Computer Jargon

[Madaz]

lol cubes memories ... i think u mean 5 1/4" floppies

have a look Here or Here

[Cubes]

lmao yes.. 3/4" were the small bastards.

[Cubes]

INDIANAPOLIS 500 - THE SIMULATION

http://www.lemonamiga.com/?game_id=561

Damn I used to play this day in day out.

[Ryanrb25]

hey

just wondering, this may sound like the most stupidest question..but

i bought an acer 4070 laptop, its got 2ghz processor, 1 gb ram, 100gb hard drive...etc.etc

is there any way i can upgrade everything in the future? like ram and harddrive? I use it for CAD and INVENTOR and general internet stuff, inventor give it a run for its money....it still copes very well but in the future i may want more...

so yea simple question....can i upgrade this like a normal desktop computer?

[Madaz]

lmao yes.. 3/4" were the small bastards.

sorry to do this again 3 1/4"

hey

just wondering, this may sound like the most stupidest question..but

i bought an acer 4070 laptop, its got 2ghz processor, 1 gb ram, 100gb hard drive...etc.etc

is there any way i can upgrade everything in the future? like ram and harddrive? I use it for CAD and INVENTOR and general internet stuff, inventor give it a run for its money....it still copes very well but in the future i may want more...

so yea simple question....can i upgrade this like a normal desktop computer?

yes but if your laptop is under warranty i highly suggest not touching it

[Cubes]

lmfao.

I don't even have a 3 1/4 drive anymore.

[L3nny]

lmfao.

I don't even have a 3 1/4 drive anymore.

I thought it was 3.5" and 5.25" discs.

[Bl4cK32]

lol...it is

[Cubes]

yes it is. lmao.

Shows how much attention/reading/thinking I was paying.

[Bl4cK32]

Anyone here tried Vista yet, and had it not work at all?

I cant even seem to get it into windows after finishing the setup it throws up the blue screen then reboots saying "Installation incomplete. Please reinstall"

Ive tried a fresh format install, as well as the upgrade from within windows....both shit it and wont run.

Funny thing is i can get vista running fine via VMware...

wtf is going on....

[Cubes]

lol I've had it install on an 4.5yr old Nforce 2 AMD computer and it runs perfectly fine.

Good thing for the 30day Vista Install trial. Wouldn't that just piss you off. 6months ago spend a heap on the latest hardware and vista locks BSOD's with it.

[Pauly33GTS-t]

got enterprise edition with ultimate installed.

runs nice on comp at home. wouldnt touch it if ur comp cost less than 2.5g retail and is relatively new.

good feature is its practically hacker proof. instead of keepping important windows system cache in predicatable parts in memory, its randomly places it all over ur ram without losing speed and making it heaps hard to get to and currupt, etc.

[Bl4cK32]

got enterprise edition with ultimate installed.

wouldnt touch it if ur comp cost less than 2.5g retail and is relatively new.

good feature is its practically hacker proof.

would call both of those statements ignorant to say the least.

As cubes said hes had it running on his setup fine, and my system, only new within the last 5 months wont finalize the installation.

Hacker proof...dont make me laugh...

They say these things as a marketing ploy like they do with all other ones before it. Xp was supposed to be more secure than previous version, but theres always someone out there with a death wish against bill/M$ that wants to show how ignorant people are...

Its the newer systems that are seeming to have more trouble than others atm, but give it time im sure they will sort out issues. By that time im sure that Vienna will be out and running...

[Nightcrawler]

I have had RC2 running dual boot on my home PC and it works perfectly.

Have just installed Home Premium on a new clients machine (X2 3800) and it runs a dream - only took around 20 minutes to install too!

I would do scans on your ram to see if that is the cause. Quite often is with MS installs.

[Cubes]

2.5g is a touch excessive. Is that with software?.

Retail for just under 2k u can get a decent amd x2 or intel core 2duo, 2gb ram, 320gb sata II, nvidia 7900gs, 19" lcd, dvdburner, case/psu, keyboard, mouse, altec 3 piece speakers. But without software.

To reduce the price..

$160 odd less for 1gb instead of 2,

$100 less for a slower vid card

$30 less for a 250gb sataII

$50 less for a slightly slower cpu

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$340 so totalling a system worth ~$1600 you could get something that will easily run vista and the odd game without any issues. + software.

Its minimum requirement of 512mb is quite silly, I've tried for my own curiosity.

768mb I feel is the absolute bare minimum if you want reasonable performance/prettyness.

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Bl4ck32... Give memtest another hit overnight (loop test 5 & 8). Just in case.

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I'll be throwing it on my oldies system in the next few days to see how they like it.

(Core 2 Duo E6400, 1gb Kingston 667, Intel m/board, 7300GT) That system cost next to nothing to build.

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Andrew, on the note of vista have you see the nephew widget thats an Internode costomer has slapped together?

http://www.madfellas.com/internode/nephew.gadget

[Pauly33GTS-t]

why is every1 quick to critisize me. if u want the mininum bare basics to run ultimate fine. if u want to have a good experience with it then as i said 2.5gs. also ultimate does have a LARGE improvement of security and at the moment is pretty much hacker proof, not from ur stupid nerd geek making a virus with 15 lines of code to make ur AV software popup, but from someone actually accessing your personal files thru tampering with windows and finding values in RAM. black ignorance isnt bliss.

[Pauly33GTS-t]

"The UK Green Party says that Vista's DRM requirements will force many unnecessary hardware upgrades. Quoting: 'There will be thousands of tonnes of dumped monitors, video cards, and whole computers that are perfectly capable of running Vista — except for the fact they lack the paranoid lock down mechanisms Vista forces you to use.

That's an offensive cost to the environment. Future archaeologists will be able to identify a "Vista Upgrade Layer" when they go through our landfill sites.'"

read this.

[Cubes]

why is every1 quick to critisize me. if u want the mininum bare basics to run ultimate fine. if u want to have a good experience with it then as i said 2.5gs. also ultimate does have a LARGE improvement of security and at the moment is pretty much hacker proof, not from ur stupid nerd geek making a virus with 15 lines of code to make ur AV software popup, but from someone actually accessing your personal files thru tampering with windows and finding values in RAM. black ignorance isnt bliss.

Well 2g is pretty close to 2.5g. But you could scrape through and save a few hundred and still experience vista in all its glory if your not so much in to games, not every one is.

If your 2.5g system is with software then yes its on the mark, if not then it is a touch expensive. BUT retail vary's so damn much.

~8-9years ago when I was a partner in a computer business it was often the case we had to buy from interstate in bulk as it was a hell of a lot cheaper than buying here in Adelaide. Adelaide prices even without markup you'd be paying very close to what competitors were selling 'retail'. Unsure if things have changed since then.

[Bl4cK32]

why is every1 quick to critisize me. if u want the mininum bare basics to run ultimate fine. if u want to have a good experience with it then as i said 2.5gs. also ultimate does have a LARGE improvement of security and at the moment is pretty much hacker proof, not from ur stupid nerd geek making a virus with 15 lines of code to make ur AV software popup, but from someone actually accessing your personal files thru tampering with windows and finding values in RAM. black ignorance isnt bliss.

A 'Vista Capable' PC will require at least an 800MHz processor, 512MB of system memory, a DirectX 9 capable graphics card, a 40GB hard drive with at least 15GB of free space, a DVD drive, and audio and internet capabilities.

The only extra requirements for a 'Vista Premium Ready' PC are a 1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1GB of Ram and a graphics card with 128MB of onboard memory capable of supporting Windows Aero2.

An Aero2 compatible card is a DirectX 9-class graphics processor that supports WDDM, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32 bits per pixel, and 64MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor less than 1,310,720 pixels.

128MB of graphics memory will be required to support a single monitor at resolutions from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels, or 256MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor at resolutions higher than 2,304,000 pixels.

At most, the typical consumer with a PC even a few years old is only looking at buying a new graphics card and some extra memory.

90% of people who "upgrade" to vista arnt going to run out and dump the 2.5g they spent 6 months ago to just use vista.

Virii and or hacks are out and will be well spread within 6 months anyway, and by that time the 2.5k system u refer to will be out of date.

Its not going to make the internet faster, or 90% of programs people are using now. In fact most gamers are the ones suffering atm, due to lack of driver support from Nivida.

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Ive had Vista installed and working fine via Vmware?

[kralster]

Bah skylines are bad for the enviroment as well.

Espicially when we "upgrade" them and run fake cats. That shit ain't good for the enviroment.