Seagate is cheaper; but you have to be careful as to how you treat them. Some of the cheaper ones aren’t so capable of roughness. Western Digital is the way to go; that’s the best thing to say. Either way, it’s your call. Seagate is the only other brand I would really even begin to suggest. WD and Seagate are both pretty “high tier” in brand names.
Gizmo5 is pretty awesome. Skype is just as useful in my opinion. I’ve used Skype for VoIP for over three years off and on now. I haven’t had an ounce of trouble. Gizmo5 has less memory usage as an application.
Not too bad. It has eSATA - which is usually what I use for external (or USB 2.0 if I don’t have a PC/Laptop that supports eSATA). Looks like a good choice. Suggestion if you don’t already know: partition it so you can manage the data a tad better (including defragging and fsck’ing [file system check]).
Fuck. I missed the $30 rebate for that hard drive. I swear they had one yesterday when I was checking it out. The eSATA is primarily the reason why I’m gonna get that. Thanks for the partition tip. I kinda forgot about it cause I don’t normally do partition on my hard drives.
It not working with Megaupload. As for Rapidshare it doesn’t even work period. I have to use IE when I want something from RS. I also heard that Mediafire trying to get at them but w/e. It was working so good for Megaupload too. :sad:
OEM says for “System Builders” but if I plan on putting it on a box I built myself, it’ll work right? In terms of functionality or anything, I shouldn’t lose anything right? Would love to save myself an extra 100 bucks or so by doing this.
Sounds like that OEM version will hard-lock itself based on your hardware specs/serial numbers, and once activated, can’t be activated again on another setup.
What I thought, I’ll probably spring for the OEM version then. Shouldn’t make a difference if you’re someone who formats yearly right? Just gotta call and go through the activation stuff again?
Got a question for you guys: Do any of you have any experience with installing an OS on a netbook? My Acer aspire one has a 160GB, wich I think is too much, and I’m thinking about swapping hard drives with my ps3’s 40GB. I tried to install xp32 through a flash drive onto my sister’s laptop, but permisions weren’t setup correctly, resulting in an ultimately botched installations. I don( want to transfer the hard drives if I’m going to have problems with geing an os on the nebook.
Word of advice for anyone wanting to build a P55/LGA 1156 platform. Apparently a lot of the P55 board right now use Foxconn parts in their CPU sockets and the pins will not align correctly with the processor (like an i7-860). This can cause overheating issues or even some burned out pins. At first I thought this was only the case with extreme overclocking (like 4GHz or above) but apparently it’s happening to stock clocks too. Those buying a LGA 1366 socket will have no such problems.
I’ve got Wave. I only used it a couple times to chat with friends. I guess if you have something that NEEDS to be discussed right then and there but no one is near you, it would be worth it. I’m not too business-minded nor do I use cloud computing a lot to see the full worth of it all.
Although, THIS video is the best demonstration of Google Wave I’ve seen so far.
