Posts by thegad

I ordered mine a good 5-6 days before you but I'm getting mine tomorrow as well. My copy of KOTR II just arrived, HL2 is on the way, and I'm ready to d/l the F.E.A.R. demo. Here's to gaming goodness!

pickup the averTV pcmcia tv tuner from newegg. It's about $75 after shipping I believe and is supposed to work great (none of the pesky lag like a lot of USB tuners), that's what I'm going to do.

Is there a decent free alterntive to Norton Ghost? I'm a little hesitant to install Norton products on my new system. They worked great for me...until you try to uninstall them. I want to keep my new baby as clean as possible.

Call when there's another 35%-40% coupon. I doubt they'll give you the full difference but being dell if you bug em enough I'm sure they'll knock $100-200 off or give you some little toy. Check my sig, I got a system that would've been...

What are the biggest coupons that tend to be released for Dell's LCD TVs? My friend got a sweet 27" Viewsonic LCD TV for $500 by catching a CompuUSA sale at the last minute and I'm looking to do something similar and split the cost...

How does your desktop perform compared to your laptop johnny? I'm just curious...

Question with regards to your guide on creating a bootable restore disk somms. When you're creating the disk to capture "1st boot" status it says use a different computer. All I have readily available are two other dell...

I already do all of that regularly, I've just never made any backups/images before. thanks for the tips though.

definitely I'll give that a try. they keep moving up my delivery date so it looks like it will arrive tomorrow (5-7 days before the original date)!

Hey, I was wondering what the best cost-free solution is to make a full restore point for your computer. As soon as I get it I would like to do this, that way if anything starts screwing up after I play around with it I can restore it...