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Posted: 5/21/2003 10:40:26 AM EDT
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Schweet![Beer]
That is a nice machine![:D] You da man! I am just "stuck" with my hp laptop P4 2.4, 512 DDR, 60G, with an ATI Radeon Mobility card running WinXP home(boy) edition.[BD] Not that I am complaining though as it works much faster than the one I had before...An old IBM 286 or 386? machine with a 133Mhz processor, 40Mb of ram and a 5 or so Gig harddrive with Win98. BigDozer66 |
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Posted: 5/21/2003 10:52:56 AM EDT
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wow, and I still thought my 1.8 P4 was fast... I guess I need to wake up and smell the silicone.
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Posted: 5/21/2003 10:58:47 AM EDT
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Quoted: Dude, I got my Dell! [:D] [bday] Happy Brithday?!? 3.06 Ghz w/800 Mhz front side bus 1.5 Mb Dual Channel DDR SDRAM PC3200 (2) 120 GB 7200 RPM drives (one external firewire) 128 MB 8x AGP video card Firewire/USB2.0 Dang, got me beat in single proc apps... only dual 2000's overclocked a bit [;)] here. Running WinXP home until I get my XP Pro edition swapped over to the new machine or install Win2000. I'm really looking forward to the hours on long disitance hold to Redmond to tell Bill Gates that I need my OfficeXP and XP Professional activated on the new machine. Kind of makes I guy want to hack the software he actually paid for [:(] You use the internet to register that. If it's already registered, they give you an 800 number to call, takes less than 2 minutes. No hold time when I called up to do that. They really dont say anything if it's not being called in on multiple computers in a short period of time. Need to add a 4x DVD-R recorder in the next month or so to complement the two CD-R burners. I make VCD's for my friends and having two burners allows me to make twice the copies. I got tired of 24 and 36 hour rendering jobs using TMPGenc making MPEG1 and MPEG2 movies on my old 750Mhz/768 Mb/40G machine. I spent last night downloading 55 Mb of updates to Windows and Norton products [rolleyes] (yeah, I know but let me live in my fantasy world will ya'?) have fun, dont get caught! |
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Posted: 5/21/2003 11:03:44 AM EDT
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Quoted: wow, and I still thought my 1.8 P4 was fast... I guess I need to wake up and smell the silicone. You mean SILICON. If you were smelling the silicone, people might be jealous. Nice machine Paul. Not sure what you paid, but I always enjoyed building my own. I usually save some dough and don't get stuck with software I don't need. |
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Posted: 5/21/2003 11:12:45 AM EDT
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Congrats on the new hot rod.
I have a new Dell as well, not as fast, only a mere 2.4 gz. I can tell you that I do like XP home. In fact, I like it better than pro, primarily due to the lack of drivers in the pro. It does not play as many games as the 2000 but handles what it will play much better. BTW: The Western Digital high cap hard drive in mine crashed. I bought a Maxtor as a backup. Dell support was great though. Tj |
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Posted: 5/21/2003 12:02:06 PM EDT
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You use the internet to register that. If it's already registered, they give you an 800 number to call, takes less than 2 minutes. No hold time when I called up to do that Turning "on" XP home only took a couple minutes but the 45 Mb for Microsoft patches and updates plus the 10 Mb of Norton AV and Firewall took all night. I've got a copy of XP Pro that I want to install and you've got to go through the phone call activiation to get that to work. They are such shit heads that on my old machine I went from Win98 to Win2000 then installed Office XP. I then triple booted to add XP Pro thinking that I could use Office XP located on the same partition. Nope. You can only use it in one OS on the same machine at the same time [rolleyes] Wankers. |
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Posted: 5/21/2003 12:16:52 PM EDT
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Yeah, what you said, I guess my head was stuck in some virtual breasts when I posted that [;)]
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Posted: 5/21/2003 6:25:50 PM EDT
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I got though to Microsoft on the first ring, got someone who spoke English as a primary language and after exchanging 43 digit numbers my Office XP started working again!
Now what to do with WordPerfect that came with the Dell for free [rolleyes] ... probably donate it away. |
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Posted: 5/22/2003 12:17:32 AM EDT
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You need Ultra320 SCSI. [;)]
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Posted: 5/23/2003 5:24:10 PM EDT
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Thinking serial ATA.
The external 120Gb Firewire drive is nice in that I can wrap it up and carry it to work with me. Same with my exteral 20Gb USB Jukebox the thing fits in my pocket and carrys 20 Gb worth of software and data that the IT nazis can't see. |
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Posted: 5/23/2003 5:41:13 PM EDT
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I'm still on my 550mhz P3, with a [b]3.1 gig[/b] HD.
Any chance you want to donate your old computer?[:D] |
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Posted: 6/6/2003 2:49:15 PM EDT
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Added the second 19" Mag Innovision monitor a a frugal attempt to catch up with ETH's post count. I'm running my browser window on one monitor and my music jukebox in the other now. I am able to open up two browsers but the poor old 56K moden doesn't hack it and I can't get myself to shell out $600 a year for high speed DSL - that's another AR for goodness sake.
Got the 4x DVD-RW today too. All is well with the world ... a virus has to strike now - or a kitchen pipe is going to burst ... |
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Posted: 6/6/2003 3:29:57 PM EDT
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Quoted: 1.5 Mb Dual Channel DDR SDRAM PC3200 I do hope you meant GB. 1.5 mB might be a little low for your needs. lol.... |
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Posted: 6/6/2003 3:38:04 PM EDT
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Quoted: You use the internet to register that. If it's already registered, they give you an 800 number to call, takes less than 2 minutes. No hold time when I called up to do that Turning "on" XP home only took a couple minutes but the 45 Mb for Microsoft patches and updates plus the 10 Mb of Norton AV and Firewall took all night. I've got a copy of XP Pro that I want to install and you've got to go through the phone call activiation to get that to work. They are such shit heads that on my old machine I went from Win98 to Win2000 then installed Office XP. I then triple booted to add XP Pro thinking that I could use Office XP located on the same partition. Nope. You can only use it in one OS on the same machine at the same time [rolleyes] Wankers. You guys put up with above BS, Microsoft sucks. |
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Posted: 6/7/2003 6:27:07 AM EDT
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Quoted: I can tell you that I do like XP home. In fact, I like it better than pro, primarily due to the lack of drivers in the pro. Bullshit. Pro and Home are 95% identical, except for the lack of fast user switching in the latter and you can't join a domain in Home either. Also, you don't have the Remote Desktop, no dual CPU support, and no file encryption. That's it. The actual files, drivers, applications etc are the same. In fact you can turn any Home installation into a full Pro install if you know how (I do ;). |
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Posted: 6/7/2003 6:41:14 AM EDT
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Quoted: Dude, I got my Dell! [:D] [bday] 3.06 Ghz w/800 Mhz front side bus 1.5 Mb Dual Channel DDR SDRAM PC3200 (2) 120 GB 7200 RPM drives (one external firewire) 128 MB 8x AGP video card Firewire/USB2.0 I got tired of 24 and 36 hour rendering jobs using TMPGenc making MPEG1 and MPEG2 movies on my old 750Mhz/768 Mb/40G machine. (yeah, I know but let me live in my fantasy world will ya'?) If you use TMPGEnc so much then you should have gone Dual Processor, also as Mattja said an Ultra 320 or U160 with a Striped RAID - to read those *.VOB files fast! SCSI - Still the choice of those who won't compromise. |
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Posted: 6/13/2003 12:39:49 AM EDT
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Quoted: If you use TMPGEnc so much then you should have gone Dual Processor, also as Mattja said an Ultra 320 or U160 with a Striped RAID - to read those *.VOB files fast! SCSI - Still the choice of those who won't compromise. I reckon Ultra Wide SCSI would be faster than SATA Even more so with Striped RAID It's also a cheaper option than Ultra 160 or Ultra 320 |
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Posted: 6/14/2003 7:31:30 PM EDT
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Both the internal IDE and external firewire drives are plenty fast enough for DV. I have a striped array on my Novell file server.
Yeah, 1.5 Gigabytes of RAM ... ya' know when your video card has more than six times the size of your first hard drive. I have tried Linux Redhat a number of times and find it hard to get the drivers needed. I have a u.are.u finger print scanner, a CD-R burner, a DVD-R burner, a film scanner, color printer, dual monitors and just haven't found Linux drivers for them. I was able to get one monitor to work, get Sound Blaster Pro use out of my Live! card, and get the modem to work. So Windows 95 like. I don't even want to talk about getting the firewire DV capture to work. I run Novell, Solaris, Mac OS9 and OSX, and Win2000 at work. We were using Linux to run an IDS system (Snort) until we went ligit. |
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Posted: 6/27/2003 9:16:19 PM EDT
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Have you got a Sony also(same specs as mine)? Except, that I just upgraded mine to 1 gig of ram.
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Posted: 6/27/2003 9:25:03 PM EDT
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A Dell - $1350 delivered [:)]
... but that was so last month! |
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