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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2007, 11:35:29 pm »
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A Mac is only $100 more. Worth it IMO.
Not rly.  :P

He wouldn't be having all of this support run-around if he had a Mac. Apple's support is, in most cases, awesome.
Too bad their product sucks so horribly.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2007, 11:13:35 pm »
What's wrong with AMD?
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2007, 11:36:05 pm »
I've heard that AMD chips run faster but hotter, so they're bad for laptops. But that may have changed.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2007, 11:40:53 pm »
Quote from: Trust on July 29, 2007, 10:06:38 pm
He wouldn't be having all of this support run-around if he had a Mac. Apple's support is, in most cases, awesome.

Yeah, until you lose/break the AC adapter for your laptop and have to drop $80 for a new one. It all comes with a price, and in Apple's case its insanely high.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #19 on: July 31, 2007, 12:28:45 am »
Quote from: iago on July 30, 2007, 11:36:05 pm
I've heard that AMD chips run faster but hotter, so they're bad for laptops. But that may have changed.
nope, they still burn out on laptops :(
I learned this the hard way
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #20 on: July 31, 2007, 02:55:22 am »
Quote from: iago on July 30, 2007, 11:36:05 pm
I've heard that AMD chips run faster but hotter, so they're bad for laptops. But that may have changed.
They're bad for traveling laptops, but as a desktop replacement they're not bad. I still wouldn't recommend anyone get an AMD over an Intel on a laptop for now.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #21 on: July 31, 2007, 01:57:05 pm »
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #22 on: July 31, 2007, 04:03:01 pm »
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Quote from: Trust on July 29, 2007, 10:06:38 pm
He wouldn't be having all of this support run-around if he had a Mac. Apple's support is, in most cases, awesome.

Yeah, until you lose/break the AC adapter for your laptop and have to drop $80 for a new one. It all comes with a price, and in Apple's case its insanely high.

Been there done that, but not with my Mac...so it's not just Apple. My replacement was about $100 btw.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #23 on: July 31, 2007, 04:17:51 pm »
My cord on a/c broke w/in 1yr man. warranty and they just mailed me a new one, no cost. 

So.....toshiba or gateway!?
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #24 on: July 31, 2007, 01:40:15 pm »
I've had bad experiences with Toshiba...
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #25 on: July 31, 2007, 03:08:11 pm »
And I've had great experiences with Toshiba...
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #26 on: July 31, 2007, 03:50:12 pm »
well, I kept the gateway.

DWM.exe is a MEMORY FUCKING WHORE. (vista desktop manager)
That + FireFox = SHIT  >:(  Maybe I'll buy another gig of Ram
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #27 on: August 01, 2007, 02:36:09 am »
It's not DWM, it's the Gateway.  Gateways are terrible.
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #28 on: August 01, 2007, 09:34:56 am »
Quote from: CrAz3D on July 31, 2007, 03:50:12 pm
well, I kept the gateway.

DWM.exe is a MEMORY FUCKING WHORE. (vista desktop manager)
That + FireFox = SHIT  >:(  Maybe I'll buy another gig of Ram

Task Manager is NOT an accurate representation of memory consumption. It includes shared memory when it displays the information. Even so, when the DWM is running the old subsystem in place for legacy reasons (Windows XP's rendering stuff basically) is turned off. I'm willing to bet that they take up about the same amount of memory if not more by a small margin.

Unused memory is wasted memory, as stated before the memory manager on Vista will cede priority to Applications which need it (ReadyBoost and SuperFetch come to mind as ones that would free up their memory to give to a hungry application)
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Re: New Laptop
« Reply #29 on: August 01, 2007, 10:16:53 am »
Quote from: rabbit on August 01, 2007, 02:36:09 am
It's not DWM, it's the Gateway.  Gateways are terrible.
my hp laptop and desktop suggest that dwm is using alot of memory too


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