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post #81 of 97
1/28/04 at 6:16pm
I wonder which gives you a greater degree of change, Theme replacement or Shell replacement. If in fact all the components of the GUI can be modified through a theme, then there is little point in replacing the shell. (Except to save some memory) There is also a possibility that a shell replacement may affect the dll's that has to do with the Win32API, and perhaps in the process modifying a few GUI calls. That would be a bad thing.
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post #82 of 97
1/28/04 at 6:43pm
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Originally Posted by deltawalkerl
I wonder which gives you a greater degree of change, Theme replacement or Shell replacement. If in fact all the components of the GUI can be modified through a theme, then there is little point in replacing the shell. (Except to save some memory) There is also a possibility that a shell replacement may affect the dll's that has to do with the Win32API, and perhaps in the process modifying a few GUI calls. That would be a bad thing.
A greater degree of change would be with a shell replacement (e.g. Desktop X), but these just put a very heavy load on RAM and processing cycles, and most look very amateur/childish.

"Themes" on the other hand use no more resources than the original XP themes (Luna, Homestead, Silver) and are made by very talented graphical artists.

Discuss this issue in the new thread I created here. As this thread was about the lies and deceit of Go-L.
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post #83 of 97
1/28/04 at 8:14pm
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Originally Posted by Gold
Uhhm,.. Go-l style, this information above will be $1399 please...
Uh Gold, would you accept a coupon for 30% off on their next wundar-machwheeener?
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post #84 of 97
1/29/04 at 11:41am
Do you take travelers checks from Papua New Guinea?
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post #85 of 97
1/29/04 at 1:40pm
if there's a positive side to be found in this entire debacle, it's good to see that Go-L refunded meddude's money and owned up to the misrepresentation.

p.s. for some reason, this post was previously deleted.
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post #86 of 97
1/30/04 at 1:27am
I believe the forums have a standing policy of previously deleting all your posts posthumurously, Gr8.
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post #87 of 97
1/30/04 at 4:15pm
i love being special
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post #88 of 97
1/30/04 at 4:19pm
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Originally Posted by MARQUISDARQUIS
I believe the forums have a standing policy of previously deleting all your posts posthumurously, Gr8.
? Did gr8gatsby laugh himself to death!?!?

Sad day for the forums...only for a day though

Three cheers to the deceased and diseased

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post #89 of 97
1/30/04 at 4:46pm
Medude did you ever get your cash back?
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post #90 of 97
1/30/04 at 6:28pm
MEDDUDE said from the beginning that AMEX can take care of everything. I still wonder about that...how he will manage it. (AMEX only returns up to $300)
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post #91 of 97
2/4/04 at 6:15am
Hrm, still have to wonder about that ram drive. Sounds like just a partion with the temp folder/virtual mem set to use that partition. Kind of like the cache drive on linux?
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post #92 of 97
2/4/04 at 7:08am
That could be what they are doing in reality, if even that, but there are Solid State Drives, which is what they are describing. They've been about for a long time, really no different than a CF or SD chip, just bigger. Indeed, that's a strategy that's being considered, making a SDD out of an array of CF or SD chips. With the storage capacity of those getting up in the GB range, its not so unreal to consider having an array of say 8 or 16 or more chips, with a total capacity of 8 to 24 GB, maybe more. When they get those up into the 2 and 4 GB sizes, that's enough to carry a full OS and all it needs to operate. Think about the possibilities.
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post #93 of 97
2/4/04 at 4:12pm
Hrm, that would be pretty neat.
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post #94 of 97
4/2/04 at 5:55pm
I love how once the lappy was returned that go-l customer support dude never showed his face here.....HAHHA STAY OUT GO-L WE DON'T WANT YOU>
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post #95 of 97
7/8/04 at 5:06pm
amex only does 3000? then.. they sortof suck.. i'd get a visa, refunded a grand or two when a place went ankrupt before provinding the service
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post #96 of 97
7/8/04 at 5:30pm
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Originally Posted by MARQUISDARQUIS
That could be what they are doing in reality, if even that, but there are Solid State Drives, which is what they are describing. They've been about for a long time, really no different than a CF or SD chip, just bigger. Indeed, that's a strategy that's being considered, making a SDD out of an array of CF or SD chips. With the storage capacity of those getting up in the GB range, its not so unreal to consider having an array of say 8 or 16 or more chips, with a total capacity of 8 to 24 GB, maybe more. When they get those up into the 2 and 4 GB sizes, that's enough to carry a full OS and all it needs to operate. Think about the possibilities.
They are using the solid state drives, just calling them PuRam or something dumb like that. I finally found the ramdrives they are using, the picture is exactly the same as on their website.

If you look at the price difference between the systems with and without the solid state drives, you'll see they pretty much reflect how much the drives themselves cost (plus the generous markup that go-l is known for).
If you notice, they also never say how big the RAMdrives are - because they're the the 4gb drives http://www.go-l.com/_images/hdspeed_machl_3.8_full.gif

No one wants to pay $4999.00 for a 4gb drive, even if it is "instant-on" super-dee-duper technology (i'm not as eloquent as they are).
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post #97 of 97
7/10/04 at 8:00am
Solid state drives have potential, though I actually doubt they will ever replace hard disks. I believe the way they work are similar to CompactFlash cards used in digital cameras.

Now, the problem with CompactFlash is that under some rare occasions they lock up, and a format is the only way to make them work again. I doubt anyone wants such reliability for his computer.
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