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Dec 2nd, 2004, 08:00 PM
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| OK I'm here... snid, rfinprc, bakerjc...? Where are you...? Kinda quiet in here isn't it...  Religion is like a huge dog. If it's yours it's very friendly and comforting, but it scares the heck out of everyone else.  |
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Dec 2nd, 2004, 08:37 PM
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| How's the TV? |
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Dec 2nd, 2004, 09:10 PM
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| Waiting... HD cable comes tomorrow as do long cables to connect it to the AV stack that's hidden away. Bought a new DVD player that upscales in the digital domain and puts out an HDMI signal... Now I just need to find the $$$ for a 33ft HDMI cable...! No Monster cables for me, not at the start anyway..! Religion is like a huge dog. If it's yours it's very friendly and comforting, but it scares the heck out of everyone else. |
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Dec 2nd, 2004, 09:12 PM
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| It was worth a try, anyway.  In a rare PC defending moment, allow me to say that Sony's industrial design is not that bad. Certainly not up to Apples, but it's pretty darn good for a mass-market PC. I've got one of the Z-series laptops, which I don't think they make any more. It's not offensive. A little schizophrenic on where they decided to place things like ports, but I'm not ashamed to carry it around. The only negative about it is that they used cheap paint / plastic for the button below the trackpad. It started to flake, looking like it was a protective cover starting to come off. So, I tried to pull the protective cover off, but, there was no protective plastic, it was paint. So, now, the button is mostly white instead of silver.Sony's new, super thin laptop looks great in pictures. But, they pulled a ton of stuff out of it to make it that thin. |
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Dec 2nd, 2004, 09:23 PM
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| I had a Sony Vaio mini desktop tower when we first came over here. It was one of the few PCs with video editing for not much money. It was OK in terms of design too for the time. The only problem was the mini tower design didn't allow space for expansion so first I paid $600 for an external SCSI CD burner (1x of course) and then had to buy a new (ugly) full tower case to put in an extra HD. Now that I've gone to Macs, it is reborn in it's small case and lives in the basement. I used to be needed to download dive computer data, but now that a friend has written a Mac program to log dives I almost never turn it on. The Sony laptops do look pretty cool until you see the 'docking station' that contains things like the CD/DVD drive, the monitor port and other essentials like that and which is twice as thick as the laptop..! On the Mac vs PC front, does anyone else see the striking similarity to the recent election. The Mac / Dems can't understand why the PC / Repubs just don't "get it", why there are so many who just blindly follow the crowd and the PC / Repubs think the Mac / Dems are all fanatics who are frothing at the mouth... It's kind of self-fulfilling too because the more they look on us with scorn, the more exasparated we get that they don't understand..! Not saying that all Mac owners are Democrats and vice versa (although it holds for CEOs) but you get my drift... Religion is like a huge dog. If it's yours it's very friendly and comforting, but it scares the heck out of everyone else. |
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Dec 3rd, 2004, 12:12 AM
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| My only beefs with Macs are the inflated price of hardware and peripherals. Plus, try to build your own. I know it can be done, but nowhere as easy as building your own PC. Here's what I put together for ~2K. - Abit IC7-MAX 3 motherboard with onboard 5.1 sound chip, gigabit LAN, 800mhz system bus - Intel 3.0 GHz CPU - 1 GB matched Corsair DDR RAM - 2 Western Digital 72GB SATA Drives w/ 8MB cache each configured RAID(0) - 1 Western Digital 250 GB special edition 10,000 rpm IDE Drive w/ 8 MB cache - Plextor 708A 40X/8X CD/DVD burner - Samsung 52X CD/DVD drive - Floppy Drive - Coolermaster Wavemaster cast aluminum case w/ 5 cooling fans (and cool blue neon lights) |
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Dec 3rd, 2004, 12:19 AM
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| Oooh Rhaaa! Rick's PC is takin' Names and Kickin' Ass. Missing my buddies Dan, Ed, and Diane but glad I have three angel buddies , And on a quest to Right Secco's Wrongs |
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Dec 3rd, 2004, 01:54 AM
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| What does any of this mean? But, hey, neon lights...  I guess it's cheating to walk into a store and walk out 5 minutes later with a system made up of all top shelf parts. I almost glossed over the "special edition" hard drive. I wish I had a special edition hard drive. |
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Dec 3rd, 2004, 02:03 AM
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| Mixed SATA & IDE drives...?  Does it have optical audio I/O to go with that 5.1 chip..? Only one CPU..?  Isn't it fun to have this thread up and running again..!  Religion is like a huge dog. If it's yours it's very friendly and comforting, but it scares the heck out of everyone else. |
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Dec 3rd, 2004, 02:10 AM
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| ... and here's what it looks like (neon lights are off in this picture)  Actually, the title on the page I found that picture is oddly appropriate..! http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/lorenz/colossus.htm Religion is like a huge dog. If it's yours it's very friendly and comforting, but it scares the heck out of everyone else. |
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Dec 3rd, 2004, 02:14 AM
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| Triple post..! Rick, Go here, read this... http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/36120.html and this... http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/37806.html Religion is like a huge dog. If it's yours it's very friendly and comforting, but it scares the heck out of everyone else. |
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Dec 3rd, 2004, 02:55 AM
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| The SATA setup holds programs, the EIDE drive is for data, the motherboard has optical I/O and 2 sets of analog I/O for the sound chip along with 6 usb2 ports and three firewire ports. One brain is enough for now thank you. |
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