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« on: December 30, 2007, 09:19:47 AM » |
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Whats good? I have 2007's expense budget from a client with NOTHING put on it!  My Lenovo laptop screen has lines running through it, and has been a faithful soldier, but my smaller, newer, allegedly better Lenovo is dead again (2nd time - wont power up!  ) I prefer laptops for their lack of whirring sounds, I dont want Vista, its ghey. Im looking at that mini Asus notebook, so I can plug it into a 21" monitor I have going spare. How much ram do I need in the modern day? I currently have 756, which seems ok. My HD is 40gb, which was full a long time ago. SUGGESTIONS GENTLEMEN! |
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« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2007, 10:15:51 AM » |
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Samsung make good laptops and a fair few manufacturers are still offering XP due to their worries about Vista. If you get stuck with vista but have an XP serial number, PM me as I have something that will help you  |
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« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2007, 10:38:11 AM » |
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Samsung make good laptops and a fair few manufacturers are still offering XP due to their worries about Vista. If you get stuck with vista but have an XP serial number, PM me as I have something that will help you I dont want to buy anything Korean. Im Jap or Taiwanese on this one! as for the XP thing - did you forget where I reside?  |
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« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2007, 11:41:10 AM » |
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Ah yeah, good point!
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« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2007, 09:57:58 AM » |
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I went to have a look today.
Desktops and notebooks seem to be around the same price these days, and specs seem to be about the same.
Whats a SATA drive, any difference over an IDE model?
I was looking at a 160gb/1gb ddr/20inch monitor/forgot the CPU - Intel Duo think/seperate GFX card 25mb
It was a very nice monitor, and case. Both 'Apple white' according to the label, and it was a silent fan.
The price, including a real copy of vista, was 5050rmb = 342gbp.
Does that sound about right price wise. I just want an office machine, and somewhere to store my pr0n.
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« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2007, 10:02:49 AM » |
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Chris will also be EXCITED to hear that many of the top players in the Chinese PC market - Asus, Acer, Dell, HP, Haier, etc etc are actually offering LINUX operating systems instead of Windows XP/Vista!
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« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2007, 07:52:36 PM » |
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Whats a SATA drive, any difference over an IDE model?
SATA's a new interface that replaces the old PATA (IDE) interface. The interface itself is nice and quick, but while the actual drives are quicker, they aren't the leap some nutters make them out to be. I was looking at a 160gb/1gb ddr/20inch monitor/forgot the CPU - Intel Duo think/seperate GFX card 25mb
The price, including a real copy of vista, was 5050rmb = 342gbp.
£342? In Chinesia? It's a decent price for a machine, but 160GB/1GB seems a wee bit sub-par for that money these days, especially in the Glorious PRC. Of course, you know what's doing that to the price, don't you? Vista. </bait> |
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We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
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« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2008, 02:17:54 AM » |
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Whats a SATA drive, any difference over an IDE model?
SATA's a new interface that replaces the old PATA (IDE) interface. The interface itself is nice and quick, but while the actual drives are quicker, they aren't the leap some nutters make them out to be. I was looking at a 160gb/1gb ddr/20inch monitor/forgot the CPU - Intel Duo think/seperate GFX card 25mb
The price, including a real copy of vista, was 5050rmb = 342gbp.
£342? In Chinesia? It's a decent price for a machine, but 160GB/1GB seems a wee bit sub-par for that money these days, especially in the Glorious PRC. Of course, you know what's doing that to the price, don't you? Vista. </bait> a bit subpar? What should I be looking at for the same amount of money in the UK? This machine was brilliant white. It looked the bollox, and was silent. Vista was in Chinese, I was trying to negotiate with them to NOT give me Vista and give me an empty box, then id install XP. |
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« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2008, 10:57:38 PM » |
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Well, I know PC World (urgh) are doing a PC with a 20 inch monitor, 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive for £399 at the minute, which is basically twice the RAM and HDD space. And that's PC World, in the UK.
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Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive
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« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2008, 12:52:18 AM » |
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Well, I know PC World (urgh) are doing a PC with a 20 inch monitor, 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive for £399 at the minute, which is basically twice the RAM and HDD space. And that's PC World, in the UK.
That is a bargain. I think its because its a brand name (Haier) that the price is high. Further up in the building there were some DIY jobs that were very cheap. I should go back and have a look. |
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