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Postby Don_HH2K » Tue 11 Mar, 2008 9:11 pm

Mandrake wrote:I see that Antony with his two laptops and Don with his five laptops are both very rich. Mandrake is poor and has no laptop. :cry:


You can count four of those as desktops - only one of them has a workable battery. The others either last less than five minutes, can't be charged by normal means (at the worst I use an egg timer and alligator clamps with a current regulator), or just don't work at all.
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Postby Antony » Tue 11 Mar, 2008 10:21 pm

Mandrake wrote:I see that Antony with his two laptops and Don with his five laptops are both very rich. Mandrake is poor and has no laptop. :cry:
You have two [sdp=87619]19-inch monitors[/sdp] and one [sdp=90010]40" Sony Bravia LCD TV[/sdp].

Antony does not have a LCD TV. He uses his iMac to watch TV.
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Postby Mandrake » Wed 12 Mar, 2008 4:32 am

Those were 22" monitors. But, I sold one of them and my older 19" LCD after I found myself never using them. (I bought a DVI -> HDMI cable and connected my computer to the Bravia TV)
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Postby Antony » Wed 12 Mar, 2008 4:59 am

Mandrake wrote:Those were 22" monitors.
Sorry, my mistake.
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Postby Antony » Thu 13 Mar, 2008 6:53 pm

Somehow, I really like Logitech mice.

I bought another Logitech mouse. This one is for my MacBook Pro.
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Logitech V470 Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks

Features Bluetooth and Laser technologies, and designed for Mac.

Next to my wireless Mighty Mouse (also a Bluetooth and Laser mouse):
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Postby Mandrake » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 1:51 am

Sweet! :D

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Postby Antony » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 2:46 am

Mandrake wrote:Image


Nice!

Much better than mine video card. I only have a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT on my MacBook Pro.
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Postby Mandrake » Wed 09 Apr, 2008 3:57 am

Antony wrote:Nice!

Much better than mine video card. I only have a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT on my MacBook Pro.


Thanks. :) The 8600M GT is still a great GPU for notebooks. It's about the fastest GPU you'll find for a notebook that still offers decent battery life. Nvidia has a Geforce 8800M GT for notebooks, but it consumes a lot of power and isn't really suitable for anything other than desktop replacement notebooks.

Speaking of power consumption, this new card actually consumes a tiny little bit less power than my old 8800 GTS, despite needing two 6 pin PCI Express power connectors. It also runs much cooler. At an idle state, 57C vs. 68 or 69C for the 8800 GTS.
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Postby Mandrake » Wed 07 May, 2008 7:36 pm

My Core 2 Duo E6300 had served me well for the last seventeen months, but I felt that it was time for an upgrade. So I picked a shiny new Core 2 Duo E8200. Very nice upgrade. :) This sucker has a 1.33GHz FSB and 6MB L2 cache. The E6300 had a seemingly puny 2MB L2 cache. :lol:

Now I need to decide what to do with my E6300. :idea:
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Postby Antony » Wed 07 May, 2008 8:33 pm

What are the clocks for Core 2 Duo E6300 and Core 2 Duo E8200?

The 1.33GHz FSB and 6MB L2 cache look impressive.


I am sure that in comparison, my iMac (2.33GHz) is outdated.
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Postby Mandrake » Wed 07 May, 2008 8:49 pm

1.86GHz vs. 2.66GHz. Roughly speaking, the E8200 is around 15% faster than the E6300 at the same frequency. I'm heavily into overclocking as well, so the frequency doesn't stay at the stock levels for long.
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Postby Antony » Thu 08 May, 2008 2:23 am

2.66GHz is fast. (Much faster than my two months old MacBook Pro.)

Mandrake wrote:I'm heavily into overclocking as well, so the frequency doesn't stay at the stock levels for long.
I don't hack or mod, so I look at the factory speed as a guide ;-)
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Postby Don_HH2K » Sat 10 May, 2008 11:36 pm

My laptop has a wireless range extender antenna on it now.

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I actually got the antenna from an unused pair of TV rabbit ears. It's 64cm long and provides about +5dBi of gain on 802.11b/g. It should also work with the Bluetooth and 802.11a radios if I shorten it a bit (it's retractable, so that's easy).

Oh yeah, and it's held on with more duct tape. :wink:
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Postby Antony » Sun 11 May, 2008 2:06 am

Don_HH2K wrote:My laptop has a wireless range extender antenna on it now.

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Don,
Can you laptop pick up Wi-Fi signal all right before the added oversize antenna?

I know it improves the signal strength, but the duct tape and the size of the antenna simply destroy the look. If I were you, I would forgo the the improvement in signal and keep the laptop in its original look.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Sun 11 May, 2008 2:09 am

I could, except signal strength wasn't so great in some parts of school and outside. Now I can get a decent signal in significantly weaker areas.

I'm not really concerned about the "look" so much, to be honest.
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