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17. November 2011 @ 20:31 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Russ,
Even if we disagree I don't take offense but I happen to agree with you although I thought Toshiba was still good as they use to be. It is good to know that that has changed before I dive in and buy one so thank you for the input which is always good! :)
The B950 is a dual core processor see;
Intels Specs
I need at least a dual core but would like a quad as I also use the notebook with VMware and the extra cores become important there.
I've had good luck with Acer's too and prefer them when buying an inexpensive notebook, I will not buy another HP of course. I'm not a Dell fan but I've been looking at them as well but what bothers me about Dell is their lack of web support. I had a very difficult time trying to find a Insperion IM5030 Athlon II X2 that WorstBuy has to get specs and drivers on so I may scratch them off the list too.
Thanks for the good feedback Russ,
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Stevo,
You're most welcome! I'm just very surprised that it didn't mention that it was a Dual Core. I'm surprised at that, since it would be a selling point. Toshiba started a long downhill slide about 5 years ago, when they made some real cheap junk. I had a lady friend who bought one and within two years, it had lost the LAN and the sound, a lot like the HP & Compaq desktops used to do, all the time. The old K6 Compaq's were some of the best laptops you could buy back in the day. Sony laptops are not worth the high price, as far as I'm concerned. With the Acers, the only thing I've ever had to replace on one is a bad memory stick, or an HDD. They seem to be pretty rugged, and don't have a flimsy feel to them like the Dell Inspirons do.
Russ
Agreed!
However HP seems to be still poorly made and their software is absolutely the worst too. It used to be they had very good hardware solutions and their software has always been their Achilles' heel but now both are bad.
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Acers are very cheap, far moreso than anything else, which makes them great value for money. Common sense dictates there's a reason for the low price. They're not inherently bad for it, but they are cheaply made.
Fore-sure!
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17. November 2011 @ 21:48 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
It just fascinates that someone who criticises Toshiba for quality rates Acer products... Bizarre.
Sam,
Maybe I've just been very lucky with Acer laptops, but the fact is I have owned two of them now, and I rarely ever see one in for repairs. like I said, a memory stick here, or a HDD there. I don't think I have ever seen a major problem with an Acer laptop before. They are well designed, and well made. They are a very comfortable computer to work with, are very light, and very pleasing to the eye. The Toshibas look nice, but are suspect under the hood, and their customer and technical service is non existent! The $425 for a replacement standard 15.6 screen for Nancy, left a pretty bad taste in my mouth too! Especially since I was able to buy a higher quality, Premium screen and install it for less than 1/2 the cost ($200), while making a fair wage for the 20 minute job.
If I was looking for a laptop and was traveling the way I used to, I would opt for one of this model.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215200
Dedicated Ati HD6650M Graphics w/2 GB VDDR3, a perfect 16x9 AR. Max out the system memory at 16GB, and smile a whole heck of a lot! Please notice that it's not an AMD!
Best Regards,
Russ
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18. November 2011 @ 02:23 |
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HP Software is pretty dire I'll give you that. You realise though that failed network adapters and the likes are chipset dependent, and not directly the fault of the laptop manufacturer though?
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18. November 2011 @ 10:38 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
HP Software is pretty dire I'll give you that. You realise though that failed network adapters and the likes are chipset dependent, and not directly the fault of the laptop manufacturer though?
That's not totally true, chipsets can fail due to poor handling and the WiFi controller is not part of the mainboard so it would be more apt to be mishandled.
My HP started to fail just 1+ year after I bought it and although the WiFi nic was the first to go it was not the nic card it was the motherboard/interface at fault. My HDD went next and I know many other people with the same HDD that didn't have problems. A friend of mine with a slightly newer HP though had the same problems as me with exception to his nic card. Other notebook manufactures are using the same chipsets and they do not have the same failure problems, but HP sure has it's track record of failures. That doesn't lead me to chipset manufactures but does lead me to the notebook producer.
Can chipsets be produced poorly? Sure they can but that doesn't mean the fault can't be elsewhere.
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18. November 2011 @ 11:59 |
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Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by sammorris:
HP Software is pretty dire I'll give you that. You realise though that failed network adapters and the likes are chipset dependent, and not directly the fault of the laptop manufacturer though?
That's not totally true, chipsets can fail due to poor handling and the WiFi controller is not part of the mainboard so it would be more apt to be mishandled.
My HP started to fail just 1+ year after I bought it and although the WiFi nic was the first to go it was not the nic card it was the motherboard/interface at fault. My HDD went next and I know many other people with the same HDD that didn't have problems. A friend of mine with a slightly newer HP though had the same problems as me with exception to his nic card. Other notebook manufactures are using the same chipsets and they do not have the same failure problems, but HP sure has it's track record of failures. That doesn't lead me to chipset manufactures but does lead me to the notebook producer.
Can chipsets be produced poorly? Sure they can but that doesn't mean the fault can't be elsewhere.
Mr-Movies,
Most of the peripheral components on the motherboard and associated chips on a lot of HP/Compaq, low cost computers fail because of poor power supplies, and seriously deficient VRM design, and crappy Caps. They all receive their power from the motherboard, anyway. It seems like HP and Compaq were "married" to Bestec PSUs. Some as low as 125w with the higher end having a 250w PSU. In fact, the 125w proved inadequate, so that HP made a kit to convert the 125w to a 150w PSU. I had to install about 10 of those. PITA to get apart too! Before the kit they just replaced one inadequate 125w with another inadequate 125w PSU!
I'm sure you still get an occasional chip failure, or some electronic problem that blows out things on the board, so it's not exactly fair to blame the peripheral for all the failures either! You'll notice that often the failures are in areas that use more power, like video, audio, Wi-Fi. In some cases. even the CPU get's fried.
Best Regards,
Russ
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18. November 2011 @ 13:24 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by Mr-Movies:
Originally posted by sammorris:
HP Software is pretty dire I'll give you that. You realise though that failed network adapters and the likes are chipset dependent, and not directly the fault of the laptop manufacturer though?
That's not totally true, chipsets can fail due to poor handling and the WiFi controller is not part of the mainboard so it would be more apt to be mishandled.
My HP started to fail just 1+ year after I bought it and although the WiFi nic was the first to go it was not the nic card it was the motherboard/interface at fault. My HDD went next and I know many other people with the same HDD that didn't have problems. A friend of mine with a slightly newer HP though had the same problems as me with exception to his nic card. Other notebook manufactures are using the same chipsets and they do not have the same failure problems, but HP sure has it's track record of failures. That doesn't lead me to chipset manufactures but does lead me to the notebook producer.
Can chipsets be produced poorly? Sure they can but that doesn't mean the fault can't be elsewhere.
Mr-Movies,
Most of the peripheral components on the motherboard and associated chips on a lot of HP/Compaq, low cost computers fail because of poor power supplies, and seriously deficient VRM design, and crappy Caps. They all receive their power from the motherboard, anyway. It seems like HP and Compaq were "married" to Bestec PSUs. Some as low as 125w with the higher end having a 250w PSU. In fact, the 125w proved inadequate, so that HP made a kit to convert the 125w to a 150w PSU. I had to install about 10 of those. PITA to get apart too! Before the kit they just replaced one inadequate 125w with another inadequate 125w PSU!
I'm sure you still get an occasional chip failure, or some electronic problem that blows out things on the board, so it's not exactly fair to blame the peripheral for all the failures either! You'll notice that often the failures are in areas that use more power, like video, audio, Wi-Fi. In some cases. even the CPU get's fried.
Best Regards,
Russ
That's another good point Russ that I hadn't considered in my last response.
Great point!,
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20. November 2011 @ 03:32 |
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Well, I've got Win 7 installed. M$ won't let me install AHCI or RAID because the drivers are not digitally signed and the software refuses to load them. Getting the Audio Optical S/PDIF working was a bit of a nightmare, but I finally figured it out, but I still have more questions than I have answers at the moment. I have the Libraries folder open, and there doesn't seem to be a way to close it. It just sits there in the quick launch bar.
There's supposed to be an XP Mode of some kind, and I can't find it. There's also supposed to be some sort of software to check on the performance of the computer, but I haven't found it either.
On the other side of the coin, the Patriot Pyro 60GB SSD seems to work fine. Very fast! Better speed than a lot of them that are running in AHCI Mode. It got real tricky getting it out of AHCI mode after the install. I had to put the old HDD back in it and then it would let me get in the bios to change it back to IDE Mode. Then I put the SSD back in and everything is working fine! One more thing I want to set my folder preferences to Icons, but I can't for the life of me figure it out yet.
Lot's of good stuff here though. I can see numerous ways that Win 7 can save you time, so I'm making progress. LOL!!
Russ
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20. November 2011 @ 09:20 |
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russ, you warming up to win7?
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20. November 2011 @ 10:10 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Well, I've got Win 7 installed. M$ won't let me install AHCI or RAID because the drivers are not digitally signed and the software refuses to load them. Getting the Audio Optical S/PDIF working was a bit of a nightmare, but I finally figured it out, but I still have more questions than I have answers at the moment. I have the Libraries folder open, and there doesn't seem to be a way to close it. It just sits there in the quick launch bar.
There's supposed to be an XP Mode of some kind, and I can't find it. There's also supposed to be some sort of software to check on the performance of the computer, but I haven't found it either.
On the other side of the coin, the Patriot Pyro 60GB SSD seems to work fine. Very fast! Better speed than a lot of them that are running in AHCI Mode. It got real tricky getting it out of AHCI mode after the install. I had to put the old HDD back in it and then it would let me get in the bios to change it back to IDE Mode. Then I put the SSD back in and everything is working fine! One more thing I want to set my folder preferences to Icons, but I can't for the life of me figure it out yet.
Lot's of good stuff here though. I can see numerous ways that Win 7 can save you time, so I'm making progress. LOL!!
Russ
You have to install XP Mode Russ that is why you can't find it.
Download from here
Signed Driver Nonsense
Open a command prompt as an admin and type
bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON
See security risk warning above.
If it doesn't work for whatever reason you can just remove loadoptions with bcedit and switch testsigning off.
bcdedit /deletevalue loadoptions
bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING OFF
You can also use the F8 when booting, like you would to go into SafeMode and turn it off Signed Driver Check temporarily.
Here is another place with several methods to follow
Not sure what you are trying to do with Library files but here is how you map a network drive that isn't indexed.
You can simply index the network files as a workaround.
Add a non-indexed UNC as a library
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1. Create a folder on your hard drive for shares. i.e. c:\share
2. Create another folder in the above share. i.e. c:\share\music
2. Link the Library to this folder.
3. Delete the folder.
4. Use the mklink in an elevated command prompt to make a symbolic link. Name the link the same as the folder you created above.
i.e - mklink /d c:\share\music \\server\music
5. Done. Now you have non-indexed UNC path as a library.
Don't know what exactly you are asking here either "I want to set my folder preferences to Icons" so I don't know what to tell you?
Also another thing that makes life easier that I like is to Click on the "Organize/Layout" toolbar in "Computer" explorer and select "Menu bar" so that you have the Classic style file bar added.
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24. November 2011 @ 13:23 |
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To all who celebrate it, Happy Thanksgiving.
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Indeed! You too fred :)
Happy thanksgiving all.
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24. November 2011 @ 14:50 |
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Originally posted by FredBun:
To all who celebrate it, Happy Thanksgiving.
Originally posted by FredBun:
To all who celebrate it, Happy Thanksgiving.
Same to you, Fred. Tell everybody at there, I wish them all a Happy Thanksgiving.
Warmest Regards,
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Happy thabks giving to those across the pond
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24. November 2011 @ 16:59 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by Deadrum33:
For those who have not upgraded their mobo to SATA3, heres something to look at.
http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShoc...50-_-11242011_2
Deadrum33,
I just bought a Sata III Patriot Pyros, and even without being able to set AHCI Mode, it's still much faster than a Sata II. AHCI will have to wait until the next time I install Win 7 Pro. It Reads at about 430MB/s and Writes about 260MB/s. Win 7 boot up time is about 18-19 seconds. Very fast! Rates a 7.1 in Windows Experience, without AHCI.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a...9867405d26f9070
Happy Thanksgiving,
Russ
I read your experiments a few pages back, glad you have things up and running.
I use a vertex3 60GB and i don't put much stock in that win experience index, but for what its worth it rates 7.7.
Could i ask again why you cant run AHCI mode at the moment? what is your final conclusion after your testing and googling?
Happy turkeys back at you all.
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Originally posted by Deadrum33:
Originally posted by theonejrs:
Originally posted by Deadrum33:
For those who have not upgraded their mobo to SATA3, heres something to look at.
http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShoc...50-_-11242011_2
Deadrum33,
I just bought a Sata III Patriot Pyros, and even without being able to set AHCI Mode, it's still much faster than a Sata II. AHCI will have to wait until the next time I install Win 7 Pro. It Reads at about 430MB/s and Writes about 260MB/s. Win 7 boot up time is about 18-19 seconds. Very fast! Rates a 7.1 in Windows Experience, without AHCI.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a...9867405d26f9070
Happy Thanksgiving,
Russ
I read your experiments a few pages back, glad you have things up and running.
I use a vertex3 60GB and i don't put much stock in that win experience index, but for what its worth it rates 7.7.
Could i ask again why you cant run AHCI mode at the moment? what is your final conclusion after your testing and googling?
Happy turkeys back at you all.
Deadrum33,
When I installed Win 7, it would not accept the AHCI drivers because they weren't digitally signed, so I installed it in IDE Mode. In order to install AHCI, you have to do it at the time you install windows. I've got everything running smoothly and I'm learning to use 7, and I don't want to have to start all over again. Next time I'll install it when I re-do windows the first time.
Right now I'm mad as hell at M$. I love Firefox 8, but none of the add-ons I use work in it. My guess is that the advertisers were complaining to M$ that their ads weren't being seen, so Bill Gate$ won't let you have any ad blockers. It also doesn't allow redirect remover either. I had to go all the way back to ver. 3.6.13 of Firefox so I could use them. I've turned off Updates in FF, but eventually they will install a later version anyway. Capitalistic pigs!
Russ
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Nothing wrong with a little capitalism ;P I do agree though that Microsoft and Mozilla teaming up is basically bad, and completely destroyed the reason that Firefox was better to begin with.
Russ, if you want a really nice browser, I've been using Comodo Dragon lately. It's a free modification of Google Chrome. Comodo is a company that produces an exceptionally good firewall and antivirus(both can be DL'd individually or together as a security suite), and a short while ago they delved into their own browser as well. They have STRONGLY emphasized security and privacy with Comodo Dragon, and there's a list of things they have completely removed from Chrome. This list includes anonymous usage statistics.
It's a bit of a learning process coming over from Firefox myself, but it's essentially Chrome with a different icon and color scheme. Firefox is still more powerful and has more features, but the recent BS with add-ons, and the great many performance and technical problems... Also consider that with 3 or 4 pages open, Firefox frequently touches 1GB of memory usage. I have some 10 or so pages open now, and Dragon/Chrome is sitting at about 100MB...
Also worth mentioning that all of the add-ons, including Ad Blocker Plus and Flashblock, are working just fine.
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I use Iron as it is the same type of alternate to Chrome but will try Comodo as Iron is nothing great. Thanks Jeff!
Happy Turkey day all! :)
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99% of the alternative Chromium(the original application that provides the source-code) builds are nearly identical to Google Chrome. Dragon is no exception. The unique part is what it DOESN'T include. So if you've been using Iron, you really don't lose much moving to Dragon and don't need to learn anything new. Now Firefox lovers like myself might feel a small pinch coming over. Particularly I still don't like how it handles bookmarks. I am a hardcore power surfer at times and the lack of features hurts a bit, but the stability and performance, not to mention the privacy, outweigh my minor gripes.
Oh yes and happy Thankgiving to all, American or not. It's simply a day to be with family and be thankful for what we have. You don't need to be American to appreciate that.
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25. November 2011 @ 09:10 |
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I hate how it doesn't handle bookmarks and agree with you fully. However it doesn't limit sites I can go to and so many other problems FF has these days. I just can't support Firefox anymore.
Here are just some of the problems I've had recently;
Problems with Firefox 7
#1 Some sites do not work at all or you can't navigate once the home page is displayed.
#2 Download sites on multiple tabs creates a problem since there are not handled individually. I had to close FileJunggle download ready to get FileSonic to display download ready link.
#3 WUpload wouldn't allow download link to start downloading and then trying IE I couldn't restart the download because the site thought I was downloading when I was not.
#4 The spell checker gets confused and I loose my flashing bar which shows my text position when I'm correcting mis-spellings.
#5 Realplayer Record Pluggin doesn't work.
#6 I doesn't log you in when you go to a site that it has saved your login in for. Instead it just provides that information in the login boxes. I would prefer it logs you in as that is why you told it to remember the sites login or don't display the login info until you go to login.
#7 It is very slow changing sites or starting a new site.
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I switched to chrome full time when Firefox 3.5 came out due to massive instability problems (tab limit of 3 before application crash), and it does seem more stable, though still not perfect. I do heavily load chrome (40+ tabs regularly) and I may only encounter a crash one or two times a month.
I use firefox for the FlashGot/DownThemAll plugins now, and that's it.
I only ever use IE in a fresh install to download chrome.
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I have an itchy finger :S It wants to click buy LOL! Opinions?
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Sata III SSD
Jeff, thank you! I may have to try Comodo Dragon browser. Firefox is disappointing me and my brother. Granted he only has 2Gb(not for long), but it shouldn't be using a Gigabyte for 3 tabs!
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
.....When I installed Win 7, it would not accept the AHCI drivers because they weren't digitally signed, so I installed it in IDE Mode. In order to install AHCI, you have to do it at the time you install windows. I've got everything running smoothly and I'm learning to use 7, and I don't want to have to start all over again. Next time I'll install it when I re-do windows the first time......
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Have you tried this?
http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable...r-installation/
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