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post #21 of 31
11/14/05 at 5:28pm
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Originally Posted by Karma
Don't be so jaded. Windows stability has VASTLY improved from the Win95 & Win98 days. As a matter of fact, I can't remember the last time when my computer froze due to the OS. All of my freezes come from me overclocking the CPU/FSB/VC core, etc.
Its improved... but its still bad... Hell i installed 2 patchs from MS the other day to a small backup node (3.6GHz P4, 2GB ram, 4x 160GB Disks in RAID 0+1 + Windows 2003) and it didnt stop crashing until i removed the patches...
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post #22 of 31
11/14/05 at 5:53pm
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Originally Posted by Karma
Don't be so jaded. Windows stability has VASTLY improved from the Win95 & Win98 days. As a matter of fact, I can't remember the last time when my computer froze due to the OS. All of my freezes come from me overclocking the CPU/FSB/VC core, etc.
You're lucky. The last two windows PCs I've owned have made me wrestle with WinXP almost daily. It won't freeze, but I'll have windows explorer crash frequently for no reason whatsoever causing me to restart.
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post #23 of 31
11/14/05 at 5:57pm
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Originally Posted by benroethig
You're lucky. The last two windows PCs I've owned have made me wrestle with WinXP almost daily. It won't freeze, but I'll have windows explorer crash frequently for no reason whatsoever causing me to restart.
yep...
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post #24 of 31
11/14/05 at 6:15pm
Big ( o Y o ) on everything.
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post #25 of 31
11/14/05 at 7:31pm
I would like a PDA with the power of my TM8104. Including hard drive, of course
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post #26 of 31
11/14/05 at 7:39pm
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I would like a PDA with the power of my TM8104. Including hard drive, of course
lol
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post #27 of 31
11/14/05 at 7:40pm
i would like to see more laptops that are an inch thin with 15.4 inch screens that weigh five pounds.
i wish there were more minipc options for gaming other than the Fragbox, which in my opinion is uglier than, well ugly.
i wish there would be higher resolution for smaller screened laptops, like my toshiba 14.1 inch screen, i wish it had a little higher resolution, just a little.
i wish laptops didn't help you out with your heating bill.
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post #28 of 31
11/14/05 at 8:05pm
i havent had any problems with an XP machine up until a week ago because of the keylogger spyware I had, and yesterday when i discovered the video drivers were the cause of all my problems (I think their were mix and match of the individual files from 3 different driver builds)

that being said, plugging SkyOS

http://www.skyos.org

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post #29 of 31
11/14/05 at 9:10pm
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Originally Posted by benroethig
I have a somewhat different view. I have nothing against the big cases. I do have a problem with the amount of obsolete tech still used in retail PCs. For instance, there is a PC I am seriously looking at. The keyboard & mouse are PS/2 even though the vastly superior USB has been out for 6-7 years now. The hard drive is ATA-133 while there 4 SATA ports on the motherboard. The graphics card slot is PCI express, but the three other expansion slots are normal PCI. It's been out almost two years and is a superior technology to good ole parallel PCI. Yet, there are no PCI-E x1 sound cards, wireless cards, video tuner cards, etc. Plus don't get me started as to why Plextor is the only company to currently ship a SATA optical drive. Legacy users should have to buy cards to make their old hardware compatible, we shouldn't have to buy things to make our brand new hardware last.
Oh, sure, I've tried to put that as a personal opinion. I know the majority of desktop users don't care at all about this. Actually, I believe that's why the thread's title is that (personal feelings). Probably that's why I have a notebook...

Anyway, I agree with obsolete technology, too. One of the things I would not put in a notebook anymore, for example, would be the 56K modem. I guess it would be much more useful for everyone to sell PCMCIA modems, instead of putting it 'default'. I have no idea if on a notebook the 56k takes a lot of space of the chassis, but anyway, 56k is dying and i believe it's better to start considering it a PCMCIA piece for those that actually use it.
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post #30 of 31
11/16/05 at 8:54am
Less upgade options and better base pc's. But within budget, everybodies budget. Laser printers selling better than ink jet printers. LCD's with built in tv tuners with pip; it would look better than most tv tuner options.
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post #31 of 31
11/16/05 at 9:55am
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Originally Posted by Teckng778
Its improved... but its still bad... Hell i installed 2 patchs from MS the other day to a small backup node (3.6GHz P4, 2GB ram, 4x 160GB Disks in RAID 0+1 + Windows 2003) and it didnt stop crashing until i removed the patches...
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Originally Posted by benroethig
You're lucky. The last two windows PCs I've owned have made me wrestle with WinXP almost daily. It won't freeze, but I'll have windows explorer crash frequently for no reason whatsoever causing me to restart.
I have 3 PCs running 24/7, and my notebook runs almost 24/7. The only time any have been rebooted (with the exception of the notebook) in many many months (over a year for one of the desktops) is when 'doze needs me to after a patch. All have run without a single error, hiccup, bsod, hanging process, etc since install. 99/100 it's more of a user problem (software or hardware configuration) or 3rd party software problem (including spyware/adware/virii) than a Windows problem with a properly patched, clean XP or 2k system. I am far from a Microsoft hugger, but XP in and of itself is extremely stable when properly setup and maintained.
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