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Post by dolphie on Oct 8, 2009 19:45:02 GMT -5
ya know, I thought of that after I posted.... but wasnt sure how Win7 was gonna be. It will maximize what you have in that mean machine. It is going to be better out of the box than many of the other O/Ses of the latter years. LOL The man in charge of this product line is great. He is making sure it is a stable product before RTM.
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Post by raddy on Oct 8, 2009 20:23:24 GMT -5
Preordered Win7 a while ago (Professional) for half the price! I kind of want Ultimate, but will see if I get any cool upgrade options once I get it. I still think Snow Leopard > all!!!! <<< had to throw that in there Supposedly my company I work for has been testing a Windows 7 image for our laptops! I hope that comes out soon too.
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Post by dolphie on Oct 8, 2009 22:01:03 GMT -5
Preordered Win7 a while ago (Professional) for half the price! I kind of want Ultimate, but will see if I get any cool upgrade options once I get it. I still think Snow Leopard > all!!!! <<< had to throw that in there Supposedly my company I work for has been testing a Windows 7 image for our laptops! I hope that comes out soon too. Well, after seeing you are a cat lover - I can see why you would prefer Snow Leopard. You can have your silly Mac O/Ses - I will stay with the PC environment. There are more flavors with PC than with MackieDoos.
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Post by Turk on Oct 8, 2009 22:55:44 GMT -5
Preordered Win7 a while ago (Professional) for half the price! I kind of want Ultimate, but will see if I get any cool upgrade options once I get it. I still think Snow Leopard > all!!!! <<< had to throw that in there Supposedly my company I work for has been testing a Windows 7 image for our laptops! I hope that comes out soon too. Well, after seeing you are a cat lover - I can see why you would prefer Snow Leopard. You can have your silly Mac O/Ses - I will stay with the PC environment. There are more flavors with PC than with MackieDoos. Ha, I'm a believer and made my fortune on a PC but I’m getting heavy pressure from all my kids, the traitors, the four made the switch from PC to Mac. My youngest is the most disappointing of all - he works for Apple. Although dad is very proud, indulge me, I’m sure I’ve told this story more than once. My youngest passed all of the Apple certifications without attending any Apple course and he is the youngest to ever have passed. His software grade 98%, hardware grade 94%. Apple called him at 18 years old and offered an amazing job, his job title and job description is one word “genius.” Sorry, I’m a proud dad and had to spout off. All kidding aside my next machine will be a Mac Book Pro. I’ll get 20% off but the important thing I’ll get the box stuffed with goodies free. And this if coming from a person that made the following statement at an Apple conference (honestly I practicing tack,) “The best use of a Mac is to punch out the screen and use it a planter box.”
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Post by raddy on Oct 8, 2009 23:04:01 GMT -5
hehe
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Post by dolphie on Oct 9, 2009 1:36:35 GMT -5
Well, after seeing you are a cat lover - I can see why you would prefer Snow Leopard. You can have your silly Mac O/Ses - I will stay with the PC environment. There are more flavors with PC than with MackieDoos. Ha, I'm a believer and made my fortune on a PC but I’m getting heavy pressure from all my kids, the traitors, the four made the switch from PC to Mac. My youngest is the most disappointing of all - he works for Apple. Although dad is very proud, indulge me, I’m sure I’ve told this story more than once. My youngest passed all of the Apple certifications without attending any Apple course and he is the youngest to ever have passed. His software grade 98%, hardware grade 94%. Apple called him at 18 years old and offered an amazing job, his job title and job description is one word “genius.” Sorry, I’m a proud dad and had to spout off. All kidding aside my next machine will be a Mac Book Pro. I’ll get 20% off but the important thing I’ll get the box stuffed with goodies free. And this if coming from a person that made the following statement at an Apple conference (honestly I practicing tack,) “The best use of a Mac is to punch out the screen and use it a planter box.” shhhhh you can be a proud daddy.... but ... don't let the radster know you are swinging Mac. It takes the fun out of ribbing him! It is interesting with Macs. My one cousin is a music file and does a lot with music - he uses Macs. The other one is a photographer and he will not touch a Mac. He prefers the PC environment. I have many friends and some clients who are Mac or Mac/PC. The latest MacBook is supposed be integrated battery such that there is not a user replaceable/removeable battery. It has turned some Macsters off. I still think the Macs are too superficial and I have not liked them. I was at one time Mac certified and could work on any of them. We went Mac over PC (after running with HP Vectors for years) with the Genetics equipment and had so many issues with the Macs it was too sad. (Certified = of course we _are_ talking post Apples, Apple II, Apple IIes, etc, which were similar to the DOS PCs well sorta)
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Post by animal on Oct 9, 2009 10:18:26 GMT -5
ya... no Macs for me.... I like the versatility of these home-made PCs I have, some of which date back to the 80s and still run. Nothing against Macs personally, I just never had one and dont have the urge to re-learn everything. Plus, I have crates and crates of PC parts here.
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Post by raddy on Oct 9, 2009 15:50:46 GMT -5
ya... no Macs for me.... I like the versatility of these home-made PCs I have, some of which date back to the 80s and still run. Nothing against Macs personally, I just never had one and dont have the urge to re-learn everything. Plus, I have crates and crates of PC parts here. You are indeed correct. I'm not really happy with the hardware situation with Mac. I love the OS though. FreeBSD with a great UI (not that crappy X Server that comes with FreeBSD). As far as relearning, using a Mac is easier than Windows , but no need to switch, you can do everything on Windows (thanks to great MS marketing to put them in a dominate situation...) I use, hate to even say this, PC and a MAC. Yeah, A Mac is a PC (It is Intel arch...). My main computer is my Vista ridden laptop I got from my work..... At home, my main personal computer (rarely do I use it) is also Vista. My MacBook Pro gets turned on maybe once a month on average.
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Post by dojray on Oct 11, 2009 2:30:56 GMT -5
I'd like to know what you think of NOD32 - my choice - seems very effective. IP conflicts will do it. Regarding the tools I’ve been using and recommending without ever an incident. Every time Windows updates I run PC PitStop and it’s amazing how much crap Microsoft leaves behind. I also run McAfee but have had pure disaster with Norton. My OS is Vista Ultimate after one update I ran PC PitStop and had over 700 invalid file extensions. I am not impressed with McAfee for the general population - it has gnashed so many client's machines and is so embedded within the registry, it is difficult cleaning it out. I do not like Symantec - except for the Antivirus. I absolutely STRONGLY dislike their Internet Security and 360 suites - having experienced those both taking systems down. I steer people away from "all in one" packages (McAfee, Norton, TrendMicro, Kapersky, etc) as they are jacks of all trades and mess things up more than remedy. I dodged Vista completely. I saw it as a waste of time and categorized it as being WinME. I see the Windows releases as a sinusoidal curve. Peak Tops: Win98SE, WinXP, potentially Win7 the valleys: Win95, WinME, Vista Of course there is a different scenario with the business O/S like NT, 2K, 2K3 etc. I am glad you have had success. You are not typical though. Ask ComputerTalk what they think of those products and you will hear some sad tales! As far as invalid extensions - once again, you are talking about Vista - a half-baked package.
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Post by dolphie on Oct 11, 2009 3:21:36 GMT -5
Although my thoughts on this product are not universally shared, I am not a strong proponent of NOD32. It has allowed infections to occur and it causes anomalies with the system. It does not appear, at this point in time, to stay on top of the latest infections/trends. Since it is the linux/firefox/don't like MS/ geek's AV of choice - some endusers install it, depend upon it and then it fails. I still have it in observation mode. It is still a relatively new product (compared to many of the others) and I am hopeful it will strengthen to the point I can recommend it to clients. I'd like to know what you think of NOD32 - my choice - seems very effective. I am not impressed with McAfee for the general population - it has gnashed so many client's machines and is so embedded within the registry, it is difficult cleaning it out. I do not like Symantec - except for the Antivirus. I absolutely STRONGLY dislike their Internet Security and 360 suites - having experienced those both taking systems down. I steer people away from "all in one" packages (McAfee, Norton, TrendMicro, Kapersky, etc) as they are jacks of all trades and mess things up more than remedy. I dodged Vista completely. I saw it as a waste of time and categorized it as being WinME. I see the Windows releases as a sinusoidal curve. Peak Tops: Win98SE, WinXP, potentially Win7 the valleys: Win95, WinME, Vista Of course there is a different scenario with the business O/S like NT, 2K, 2K3 etc. I am glad you have had success. You are not typical though. Ask ComputerTalk what they think of those products and you will hear some sad tales! As far as invalid extensions - once again, you are talking about Vista - a half-baked package.
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Post by animal on Oct 11, 2009 21:46:42 GMT -5
Well, after some tweaking by Dolphie and I one nite.... which failed to solve the ongoing connection issues.... I decided to experiment on my own. SOOOOO... I grabbed the new SATA drive I had laying here and put a clean install of XP on it. I booted the machine to it and STILL had the network problem... slow or no connection. So, I then disabled the NICs in BIOS, added a NIC of my own and it works fine and fast. So, it seems to be the onboard NICs have something wrong. So, now my main machine has 2 Terrabytes of storage, all fast SATA drives... with high end graphics card(s) and a few gigs of ram, its a screamer again. Of course, the storage machine I put together wouldnt power up today.... but thats a different issue that will get looked at another time
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Post by animal on Oct 13, 2009 15:38:59 GMT -5
And a few days later it is still doing good. All software is reloaded, just doing a few little tweeks here and there as I go along.
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