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Hey guys and gals I'm thinking of purchasing a laptop and decided to go with dells inspiron series the 1420. core 2 duo 1.66 GHz with 2MB L2 cache, 667MHz FSB. 2 GB DDR2 ram at 667MHz and an Nvidia 8400M GS graphics card(highest they have) will this be enough to run a game like Overlord. I currently have a P4 3 GhZ, 1GB ram at 400Mhz and an ATI Radeon 9550 with the latest drivers. I have played Overlord at 1024x768 at 75Hz and medium detail and its extremely slow when I try to move or look around the movemnet is choppy and takes about 1 sec after I let go of the keys. Not enjoyable at all I'm

well mainly for school... I will carry it to school most days and work on it at home as well nothing too fancy maybe some virtual PC related operations and so on it doesn't matter 15" or 17" I just want to get some feedback from the pros...also with Intel releasing their santa rosa chip sets will the price for the existing core duos come down significantly in the fall?

Oops, I was looking at the overview page instead of the features page . If you fine techies recommend it I will get it. Also something that just popped into my head a few weeks ago but I forgot to ask was if it can do a full back up of the O/S and you install it on a separate machine wouldn't you have to reactivate windows? also wouldn't you have some issues where the O/S is expecting a certain motherboard, RAM, processor etc...

Bozodog I've checked out Acronis They have so many different products I'm leaning more towards this although it doesn't do incremental backup or even differential backup for that matter is there anything else guys could recommend?

Are there any really good disk imaging software out there? Norton Ghost or an equivalent to that. What I want to do is Back up my HDD full then incremental backups after that. I have XP (Vista Ultimate comes with one) I would like it to be free but backing up data can be invaluable sometimes. THX in advance :-)

I was thinking of buying a laptop soon and was wondering if prices would come down during September, for school... I was thinking about getting a 15 inch but is a 17 inch better? I believe the prices are about the same. I would like to get a duel core or core 2 duo (almost the same thing) running at 2 GHz approx. 1 GB or RAM I can upgrade that myself...also if I were to ask the sales person would they know what speed the RAM is? THX in advance

I want to get a laptop soon and was leaning more towards purchasing RAM than processing power a duel core 1.7GHz is fast 120 GB is fine. So with the money I save I can get more Ram installed plus buy a 2.5' HDD and all that would be comparable to a mid range laptop...am I crazy for thinking such things or on to something? Also I don't want to use the OEM version thats pre-installed with the laptop but I guess I have no choice without the serial number (maybe going some special sites). software like PC-Decrapifier might help.

I just wanted to add...If you do decide to expand the RAM even more check if your motherboard has duel channel. So you would put a stick in the first skip the second and install it in the 3rd slot it would give you additional performance. If you have XP it will probably be better to stick with 1 GB unless you find that you need more or if you are thinking of installing Vista...But if your going to go that far maybe a new comp would be better. Anyway I'm board so I thought I'd give my 2 cents. Bye

I've never heard of Acronis looks good, I will what you said mikex Curious do most laptops come with the drop sensors...where it will lock up the HDD if it detects a fall so no data is lost?

This has been happening since I updated to Firefox 2.0 Sometimes out of the blue firefox just craps out in the middle of a session. Sometimes when I start it, it just shuts down giving me the error whether or not to report it to MS. I wonder if reinstalling FF would eliminate this issue. I really like FF and haven't touched IE for a long time. on a side note:What is a great back up solution something along the lines of Norton Ghost?

any info about the CD? Also does the anti drop function(don't know whats it called but if you drop the laptop it senses that it been dropped and stops the HDD from moving its head, as not to out data at risk) standard on all laptops or not?

(Not really important) I will buy a new laptop come the new school year I'm thinking of an intel because of their transistors 65nm better them AMDs 90nm anyway 2 GB RAM HDD don't care have a 250 GB external has to have a good graphics card inter graded. Now I'm thinking of a Toshiba which will probably have Vista which is ok. Now the questions the CD that the manufacturer supplies is that like an iso of what they have on all laptops merely for when something happens can I burn it for a backup (I know it will only work on the specific laptop brand) Is it wise to uninstall some of the crap sof

That would help if I had the video in my iTunes library, but I don't. I had the video on my iPod and in the Movies section from my I pod in iTunes I specified it as a Music Video...So it was never in my iTunes library to begin with. Therefore I cannot delete it through iTunes. If there was any confusion sorry about that.

sorry no there nothing to be synced it was a personal video which I told iTunes was a music video. Since theres no music video in iTunes I can't delete it or place it back within the movies list.

I was fooling around with my iPod in iTunes and right clicked a video and changed it to music video (via right click>video>video kind) and I cant see it in iTunes anymore. Cant be deleted from ipod(damn) and cant delete it in ipod diskmode (hundreds of files with weird names..will take hours to find it) Can anyone come up with a solution? This is just a home video I converted to an mp4 not bought from iTunes! *to mod:didn't know where to post sorry

Its a small company in my city competitive pricing but theres a limit I can use per month approx 50 GB, and if you go over that limit its 10 per GB...So I don't want to risk it. Something free would be great.

Is there such a program where it can tell me how much I have downloaded per month. A small app which runs in the background telling me how much bandwidth I've used so far?

Hondaboy you would happen to have the msstyle file for that reddragon would you in the themes folder? I dont like spyware

I cant seem to find it on themexp. Looks great whats it called?

I vaguely remember that TSS episode, Bozodog I think your absolutely right the more I think about it. If the cable is insulated how can it work. I saw this site where someone took his window mesh along with cardboard and built something that looked like a radar detector you see on the movies. I'll give that a try it might just work.

Now that I have lured you in here...I have seen videos and some people talk about rapping a RJ45 cable around their cellphone connecting it to the ethernet and having an increase in their wireless signal. Is this true? I have tried it and it doesn't seem to work. You have to open your cell (if its a flip phone) rap the ethernet cord around the bottom part not screen really tight and connect it to the PC its said that the anntana in the phone is a lot stronger then the one on the laptop/PC so you get in theory (at least for me) a better signal which means faster speed when far from the router.

This is the same problem I have connects fine but I can when look at the status its a limited amount of packets sent and received. So I just disable the wireless connection and enable it and it works fine each time.

Correct both powered by USB and no they don't have external transformers. I just recently purchased a new 430 W PSU old one was 350 so a bit more juice. I'm thinking just get a USB hub connect it to the back and go that rout...but I really want to know why these 2 USB ports in the front don't co-operate its really frustrating!

Matt I have the exact same issue I also have soundmax, the left speaker doesn't work unless I also plug it into my mp3 player and its perfect. I have no idea whats wrong but I believe that a new soundcard will fix the problem. Instead of the onboard one that they give you.

after some testting I have found that the back usb ports are excellent I can plug in 2 devices side by side. Only the front 2 usb ports conflict. I can plugin 1 or the other in either usb port but not both. Wierd