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Quote: Originally posted by kim kap sol Getting a rev B does not mean you'll have less problems that if had gotten a rev A. There have been many cases where rev B or C models were worse than the rev A model. I think that's exactly what…
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check out the Orinoco WaveLan Gold/Silver cards. You can get one on ebay for ~30$ and i've heard of those working, since the airport card is just a recased version of those without an internal antenna. there are also some usb wireless adapters, fr…
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first revision products always seem to suck. this isn't an excuse, just a statement, and it applies to lots of products, not just computers. even apple didn't really get the mac right until the mac plus. let's name recent 1st revs without a bun…
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In Cincinnati, where I lived for a bit, I read they are really deploying internet-over-power-lines, and they just started with phone service over power lines. You plug a $30 box into any outlet in the house and have internet/phone service. Their c…
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Quote: Originally posted by blingem So the consensus is don't buy a macbook? eh, now i'm thinking why not buy it? 1k isn't really that much money and i don't see spending it on something else changing your life that much.
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Quote: Originally posted by G_Warren Thanks again for the info - it is a PowerBook or nothing - yours thoughts are very similar to my own - I'm not looking at a MacBook now, nice though it is. The PowerBook is cheap, matches my screen, and the po…
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For a while when I was younger I had this dream where I would be digging in the back yard and then we'd strike orange marmalade (like oil, strike). Then the next thing was we would be overlooking this giant pit of orange marmalade and I was thinkin…
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Quote: Originally posted by kim kap sol Talking about Meroms and Yonahs with Isreal raging war ridiculously is a bit...odd. Don't wait for Meroms...wait for Lebanon-Killer...it's sure to be a real blast. listening to music while a war …
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sorry for not helping you justify, but don't get the computer. that money could be much better used for other things at this point in your life. and when stuff comes up, you don't want debt.
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Couple of old G3 questions: Has anyone heard of hard drives overheating and busting because of the hard drive enclosure? I want to add a whopper to my G3. How about iLife '05 or '06, anyone running these on their old iMac? just a bit curio…
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I'd say for your needs you wouldn't notice the difference between whatever router you get. Here's a decent one on ebay for $26 shipped http://cgi.ebay.com/NETGEAR-RP614-Ca...QQcmdZViewItem that one is bound to work for the next 10 years.
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Quote: Originally posted by Splinemodel Apolgies for being an engineer. If I made a subtle reference to relief efforts in the balkans, I'm sure you would take in a different stride than the rest of us would. Hah, you made me laugh out loud. …
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Quote: Originally posted by Splinemodel THe only case I can think of where a computer slows down over time is if conductor drift is allowed to occur in the clock or PLL, subsequently slowing down the clock. The synchronous logic that makes up th…
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Anyone here use prepaid? The European model of short calls and lots of text messages makes prepaid work great, and keeps a cell phone from being as expensive as cable internet.
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Repairing permissions and clearing caches tends to speed things up, as does doing the "reset safari" every month or two.