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PC Buying Guide
These Anandtech buying guides are just awesome. Rather than writing my own, I’ll just do the difference in opinion I have compared with their analysis: h2. High end See AnandTech: Buyer’s Guide: High End System – July 2004 for base recommendations. Here are the deltas to get a machine cost (without monitor) of $2200 but…
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No RAID-0 needed for desktops
AnandTech: Western Digital’s Raptors in RAID-0: Are two drives better than one?. I was going to get a pair of 74GB 10Krpm drives in a RAID-0 to just get screaming desktop performance. Indeed, it does look like that RAID-0 double actual disk throughput, but because a single drive also has caching and lookahead, the real…
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Laptop Lust
Sony VAIO VGN-X505VP Review. So it costs $3,700. This is the utlimate machine. Thinner than a quarter, it has DVD, 1.1GHz Pentium M, 512MB Ram.
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Great Photo Processing
Film Processing, Photographic Lab, Printing – A&I Photographic Lab. Just a note, after a year of use, we really love A&I’s photo processing. With a year or so to go until I go digital, this has been a nice compromise. Get a wonderful 35mm camera (Nikon N80) and some great lenses (50MM F/1.8 and 70-200MM…
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Driver license times
Drivers Field Office Information. Hey, they even put the time you have to wait for a drivers license on the web. How cool is that!
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Tour de France is here!
Well, its Tour de France time and the fever over here is high. Lots of bikers hanging out here. Here are some great places to look by google pagerank: * “Official TdF site”:http://www.letour.fr/2004/us/index.html. The official site. Wow, it all begins this Saturday if you can believe it! This site is great for the official results.…
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Fountain Pump
Fountain pump – Little giant model 369 – free shipping. OK, here’s the power of the Internet for you. My Dad’s fountain pump broke and it is one google query to find this site that has about every pump in the world.
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GPS Update
Took a basic navigation class today and realized I’m under gadgeted on marine hardware, so here’s an update: * GPS Receiver Information, Software, and Hardware Reviews of Garmin, Lowrance, Magellan and other GPS Receivers. This is the most amazing site. I used it two years ago to pick a Magellan Sportrak Pro. Its still a…
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What is your XP Product Key
Magical Jelly Bean Software – Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder v1.41. A nifty utility that tells the current Windows XP product key. Useful when trying to diagnose things.
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Announcement: 1 for 3 in real improvement
Quite a lot happening on the PC front. Intel announced their new 775 pin socket, new chipsets and new Pentium 3.6GHz. The amazing thing is that with all that technology, it ain’t faster than the current generation or the Athlon 64 in many cases. That’s amazing. AMD also announced their new 939-socket family. Some slight…