Help with New Laptop

evofire · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject:

I back the Centrino too. Make sure its Pentium M and not Celeron M.

And depending if AMD performs well or not, a AMD Turion64 might be good. Those are coming out soon, though won't be available from Dell(Dell is Intel only).

Is · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject:

actually /. had a story the other day saying that Dell was considering using AMD for some of their systems Wink

hopefully that's for their desktops and not just servers
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evofire · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

Its almost 100% servers. They have been using AMD for awhile, just not sold to the public. They only do it when companies order a large enough amount and requests to be AMD... I think they did Opteron servers and some XP desktops.

Is · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/10/1313245&tid=142
my bad, it's only if enough customers say they want amd, heh
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evofire · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 12:14 am Post subject:

I sure hope they start using AMD's, then maybe AMD would be able to drive the prices of their chips even lower due to a high volume being consumed by Dell, and more profit going in and more resources to manufacture CPUs.

lokisnake · newbie! Joined: Apr 22, 2005 Posts: 11

Meh, I was going to suggest a Macintosh until I read your post Razz

Anyways, on a PC running Windows, Make sure you use as little Microsoft programs as possible. No outlook, instead use Thunderbird, and Firefox instead of IE.

Oh, and use common sense. Don't open unknown files/packages.

cicak83 · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:51 am Post subject:

Don't forget to create a backup for your registry. Its quite usefull. You can reload it if there is a stuborn spyware in your hard drive.
I have 2 viruses, 1 worm, and a few spyware in my computer. I can even see them as a .rm file. Can't delete. Norton can see the viruses. Mc Afee cannot. Both cannot remove. So I just reload the registry. Virus stay in my computer but they don't do anything. Weird. I can still see them when I scan with my AV. It doesn't quarantine even. Even when it does the virus can still spread. So reload the registry and quickly save your important data. Usually the virus stays and doesn't infect your other data storage medium. Then format. And everything is lost with the virus.
There goes my manga... Crying or Very sad

Is · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:21 am Post subject:

i used to regularly back up my registry because of all the hacks i did to it hehe... don't back it up now, though.
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