Recent content by Fushigi

To correct your error, here's a link to Sony's business unit. The X200 is a little too small and the X301 uses the SU CPUs. But trying out the 301 anyway, with a depot-only warranty, no optical drive (and no BD option at all), a slower CPU, worse GPU (the Vaio is switchable between integrated...

None of what I described was "pretty" with the possible exception of the screen. BTW they rate the extended battery at up to 11 hours, so 7-8 is probably actually doable on it. I understand your dislike for the brand based on past experience. I would hesitate on such a large purchase myself...

The Vaio Z series start at $1800. The base warrant includes on-site & toll-free support and they offer an international plan. The chassis has carbon fiber. You can order the clean start version for a crapware-free machine. The screen is 1600x900 and is scratch resistant. It has the TPM chip...

I know too many people that cannot get broadband due to cost or a simple lack of availability to think that downloads have a chance at replacing physical media. The future may simply be too fractured, with DVD, BD, and downloads each fighting for market share. Regardless, my personal purchase...

More like the "Executive" thin & light category. To me the garbage category is all of these notebooks with number pads and 16+ inch lo-res screens & super glossy chassis designs. I just about puke when I see those things. My personal laptop requirements are a bit different from my work laptop...

I'm not looking for software on BD. When I travel I like to grab 4-6 movies to have available in the hotel room. We currently buy a mix of DVD & BD but that will move towards BD almost exclusively over the coming months. So a laptop for me should have a BD drive in it or, possibly, no optical...

I wouldn't buy any new laptop without at least a BD-ROM drive. E-SATA doesn't count as I wouldn't want to haul an external drive on trips. BD capability is not so much for today but for 2-3 years from now when BD has taken over as the dominant media format. (I could be wrong and digital...

Well I see one bug in the display. Click a link to go to another page in the same tab and if the title bar is longer than the "Loading..." text, the text that was there before (the old title) is only overwritten with the "Loading..." portion; the text of the old page title after that is still...

Control-T and the new tab button behave as before, but if you click a link on a page that opens a new tab (say, the link in Merc's sig), the new tab is opened adjacent to the current tab, not to the far right.

Some things arent arguable. SSDs consume less power, are quieter, generate less heat and as a consequence require less cooling. IOW they are less expensive to operate and lead to a more pleasant computing environment.

On my rig*, IE8 loads & has the bloated Yahoo home page displayed in a hair over 2 seconds. Add/Remove takes about 2 seconds to load & fully populate. Word 2007 loads in around a second, as does Excel. Outlook (full, not Express) takes longer; maybe 3 seconds. Firefox is around 2 seconds...

It got the Feds attention. This was in my daily DHS Cyber Report email:

I can understand why Merc doesn't like it as much. It's highly Windows-centric - there's no Mac or Linux widgets so you have to use their tools and do whatever passes for network backups, for instance. And most of all it's not designed as an administrator's server. It's designed for average...

Windows Home Server (to avoid your initials..) uses Volume Shadow Copy to back up only the blocks that changed since the last backup. It does not do traditional image backups that I know of. Bare Metal restores are easy: Boot off the supplied restore CD, it finds the server, you pick the...

As would CCleaner & MalwareBytes.