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I've got a Studio XPS 13 which has DDR3 and a 500GB 7200RPM hard drive (you can probably find one refurbished on ebay or overstock), and well, I say it isn't really that much faster. Yeah, give or take, it might cut the boot time by a quarter and certain programs load up faster, but really don't let the 7200RPM hard drive determine which laptop you are going to get. Get the best one overall, and that is what I regret with my purchase. Although mine's a super fast laptop, the cosmetics are well... not holding up too well. High gloss = huge fingerprint magnet.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Studio-XPS-13-1340-P8600-2-4GHz-4GB-320GB-Warranty_W0QQitemZ260549472286QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLaptops_Nov05?hash=item3ca9f5701e
If the Studio XPS 13 interests you..

Looks like your price range is around ~$650, and for a budget speed machine, I would recommend this:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=211467354&listingid=67621374

Granted the battery life isn't spectacular, refurbished, and the RAM is a little slow, but overall a very fast computer. Might be overkill if you don't play games ;)

Good luck with your search!

Very surprised many women voted (and posted) in the very beginning of this thread, but the numbers tell it all.

However, like many others I am of gender.

super: it converts everything and has a semi-friendly (yet advanced) GUI.
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

He means this:
http://download.cnet.com/URL-Blocker/3000-12565_4-10906899.html



So that site it actually brings up on every blocked website will be the key to fixing those blocked websites. You could also switch browsers to Chrome or Opera (10.50 beta) and that will fix it.

Or you could do as one user suggested:


Good luck!

If you are saying you are trying to play the music/video files off your iPod from your PC, it isn't possible. Apple encodes the files on the iPod so only the iPod can read it, and not a PC/Mac.

There are programs that can extract the files and convert them off an iPod to a computer, but you aren't supposed to do that. Apple tries to make it so you can't do that.

Only the iPod can read the files on its own hard drive. See if you can do what you want a different way, cause computers cannot read and play files of an iPod.

Looked in a review and it said:
Memory Options: 512MB - 4GB (667MHz DDR2 SDRAM)
667MHz FSB

So to answer your question, save your money keep your 667 RAM. It might support running at 800 RAM, but it would require overclocking and as a Dell owner myself, not going to happen.

Anyways just going from 667 to 800 isn't much of a speed boost, and not worth the money. Switch out the hard drive or processor to see a more significant speed boost.

Stick with the RAM you have now.

Liked the Yoko Gurren Lagann cosplay, and think Kirsten Dunst just made a lot of friends, and enemies with that short video.

Kudos to Kirsten Dunst for a good vid!

If no programs are actively running, check your icon tray, and close all background programs. Then check in task manager for a few seconds to see if it his 0. If it doesn't reach as low as 5%, then something appears to be hogging your CPU usage. Also remember that programs like firefox, word, adobe acrobat, etc. can take a lot of system resources without any reason.

Generally just looking at processes under task manager can pinpoint CPU hogs, but not always. Had one case where my CPU usage would never hit 0, even when all secondary programs were cut down. Even only running 17 processes, the computer still wouldn't hit zero, and it was in fact some system vital process like svchost.exe that happened to be hogging system resources.

After a thorough virus and adware scan, the problem was fixed. I recommend you do the same, clean your computer of excess junk. Also go into msconfig (just type in msconfig on the search space in the start menu) and cut down some non-vital startup processes and services. Rule of thumb, if you don't know whether it's an important startup process or service, it is better to leave it alone.

CPU usage doesn't just go up by itself, it's either adware/virus, active program or background process/service.

Prefer fast zombies in games because it makes the combat more intense, like in Left 4 Dead. But in reality, I would prefer slow zombies because they aren't as dangerous.

Okay, however now, the entire HD has been reformatted and a NFTS Windows XP partition is on there but is not registering.

Sounds like an issue with the master boot record, if you are really in a pickle, install the GRUB bootloader and then it might fix the issue. Unfortunately I have not done this myself, but installing Ubuntu (as long as XP is installed on the drive too) will cause a new GRUB bootloader to form and from there you can boot windows. Be sure to not reformat the drive, but install Ubuntu alongside the Windows XP partition, this can be fixed later.

Really, it sounds like you made a mistake somewhere, in all my times that I have reformatted a drive, sometimes it would do that because I did something blatantly wrong like improperly moved partitions or install Arch linux the wrong way ._.

Right to write and use a mouse, left to fap.

Age 19
Gender Male
Ethnicity: White

1. 7
2. Barrack Obama, and Joe Biden
3. 50 States
4. (I can't believe I forgot this, I cannot remember!)
5.27
6.1968 (that's the year everything happened)
7.15
8.right now I'm 11, so I think 13
9. like hell I watch Disney films
10. murder, theft, adultery, rape, jealousy etc.
11. fugality, patience, honesty, responsibility, etc.
12.A noun is an object which can be a subject, object, or direct object in a sentence, a person, place, thing or idea. An adjective is a descriptive word that modifies (or focuses) nouns.

Personally never really heard of the seven deadly sins or virtues.


Just because it's a title doesn't mean it's necessarily true. It's a commonwealth according to the STATE CONSTITUTION, but understand it's a state according to the US Constitution because only states have representation in congress. So it's both a state and a commonwealth at the same time. So yes, there are 50 states, but 4 of the states are also commonwealths.

Oh sorry, I thought you had 7 cause it had it on the link you sent. You're right, make everything vista and not 7.

First download this:
http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/
Clean out the Nvidia drivers you have now. Do not restart.

This will be the place where you'll likely find a fix:
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
The top left corner, type N90 and choose all. Then pick the N90Sc, and when it prompts you for OS, pick Windows 7 64-bit.

Install the newest listings under:
VGA
BIOS Utilities (Make sure its Windows 7)
BIOS (BIOS 205)

After you install (or run) the BIOS Utility, it will prompt you for a file which is the "BIOS 205". Make sure your laptop is plugged in, and run the utility. If it says you already have BIOS 205, do it anyway, it won't hurt to make sure. Often manufacturers have problems with their computers and then make fixes to them afterwards.

Good luck!

What did the XP CD format? Do you still have your old partition on there, or did it just overwrite the partition? Tell us what exactly you formatted and where the XP CD installed Windows.

Anyways, they are right, you should run the setup utility (AKA BIOS) that comes up when the computer first starts, it says like "DEL: Startup Utility" or "Press DEL for BIOS Options", and on most computers you press delete while the computer is first booting. Open that up, and check the boot order so that the right hard drive is selected to boot FIRST before anything else, after all, booting from CD requires you to change the boot order. If anything is set above the Hard Drive in boot order, it can give you the identical error you are getting now.

If you have already done this, just say so.

Otherwise I can recommend that you set the MBR in the Ubuntu Live CD using a guide like this:
http://www.arsgeek.com/2008/01/15/how-to-fix-your-windows-mbr-with-an-ubuntu-livecd/

gparted can really screw up the way your computer boots from a partition because it doesn't restore boot records after you format or anything. Make sure you pinpoint the partition you want, and apply the MBR to it.

Personally I wouldn't have used a third party software in order to modify a critical element of the system.

I myself have patched my themes file through manual means of using a file-replacement utility. Who knows what that Ux theme patcher could have done or what could have gone wrong.

Anyways, if you can find a backup (if you were smart, you would have made a backup like I did) to that uxtheme.dll or whatever it is, replace it back to default with a special system file replacer program. It's been so long since I have done it, I don't remember the program that I did it with myself.

If you're a person who does system restores (I'm not), that might fix the problem too.

However, you should also look into the possibility that this patcher program might have affected other parts of the system as well, after all, it's altering system files. Explore any other things that the patcher might have done that may have compromised system stability, if patching uxtheme.dll doesn't fix anything.

If all else fails, I clean install of XP should never fail, but I would plan on upgrading to 7, after all there's a vulnerability in XP that remains unfixed.

First thing's first, get uxtheme.dll fixed.

Also if everything is working alright, I use a window decorating program called BB4Win which overhauls the entire desktop to a more minimalistic setting.
BBClean mod is my favorite:
http://www.bb4win.org/comment.php?comment.news.41

People are so packed together in New Jersey. Not much land, and more crime. Arizona has plenty of land for its suburbs

I had Comcast when I was at my house, and I got about 6 megabit speeds, which wasn't really that great. I don't know how much my family was paying, but it was probably around $60 per month or less.

However, on a University network, I get really nice speeds upwards of 10 megabits, but of course I don't really know how much of my tuition and room and board is going to that.

Oh yeah, no torrents though. They monitor your P2P usage here, the only two ways to download illegally here is either to use a VPN or go to a Starbucks and get free Internet.

You are all lucky bums ._.

Agreed, and also I want to point out that virtual machines themselves are still just as insecure as normal operating systems. All it does is isolate these games to an image file, which can still be searched. However, it does allow for secure removal of all the files and registry things that would normally be difficult to remove, however that would mean you have to completely delete your virtual machine.

One thing I would suggest would be to put the VM in an encrypted file container or drive (preferably AES or Serpent encryption), that way it's even more secure. Anyone with the technical know-how can open a virtual machine, but an encrypted machine, that's definitely more difficult.

It's too bad you need a spare Windows key in order to really set up the virtual machine legally.

Looks like it's all fixed on this end here too.