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Memory upgrade difficulties

Hey all, I am the owner of a new (refurbished) black Macbook. With memory so cheap, I decided to pick up a four gig kit and max out the memory. I looked up the guide on upgrading the memory from Apple's site. Everything was going great until it came to putting my new RAM in one of the slots...
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- Nov 20, 2008
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Apple
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MST3K reference in this week's The Office?

When they first get to the beach, Michael warns everybody to "Watch out for snakes!" It's a fairly famous riff from MST3K... anyone catch it and think that it was an intentional homage?
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- May 11, 2007
- Replies: 8
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Is Vista "skinnable"?

Hmm, I didn't realize that there were so many skins included with it. I'm assuming these must have been added in for the final version, since I have RC2 and they aren't in there. Do you know of any screenshots out there that show the available skins?
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- Post #3
- Feb 4, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Is Vista "skinnable"?

This is something that I have been wondering for a while: Will we be able to download different themes for Vista like we were able to with XP? As cool as all the transparent window effects are in Vista, I don't reall care too much for the Aero theme as whole; to me it seems kind of clunky and...
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- Feb 4, 2007
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Laptop w/ fingerprint reader?

The ThinkPad Z61m is a 15.4" widescreen w/ fingerprint reader.
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- Post #7
- Sep 21, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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College laptop: Macbook pro?

If you're not an OSX user, why bother going for an expensive MacBook Pro? You can get a really nice Thinkpad T60 for about $1500-1600 with discrete graphics. Then you won't even have to screw around with Bootcamp and less than perfect compatibility with Windows. Plus, it comes with a 3-year...
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- Post #5
- Jul 17, 2006
- Forum: Apple Laptops and Desktops
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Buying a Laptop

To be used for what?
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- Post #2
- Jul 11, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Syncmaster 203B

I'm interested in this monitor too. Anyone know what panel is in it?
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- Post #2
- Jun 28, 2006
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Vista Icon/Font Scaling

So it seems to be scaling all the fonts in a browser window too?
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- Post #4
- May 29, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Icon/Font Scaling

No Vista Beta users out there?
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- Post #2
- May 29, 2006
- Forum: Operating Systems
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General Hayden . . .

The NSA spying stuff is the only thing you can lay on Hayden's lap. If you're looking for who's blame for 9/11 and WMD intelligence failures, look at the FBI and CIA respectively. The NSA did not have anything but perhaps an ancillary roles in these.
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- Post #20
- May 29, 2006
- Forum: Politics and News
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Vista Icon/Font Scaling

This would be a question aimed at the folks who have Beta 2 in their posession already. ;) There are two questions along the same line of thought that I'm looking for answers to: 1) Does the scaling work well for icons/window fonts within windows and on the desktop? 2) Furthermore, does...
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- May 28, 2006
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Current best PSU for around $100?

Agreed. It's extremely quiet too.
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- Post #10
- May 27, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Computer Randomly Restarts

I would put money on it being either the mobo or the power supply, leaning more towards the latter. Make sure you have BSODs turned on... go to the Advanced tab of System Properties in the Control Panel and click on Settings under "Startup and Recovery." Uncheck "Automatically Restart."
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- Post #7
- May 27, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Laptop for college

Will you be bringing your desktop to college? If not, do you plan on bringing your laptop to library, classes, etc.? If you are bringing your desktop, get a light and durable notebook like the ThinkPad X41 (or any brand that makes something small, although I really think you should give the...
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- Post #8
- May 27, 2006
- Forum: Laptops

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