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Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Silentbomber
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 18, 2007 00:38
make sure you have the Vista install disc and your activation key, As it could come in handy sometime in the future.
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Joe Redifer
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 18, 2007 08:25
I just started it up. Windows Vista' s got a looooong load time. Then I got a blank black scree
Nice! It didn' t waste any time at all.
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Byakko
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 18, 2007 20:16
Nice! It didn' t waste any time at all.
Actually, I found out that its supposed to do that, on laptops anyway. I even closed it thinking it had shutdown by itself, which turns out to just put it in suspend mode. An hour later and I opened it up again and the set-up was complete w/o a hitch. Bummer that the included MS Office ' 07 doesn' t come packed in fully activated  I might need to get it with my student discount.
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Silentbomber
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 18, 2007 21:11
the included MS Office ' 07 doesn' t come packed
Get Openoffice instead, its the excat same thing as Office but its free. If you thinking about buying Office or whatever.
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emofag
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 19, 2007 00:56
ORIGINAL: Silentbomber
the included MS Office ' 07 doesn' t come packed
Get Openoffice instead, its the excat same thing as Office but its free. If you thinking about buying Office or whatever.
It' s not the same thing, its ok if you just need a word processor but if you use it for work or school I don' t recommend it.
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Eddie_the_Hated
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 19, 2007 03:46
Get Openoffice instead, its the excat same thing as Office but its free. If you thinking about buying Office or whatever.
Well... it' s better than Word Pad. I guess. Their paint & slide-show applications are horrendous. I' ve had to use them one or two times in a pinch. Awful.
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Silentbomber
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 19, 2007 06:52
Really, All i ever used it for was word documents, but that all I need Office for either, so I rather that than going to pirate some software.
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Byakko
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 19, 2007 19:17
I' ll prolly still buy Office. Compatibility is more important to me than price right now. Btw, sending this on my latop  It' s got great Wi-Fi speed  Just d/l Firefox now. IE 7 is like it, but I' d rather go with the Fox, heh.
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UnluckyOne
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 19, 2007 20:15
ORIGINAL: Byakko
PPS: Suggestions for antivirus programs etc. My bro has a kind of standard set-up for computers, and we usually use McAfee plus AdAware Professional. PeerGuardian 2 as well.
Get NOD32. Infinitely better than any other AV out there - especially those bloatware abominations like Norton/McAfee. I' ve tried many others and nothing comes close to its speed/efficiency/effectiveness. Download the trial and I guarantee you' ll want the full version.
< Message edited by unluckyone -- 19 Aug 07 12:17:09 >
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Agent Ghost
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 20, 2007 00:30
You should turn off Aero Glass. It' s a useless feature that cuts a chunk out of performance.
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Byakko
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 20, 2007 00:54
Aero Glass?
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Eddie_the_Hated
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 20, 2007 02:51
Just d/l Firefox now. IE 7 is like it, but I' d rather go with the Fox, heh.
Shame you have to pollute your PC with IE7, but as long as you' ve got Firefox, you' re golden. 
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Silentbomber
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 20, 2007 03:49
Aero Glass?
its on Vista, All it does [to my knowledge] is that it makes the windows look cool, that transparent affect right? it eats up resorces aparently. I think turning off that UAC shit is more important, seriously, that was retarded.
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Agent Ghost
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 20, 2007 03:53
I think turning off that UAC shit is more important, seriously, that was retarded.
Yeah that to.
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Zoy
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RE: Help me buy a laptop this week! (Impt: Mac or Pc?)
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Aug 21, 2007 01:27
I turn off all the unnecessary graphical effects... mouse shadows, weird window opening/closing animations. To hell with all that!
I' ll be back at the command line interface if you guys need me.
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