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Cleartype is not.

I scanned old prints a couple of years ago. I started using some Epson that was one of the better flatbed scanners at the time, but I was not pleased with the tonal scale in the dark areas. (I think they compromised too much on making it a transparency scanner as well.) The new models are...

Nope. I use a notebook plugged in 95% of the time. I'd be happier with a 2 hour battery life and >2 GHz in the 12", NMT 3 lb. form factor. Is there an i7 in that category yet? Try converting 21MP RAW files with the atom CPU.

I wish it had an SU9600 even at the higher price.

This set was $30 on sale, not that I wouldn't have taken it at full price. It will save enough time to pay for itself as I install apps etc. sitting at the desk using the same monitor. If the end user does not like it there are plenty of USB ports for a wired keyboard and mouse.

It is not for me. The end user will be located in a SFH. Now that I know the range is short, security is no longer a concern unless a hacker is parked in the driveway, which is quite unlikely. ;)

I think it is still there for a reason.

I assumed it was the latter.

So far, so good. The mouse and keyboard reconnect automatically without any need to press the buttons. There are a few annoyances. The mouse uses 2 AA batteries and is heavy, yet it only needs one. I suspect that the mouse is a variant of the standalone version that has a space for the USB...

I picked up the cheapie MS set. For the price of a basic wireless mouse, it's well worthwhile. I was surprised to find a large puck-shaped receiver with cord rather than the tiny USB device usually packaged with the mice alone. It seems to be fine up to about 10 feet, and will help me setup...

So it is about as useful as WinBench 99 was? ;)

7.9 is in what units?

I tried it with no luck. I'll not waste any more time. The ACHI part in the BIOS takes some seconds, certainly no less than the BIOS of a controller card. I have several of the 2/4-port SATA PCIe 1x cards lying about.

I have TI 2010 installed, so there's no risk. But damn, those instructions look complicated for a lay person. :o

OK, I'm a dufus. :oops: I'm not sure if it is worth starting all over it after spending a few hours installing OS and many of the apps. I have not activated anything yet. The disc is the old XP32 SP2 OEM version and I don't have a floopy disc. Do I really need ACHI? I don't have it on my...

The second one has no numbers. I guess nobody does data entry at home?

I tried the ACHI, but it crashes and reboots right after the logo starts.

At least nobody will hack it with that limited range. :) The case will be on the desktop, so the short range should work.

:cursin: The eSATA port is useless - no hot swap. So now I'll have to add a card.

Are wireless keyboard and mice combinations any good? I was looking at a simple MS set at a local store today (not the crazy curvy kind). Have you any experience with them? I'm a bit concerned about the security. Do people remotely hack the wireless keyboards? Battery life is listed as 6...

TwitterPeek. Just stupid.

The CPU is an E7200 that has been sitting unused since last year. According to the Intel it has no virtualization. I don't understand the implications - cannot boot Win7 or what??? I could replace the CPU later on, but the goal is to keep the project reasonably inexpensive. The fan is...

Maybe he has a plethora of games? Do they need to be on C:?

Ugh. The reply lost the original quote, but you know what I mean.

The first and last sentences appear contradictory. I'm still not clear about In any event, I'm not planning to kill the drive in the first week. ;) The X25M G2 is running XP64 now and was running XP32 before I moved them around yesterday. The drive will obsolete by the time I build a Win7...

I don't know what if any firmware it has. The drive is dated September, 2009. How does it matter?

Well, I finally got the G2. It's fine for the OS/apps and loads fast, but pagefile or temp files are slow compared to the X25-E. At least I can dual boot from the two and share the page file on the X2-5E.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

They are on independent disks. The problem is that I have too many drives. 8 are on all the time and then another 7 (3 int, 4 ext) kick in as the backup. It was fine until I rearranged the drives yet again to add that elusive X25M G2.

The primary drive (set in the BIOS) is the one that boots the primary OS by default "rdisk(0)." The secondary drive can be booted by selecting it in the BIOS, but of course I'd rather make the choice with the boot.ini.

I'm trying to use the boot.ini to select the secondary OS, but it is not working. I tried all 7 other drives "rdisk(1)...rdisk(7)" to no avail. The image on the drive is fine, since I can boot from it using F12 in the BIOS. It's so simple, yet what can I be doing wrong?

And now...:scratch:

The seek times are 2ms, not the access times. ;) Anyway, unless yuou are running a bunch of them in a server it makes no sense. Why are you unwilling to use SSD?

Maybe someone actually has to use a PC for work, though that is less likely for kids? :D

What kind of place is that? Why have they not been fired yet?

I think they stopped production over a year ago.

More twits.

Yeah, that's about all. :zzz:

I don't know because the mobo is a delivery exception. :( Why do they ship a 4-item order in three boxes from two locations? It's crazy arranging to pick up boxes that are supposed to be delivered on one day, yet will show up on three days. :mad:

I actually have 4 retail socket 775 coolers, still with the HS compound on them. Unfortunately I don't know which one was supplied with which CPU, but two have the copper insert and two are all aluminium. Somehow I thought that Intel retail coolers were considered to be too loud or weak or...

Beliefs are learned, not genetic. Whether it is practical to have different beliefs than your family or culture is another story. It's not uncommon in the US.

Oh crap, the fan I wanted to use does not fit. :( What is a good fan for 775 that is not the tower style? It can be about an inch taller than the retail one.

That is more of a "Why animals should not be running loose around the computer room..." question. I'm guessing that no real harm was done, unlike what I read in other forums when a dog knocks over the tripod with 5 or 10K of gear on it.

I tried that and it was problematic to move my field of view around all the time. Now it would be even worse since I need glasses for monitor distance (typical presbyopia).

:lol: I think you are joking - a little.

I hope it works out.

I tried two monitors once and found it to be annoying. I can see the utility for dual monitors at the office when using multiple applications.

Yes, but I think it is no longer made.

Of course not. I did not mean to imply anything like that. I was basing that on the links.