Posts by Kevin25a

Now I could be wrong, but The alienware area 51M is acutally a 5660, without hyperthreading.

Quote: Originally posted by myrkat Well, the businesses in the know that I see out here in CA tend to shy away from Norton AV; and it is more resource-hungry than even McAfee, in my experience, and AVG is very tightly coded...

Im not sure where you got the idea that Norton isnt used by business myrkat. Mcafee is a dog and always has been, but here in Chicago in the last 3 years I have personally installed over 40,000 seats of Norton AV 2002 and 2003, at...

I have also successfully upgraded systems to HT without doing a full re-install or repair of the system. Install the new processor, and enable HT in the bios. Boot windows normally.. Go to control panel/Hardware/device...

Odds are there is some service or other applet doing its thing in the background when you see those lower numbers. This unfortunately is the way the windows world works occasionally.

Umm I could be wrong, but I have never yet seen a laptop that will run its native display at a given resolution, and simultaniously run an attached external screen LCD/CRT at a different resolution eg.1920x1200. So it is my...

Quote: Originally posted by gsferrari Isnt the 2.8Ghz CPU HT capable ? ? I am still confused on this point... All the P4 processors from their inception have the circuits for HT, however they are permanently...

Interesting... I do believe that this has a little more than something to do with the USB2.0 chipset that is used. I am working with a Sony Z1AP Centrino system, and I also use two external drives, one of which is both firewire and...

Whoops....my bad

USB 2.0 would be faster than firewire if you were transfering one large file, say a 650mb ISO image for Linux. But firewire handles smaller files and the many calls to the drive that requires better than USB2.0. In general use...