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Started by Admiral Yi, April 05, 2009, 03:39:48 PM

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Grey Fox

Atleast you can move WoW.
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viper37

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 05, 2009, 03:49:26 PM
Thanks veep.

Check out what my yahoo search came up with. :D

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you got to love these ads :P
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If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

viper37

Quote from: Syt on April 06, 2009, 12:01:18 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on April 05, 2009, 04:30:17 PM
Speaking Computer, I bought a new Case yesterday.

http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/product.php?product_id=2810

Nice case. I'll be putting an additional 1T HD into my new Thermaltake Armor MX this week, so I'm curious how it goes - supposedly it's very easy:


no screws, only the brackets.  It's wonderful :)
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Syt

Quote from: viper37 on April 06, 2009, 10:23:53 AM
no screws, only the brackets.  It's wonderful :)

:yes:

Then I can also finally migrate my old "My Files" folder from my old PC. I like having one small HD or partition for the OS, one for software, and a third one for files (downloads, movies, pictures etc.), plus an external drive for backup.
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Barrister

Quote from: viper37 on April 06, 2009, 10:23:53 AM
no screws, only the brackets.  It's wonderful :)

Sounds like my Mac Pro.  In order to add an extra harddrive you literally just slide the drive in - you don't even connect any cables. :wub:
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Syt

Quote from: Barrister on April 06, 2009, 10:52:58 AM
Quote from: viper37 on April 06, 2009, 10:23:53 AM
no screws, only the brackets.  It's wonderful :)

Sounds like my Mac Pro.  In order to add an extra harddrive you literally just slide the drive in - you don't even connect any cables. :wub:

sounds more like a "computer" for amateurs, not pros. :P
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DontSayBanana

Quote from: Syt on April 06, 2009, 10:58:39 AM
sounds more like a "computer" for amateurs, not pros. :P

Spec-wise, the Mac Pro is one of the heaviest hitters on the market. I'd have one, except it's also got one of the heaviest-hitting price tags.
Experience bij!

Barrister

Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 06, 2009, 11:13:51 AM
Quote from: Syt on April 06, 2009, 10:58:39 AM
sounds more like a "computer" for amateurs, not pros. :P

Spec-wise, the Mac Pro is one of the heaviest hitters on the market. I'd have one, except it's also got one of the heaviest-hitting price tags.

I'm not sure I'd buy another Mac Pro in 3-4 years (or whatever) as it really is expensive and overkill, but spec-wise and design wise it is far and away the nicest computer I have ever owned.  Its the only computer I've ever owned where the internals of the case are even beautiful and well thought out.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

viper37

Quote from: Barrister on April 06, 2009, 10:52:58 AM

Sounds like my Mac Pro.  In order to add an extra harddrive you literally just slide the drive in - you don't even connect any cables. :wub:
still got the cables to connect, but 30 seconds of work is hardly a sweat.  And we don't pay twice what the computer is worth :P
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

DontSayBanana

Quote from: Barrister on April 06, 2009, 11:15:54 AM
I'm not sure I'd buy another Mac Pro in 3-4 years (or whatever) as it really is expensive and overkill, but spec-wise and design wise it is far and away the nicest computer I have ever owned.  Its the only computer I've ever owned where the internals of the case are even beautiful and well thought out.

Indeed. I've been drooling over them since I found out that the current gen comes standard with eight physical processing cores.
Experience bij!

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Alatriste on April 06, 2009, 12:53:36 AM
And I will add another comment: if you only want to read pdfs, don't use the Adobe reader, it's the worst piece of bloatware ever. Personally I use FoxIt, but there are many other pdf readers much smaller and faster than Adobe's.
Too late. :(

derspiess

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2009, 01:47:11 PM
Quote from: Alatriste on April 06, 2009, 12:53:36 AM
And I will add another comment: if you only want to read pdfs, don't use the Adobe reader, it's the worst piece of bloatware ever. Personally I use FoxIt, but there are many other pdf readers much smaller and faster than Adobe's.
Too late. :(

You could always uninstall the Adobe Reader & install Foxit.  I've used Foxit for a couple years now & it runs much better for me than the Adobe product.
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: derspiess on April 06, 2009, 01:59:01 PM
You could always uninstall the Adobe Reader & install Foxit.  I've used Foxit for a couple years now & it runs much better for me than the Adobe product.
After schlepping the download for a couple hours I'm not inclined to repeat the procedure.  I'll stand pat.

DontSayBanana

Quote from: Admiral Yi on April 06, 2009, 02:19:25 PM
After schlepping the download for a couple hours I'm not inclined to repeat the procedure.  I'll stand pat.

:huh: I'd scrap the Adobe Reader in a heartbeat, just to get rid of the horrible memory mismanagement. No system with at least 512 MB of RAM should lag for more than a few seconds on a PDF file.
Experience bij!

Admiral Yi

Quote from: DontSayBanana on April 06, 2009, 03:40:17 PM
:huh: I'd scrap the Adobe Reader in a heartbeat, just to get rid of the horrible memory mismanagement. No system with at least 512 MB of RAM should lag for more than a few seconds on a PDF file.
I'm probably going to use it a dozen times a year.  Given that fact a couple seconds lag doesn't seem so bad compared to another mongo download.