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Pretty much. They had a similar PC with MCE 2005, but it had a smaller HD than this one. Otherwise, would have gotten it.GORDON wrote:Heh, and that means it was free?TheCatt wrote:I'm not buying it, it just happens to be on the machine that we're buying. Not like you can build a laptop from scratch.
It's not me, it's someone else.
First impressions:
WOW!
I mean, "Eh."
We have our network SSID hidden. That took 5 minutes to connect using Windows. It kept telling me that the network didn't exist. And buried the way to get to hidden SSID networks. Thanks, Bill.
It's pretty.
It takes 600MB of RAM just to boot. (This does include a pre-installed McAfee subscription, but other stuff removed by the PC Decrapifier).
It's pretty.
It has more default folders, like a downloads folder for stuff you download.
It's pretty.
It took me a minute to find the Restart option, since it's hidden, and only standby is exposed.
Overall: Eh.
WOW!
I mean, "Eh."
We have our network SSID hidden. That took 5 minutes to connect using Windows. It kept telling me that the network didn't exist. And buried the way to get to hidden SSID networks. Thanks, Bill.
It's pretty.
It takes 600MB of RAM just to boot. (This does include a pre-installed McAfee subscription, but other stuff removed by the PC Decrapifier).
It's pretty.
It has more default folders, like a downloads folder for stuff you download.
It's pretty.
It took me a minute to find the Restart option, since it's hidden, and only standby is exposed.
Overall: Eh.
It's not me, it's someone else.
I've been running it on my second PC in my office and, so far, I haven't hated it, but it's not blowing my doors off either.
The first problem I encountered with it was that right out of the box it already was giving me driver incompatibility errors. It seems the pre-installed software Dell stuck on it, in this case, Roxio, didn't have drivers for Vista. Prompting me to wonder why Dell would even stick them on.
Now my home PC is acting up after an update from Microsoft, and I'm seriously considering going to Vista. It appears they're going to force this turd on the planet, so I might as well start learning it so I can help my friends and family who will be calling me. Plus, I'll still have Server 2003 on XP Pro on other machines in my house.
The first problem I encountered with it was that right out of the box it already was giving me driver incompatibility errors. It seems the pre-installed software Dell stuck on it, in this case, Roxio, didn't have drivers for Vista. Prompting me to wonder why Dell would even stick them on.
Now my home PC is acting up after an update from Microsoft, and I'm seriously considering going to Vista. It appears they're going to force this turd on the planet, so I might as well start learning it so I can help my friends and family who will be calling me. Plus, I'll still have Server 2003 on XP Pro on other machines in my house.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
You talking about the "file transfer wizard?"TheCatt wrote:The settings/transfer software took more than an hour to install on the old XP machine. I haven't starte dusing it yet, but am about to
What is it exactly, and how does it work?
Wife's getting my 64 bit hardware when I go dual core... would be nice if I could transfer her sims2 stuff between machines.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Well, you tell it to transfer files. It goes out and get all user accounts setting/documents/etc and even documents in random directories (like some I had hanging off the c:\ drive), and is moving them over.
It's like 6GB... so it's taking a while. Right now it's in the "move to the new machine" step. took about 30 minutes to back up from the old machine, 80 minutes to xfer the file across 2 wireless machines, now I'm guessing about an hour to uncompress and put them in places.
It's like 6GB... so it's taking a while. Right now it's in the "move to the new machine" step. took about 30 minutes to back up from the old machine, 80 minutes to xfer the file across 2 wireless machines, now I'm guessing about an hour to uncompress and put them in places.
It's not me, it's someone else.
So it finally did it, and pretty much worked for installing the settings/etc.
Two annoyances:
1) Apparently my wife used Outlook Express a long time ago, and every time the machine starts, it appears to import those emails, again, and again, and again.
2) I don't broadcast my SSID. Despite telling Windows this, and to connect anyway, it doesn't. And there is NO CLEAR WAY to say "use that profile I gave you earlier, you stupid piece of fucking shit."
Two annoyances:
1) Apparently my wife used Outlook Express a long time ago, and every time the machine starts, it appears to import those emails, again, and again, and again.
2) I don't broadcast my SSID. Despite telling Windows this, and to connect anyway, it doesn't. And there is NO CLEAR WAY to say "use that profile I gave you earlier, you stupid piece of fucking shit."
It's not me, it's someone else.
The 8800GTX is $600, so I'd say that $229 is a good price for the 8800GTS.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell