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Kater

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Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2011, 04:13:43 AM »
Hi - I bought an Acer 17 inch  laptop 3 months ago. Its brilliant, in particular the screen. We also have a Dell desktop and a E-netbook. All good for what they are supposed to do.
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Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2011, 02:55:25 PM »
Well, the desktop basicly a "Sanford & Son" special, :o a really ugly box with a 600 watt Ultra supply, VIA KT-880 MoBo, Athlon XP-3200-"Barton"@1.1Ghz, 1GB DDR-2, SIS-300/305, CMI78??, 6-IDE's and 2 optical DVD's, (don't remember the IDE interface) sounds like an airhandler but it's up time is in years now, ugly, nasty and reliable.  SuSE 10.0/SuSE 11.1

Laptop: Gateway 5214u, Athlon [email protected], 4GB, Radeon HD-3200, WD500GB, DVD,

Wanted a laptop for years and I saw this one as a refurb for an exceptionally good price, punched in the credit card and had it the following day, by hardware spec it looked like a screaming little platform.

My UPS guy dropped it off in the morning and I was totally jazzed, it was out of the box and on initial charge
in less than 5 min...... Patience now... do the initial charge properly.....chomping at the bit and drooling like a kid on Christmas morning, a very long 9 hours.

It was time..wheres the power switch??? oh, in the right hinge, click.......wow that screens bright and look, a most aesthetically pleasing blue gray frame with the BSOD in the center....Ctl+Alt+delete... didn't reboot...
power down.....power up..... same movie..profanity 101 is now in secession...I don't want to return this, open the optical drive and stuff a SuSE11.1 live CD in..power down.....power up...POST screen...copyright, Peter Alivin, loading Linux kernel...Look, a hardware inventory, a welcome screen, yes boot live CD...everything works! AAHAHAHAHA, a driver issue..ha haaaaa!

I powered that puppy down, swapped the Segate320GB out with a WD500GB and loaded SuSE 11.2-64
and although the video driver was a bit "hinkey" it was fine, 11.3 came out a week later with the new FLRGX driver and it's been great, the laptop of my dreams, we've been inseparable over a year and a half now and it hasn’t missed a beat!

This platform got panned badly, Gateway got a black eye over an issue somebody much bigger owned,
all my cad, spice and pc board art work as well as hard drive recording, video editing office and business apps. are done this machine, it also is instrumental in data recovery and forensic work, I couldn’t be happier if I were two people.  All it needed was a functional completed O.S.
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rogerrabbit

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Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2011, 02:42:20 AM »
i have an HP Pavilion dv6 and i/m not satisfied with it. it has defect which i didn't know about when i bought it.
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Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2011, 07:24:42 AM »
Quote from: rogerrabbit on February 28, 2011, 02:42:20 AM
i have an HP Pavilion dv6 and i/m not satisfied with it. it has defect which i didn't know about when i bought it.
Welcome to CH rogerrabbit. Care to share with us what that defect is? overthehill
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jamesb707

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Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2011, 03:16:17 PM »
I am a big believer in building your own system if you have the skills as you have much greater control of the components used . For the average user a name brand machine is ideal as they are virtually ready to use out of the box, are pretty reliable and have the support levels that are really needed
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Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2011, 12:27:39 PM »
March Poll?

How about this: What type of network do you use inside your home? wifi, cat5, fiber, cable, powerline, serial cables.....
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    Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
    « Reply #21 on: March 24, 2011, 11:09:34 AM »
    I build my own PCs, 3 of which are built. Here are my specs: The PIII is a Dell from 1999 with upgraded parts and the T9800 is a 15" Macbook Pro.

    1GHz PIII, 512mb RAM, 64mb Ti4200 AGP, 6GB IDE, 98SE
    2GHz P4, 768mb RAM, 128mb FX5200 AGP, 60+20GB IDE, XP SP3
    2.2GHz dual core E2200, 2GB RAM, 512mb GF8400GS PCIe, 80GB SATA, 400W PSU, XP SP3
    3.0GHz dual core E8400, 3GB RAM, 1GB GTS250 PCIe, 160+500GB SATA, 600W PSU, 7-64 Ultimate
    2.93GHz dual core T9800, 4GB RAM, 512mb GF9600/256mb GF9400, 320GB SATA, OS X 10.6/7-64 Ultimate
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    Knicksbball

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    Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
    « Reply #22 on: March 28, 2011, 03:37:46 PM »
    I have a new HP Pavilion DV7.  My old HP laptop 9000 expired - dark screen - due to overheating.  Nice design flaw there HP!
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    Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
    « Reply #23 on: March 28, 2011, 03:46:50 PM »
    Quote from: Knicksbball on March 28, 2011, 03:37:46 PM
    I have a new HP Pavilion DV7.  My old HP laptop 9000 expired - dark screen - due to overheating.  Nice design flaw there HP!
    How old is that HP laptop 9000?  Info at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=324377&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=324375&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1098 gives me them impression it may date back to 2003.  So, that's pretty old. 
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    Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
    « Reply #24 on: March 28, 2011, 03:47:28 PM »
    You're a Knicks fan and you're complaining about a dark screen? You've got other things to be concerned with ;D

    Welcome to the forum :)
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    Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
    « Reply #25 on: March 29, 2011, 12:57:08 PM »
    1x Acer Aspire E500 Desktop    (Basic Specs: 3 Ghz Pentium4 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB disk & ATI X200 graphics)
    1x Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop    (Basic Specs: 2.1 Ghz Pentium dual-core CPU, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB disk space)
    1x HP Pavilion dv1000 Laptop   (Basic Specs: 1.9 Ghz Pentium M CPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB disk space)

    And 2 that are rarely used...
    Compaq Presario 5000 Desktop
    Acer TravelMate 530 Laptop

    These are the 5 computers in the house...Mine is the HP laptop. So I cast 3 votes, 1 for Dell, 1 for Acer and 1 for HP/Compaq.
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    Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
    « Reply #26 on: March 29, 2011, 05:47:49 PM »
    Quote from: Allan on March 28, 2011, 03:47:28 PM
    You're a Knicks fan and you're complaining about a dark screen? You've got other things to be concerned with ;D

    Welcome to the forum :)

     ;D    ;D
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      Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
      « Reply #27 on: April 05, 2011, 08:00:08 PM »
      Me. I have custom built pc though I have a spare of Acer notebook. :)
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      Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
      « Reply #28 on: April 05, 2011, 09:18:22 PM »
      i got an unfamous brand.
      but it was only used for working stuff.
      and it's cheap. ;D
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      Re: February Poll - What brand of computer do you have?
      « Reply #29 on: April 10, 2011, 12:00:32 AM »
      No March Poll? No April Poll?

      Run out of ideas?  ;D
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