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Thomas J. Boschloo wrote:
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> Earl Allison wrote:
> > moif wrote:
> >
> >>>moif wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Dimension 9100?
> >>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>Moif of Bloodhoof <The Suffering>
> >>>>http://www.wowrankings.com/viewb.htm?id=27138
> >>>>http://www.the-suffering.co.uk
> >>>
> >>>That's right, the new Dimension 9100 -- is it that obvious
> >>>
> >>>Take it and run.
> >>>
> >>>Earl Allison
> >>
> >>Freaky, I just put an order in for one of those less than 2 hours ago! Do
> >>you have it already? How are you finding it.
> >>--
> >>Moif of Bloodhoof <The Suffering>
> >>http://www.wowrankings.com/viewb.htm?id=27138
> >>http://www.the-suffering.co.uk
> >
> >
> > I'm really enjoying it. XP Pro is much more stable than 98SE. The
> > only things that are odd are;
> >
> > Very tiny keyboard -- as the keys end, so does the actual keyboard.
> >
> > The metallic "on" button instead of the standard plastic one. Also,
> > the color of the case, white and black/silver.
> >
> > Otherwise, no complaints at all. It runs great, noticably faster than
> > my old 700MHz P3. The only thing I can't do at current is Windows
> > Updates, because on dialup, it's too long. Once I go to DSL, I'll
> > activate that too.
> >
> > You should really like it.
> >
> > Take it and run.
> >
> > Earl Allison
>
> Hypermemory (Radeon), Turbocache (PciE, nVidia), all pretty bad because
> your videocard doesn't have much dedicated memory (which is usually
> really fast, hot and expensive), but it is a mobile /and/ an SE also.
> That is actually worse than the Hypermemory, so don't worry about that.
>
> Fortunately WoW has not got very high videocard needs (like e.g. Doom
> 3), but it would have looked better on a desktop with a regular video card.
>
> What might also be a problem is that most TFT screens do not look as
> good as high end CRT monitors. They can lag and you can't change the
> screen resolution of them.
>
> I would get a good/small gamers mouse (they are also very light, which
> helps keep your laptop protable). But not patching is very dangerous. At
> least install a firewall (e.g. http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html) and
> don't use Internet Explorer (use e.g. http://opera.com/download/). They
> aren't very big downloads IMHO.
>
> Hth,
> Thomas
> - --
> Life is like a videogame with no chance to win - ATR
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Thanks for the reply.
However, a few items.
The computer in question is indeed a desktop system, not a laptop. I
found the same thing looking this card up at ATI's site, they only
mention it in the laptop range.
Here's the listing from Dell, if that helps;
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/featured_dp_desktop4_2?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
It's the default video card entry. Overall, the PC is alot like mine,
just 1GB RAM and MS Office for Excel, Word and Outlook Express.
As for patching, what I'm not currently patching are Windows Updates.
I do have McAfee Firewall installed (and updated always), as well as
their virus protection (ditto to update) and XP Pro firewall. And for
browsing, I am using Mozilla 1.0.6 -- the only MS online product I am
using is Outlook Express for email and newsgroups. I avoid IE except
for picture viewing (from my own files, not online ones).
Thanks again, I appreciate it, and all the other replies as well.
Take it and run.
Earl Allison
I guess
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