally Posted by GBmanNC Yeah the core duo would make the pentium d its bitch, most notably in gaming. The new core duo 2 processors are literally just around the corner though (couple days I think) and they...

Quote: Originally Posted by PyxLax Yea, it is a lil flashy isnt it lol. Well then take a look at the Precision m90 lid. It might suit your likes better than the xps lid. Hey, that looks like my computer. ...

Every Windows version runs slowly after a while. Just the way it is with Windows. Why? Not really sure. These days, I'm sure it has to do with the endless updates that Microsoft is constantly supplying to the structure. Everything...

Well, just had my first annoying quirk. I was using Media Center to watch Comedy Central's mother load streaming, and UAC popped up saying some unknown exec.exe was trying to run. I clicked cancel it, went back to Media Center, and it...

Well, I finally took the plunge and partitioned the old HDD and loaded up Vista tonight. I'm actually quite impressed with it in a lot of areas thus far. This is Beta 2 btw. I wish I could have gotten a hand on 5456 or 5472, but I'm...

I'd have to agree. Conroe is a sucker punch to AMD, with the budget version performing as well or better than AMDs top of the line $1000 FX62. As far as the aquisition goes, it's a little sad to see competition going away, though I do...

It plays flawlessly on my machine, 2.16 GHz Core Duo, 1GB RAM, Quadro FX 1500M (~7900GS) at 1440x900 all settings on high except textures, cause before that last post I couldn't get it to go to high. I would say you can put pretty high...

From what I've read, the main problem with any Windows is the fact that it is built on the archaic NT technology, which was originally developed back in 1991 or 1993. Unfortunately, this also includes Vista. I think the problem that a...

Personally, the WXGA+ res is good for me. I thought it would be too low when I got it since I had a 14" XGA+, but now that I have it, the 14" screen's resolution seems too high. I find myself zooming into web pages to read...

Still wondering if anyone can help. It quit for a while, but it's doing it again. This may be related to Fast User Switching somehow, because I noticed it was off and tried turning it back on and that's when I started having trouble...