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IBM dead pixel hell

I understand your desire to get the perfectest product out of the box, but dead pixels are not such a big deal to do three returns and waste your and store employee time. My LCD has two dead subpixels (red and blue) in one pixel, a scratch and two tiny nicks in plastic in front of screen (either...
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- Post #9
- Feb 27, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Seller sold a textbook marked: "Professional Review Copy: Not Intended for Sale"

Not intended for resale means that "We ask you not to resell it". That's clear and simple. They have no way to legally prohibit resale, and that's all they can do - ask people not to do this. And people have all the rights to disagree. Anyone who tries to apply ethics to publishers is nuts...
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- Post #35
- Feb 3, 2005
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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amd on btx

AMD on BTX? You must be a fan of solutions that are looking for problems.
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- Post #8
- Jan 29, 2005
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Does the Pentium M 2.13Ghz make sense for high end laptop gaming?

High-end video cards -> a lot of power consumption -> cooling requires making thick notebook -> enough space to put in a fast A64.
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- Post #4
- Jan 20, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Will there be advantages for a SFF with nForce4 & PCIe?

No.
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- Post #2
- Jan 2, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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WHY-OH-WHY

(1.35 - 1.1) / 1.1 = .227 (which I truncated). 15" powerbook is not one inch thick. It says 1.1" for 15" powerbook in Apple specs. In the rest of the post, I refer to "regular" 15" Powerbook - all lower-cost laptops have XGA (which is way too low for me), all higher-cost machines cost too...
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- Post #43
- Dec 30, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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WHY-OH-WHY

That's about 20% thicker. Not unnoticable, but not significant either. And I personally see no way for it to be that much less luggable then Apple model. I don't mind facing oh so horrile quater of inch if the machine is a thousand bucks cheaper and still satisfies *my* requirements.
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- Post #41
- Dec 29, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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AMD Socket 939, DDR2 and PCI-Express

Never. DDR2 requires a new CPU socket. Socket 939 will not have DDR2.
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- Post #10
- Dec 28, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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I want to change from Intel to AMD ......

Currently, you can get GeForce 6800 series for both AGP and PCI-E. This is as high as a sane person might want to go. Their performance is pretty much the same. There is no point in picking in PCI-E "for the future", as more powerful video cards are going to be limited by your CPU, and...
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- Post #5
- Dec 27, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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I want to change from Intel to AMD ......

PCI-E and SATA II are fairly useless on their own, and I find it hard to come up with any sort of computer-related activity that requires support of those technologies (unless we count "my machine supports more technologies then your does" penis measurement). So, what do you want to do with that...
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- Post #2
- Dec 26, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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What is PCI-E technology?

Because certain sleazy companies want gullible customers to pay more for devices that support yet another pointless (E)TLA.
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- Post #7
- Dec 26, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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WHY-OH-WHY

Asus M6Ne. SXGA+ or WXGA (your pick), Pentium M, quite thin, and looks quite well. It does not have next generation video, but then the only machines that do have 9800 or 6800 are tanklike bricks or just vapour. If you were considering Mac, I do not think you are much of a gamer, so I do not see...
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- Post #10
- Dec 21, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Looking for a notebook

It looks like they call it "Z80" in US. As a result, googling for it returns you a pile of old zilog-related crap. Why the hell do companies have to confuse their customers like that? First it was limited only to graphics cards(ATI, Nvidia), then Intel and AMD joined the fray, and now pretty...
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- Post #6
- Dec 15, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Looking for a notebook

2699? I do not know where you are located, but we Canucks can get it for $1750 CAD. Unless I missed some radical USD value change, it should be cheaper in America.
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- Post #4
- Dec 15, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Looking for a notebook

This one is nice, although new and fairly hard to find on display. http://www.asus.com/prog/spec....%20Series&langs=01
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- Post #2
- Dec 15, 2004
- Forum: Laptops

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