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HD companies are always playing musical chairs in terms of reliability and reputation. A few years ago, Maxtor was trash, Seagate was OK, Quantum was better, and WD was king. Then, a bit later, IBM was trash (the DeathStar 75GXP series), Quantum …
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Yeah, it will work. Make sure you have a backup, though. WD drives are fairly good, but not the best. I would say they are about on par with Maxtor, with IBM/Hitachi being better and Seagate being the best, among consumer IDE drives. Don't know ab…
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Quote: Originally posted by hmurchison Motorola is dead, Apple has been burned by this company too much. I say good riddance. They've been screwing Mac users for almost 2 freakin' decades with delays and underperforming processors. Heh. S…
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Actually, the iPod earphones are considered to be pretty mediocre. Probably as bad as Aiwas, which are indeed pretty bad. That said, if you ask on the ArsTechnica agora or some other computer trading spot where there are a lot of iPod owners, you…
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No, however i doubt an Aibo would be much of a replacement for a real animal. It's a neat toy though.
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It's nothing new. I remember a few years ago Meader was babbling about his 'encrypted video stream from Apple HQ in Cupertino' where Apple would show him and his 'reporters' all the top secret new stuff. Ha. I dunno about Meader leaving MOSR. …
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Quote: Originally posted by Anders the White I you can settle with a superdrive and a 15 incher I can beat that offer. http://www.computerstore.uci.edu Wow. That's an amazing price..
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I can't live without two buttons and a scrollie, but my friend's Pro mouse is showing the early signs of a wonky cable. Apparently Jonathan Ives thought that cable strain reliefs (or thicker cable) was ugly, and this is the price that is to be paid.
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^^ Man, i'm so tired of hearing 'IBM's are bad.. they always die, blah blah'. IBM had a bad batch of drives (the 60 and 75GXP models) a few years ago, which did have serious problems. The current models are several generations apart from these prob…
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The idea of using video game consoles is interesting because such consoles are often sold below cost by the manufacturers, who hope to make the money back on games. So technically, you're getting your hardware below cost, which doesn't happen with d…
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Here is the app you want: http://xcdroast.org/ It uses cdparanoia to do error-corrected cd audio rips. It runs in Apple's X11 environment, but works very well. Cheers, -robo
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That is simply freaky.
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Quote: Originally posted by Eskimo Nice thing about Alienware is that if you know something about PC components you can pick out exactly the components you want and have them assemble it for you. Of course you pay for it. I thought the nice …
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i often think it would be fun to be the leader of a cult for a day. ...I'd wear New Balance sneakers, faded jeans, a black turtleneck, and little oval glasses...
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Alienware's stuff doesn't look nearly as good in person as it does on their site. The cases (and keyboards and mice spraypainted to match) look sort of cool, but they are actually very tacky and cheap. I've seen their 'Dragon' case and it looks like…
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^^ cool. It might cover Steve's jet fuel for the day -robo
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I think what i did with the reading comprehension questions was to read the paragragraph very quickly (skimming it), then read the questions. Then you have a decent idea where to look to answer the questions. Try to form the answer in your head, the…
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I got an 800 in the verbal and a 7xx (i can't remember) in Math. Came out to 99th and 98th percentile, respectively. Not that it was any use to me whatsoever. -robo
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bbbbbbut.... who kicked the US team's ass in the Olympics? (to be honest, it was a very close game, not an ass kicking. But we still won ) -robo
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^^ ha ha. My views on these issues are boring, predictable, and Liberal, so i won't bother posting. -robo