Posted 11/07/2009 at 03:08:08pm

A lot of people are custom building PC's now. Also it is not like the lower priced PC's are going to hurt their pocket any. If it was really hurting them, they would get out of the business. They just won't be able to take the big hunk of change they wanted for the crap they put into their PC's.

Posted 11/05/2009 at 03:14:07pm

Oh man, I love you guys.

(polo w/ bugmenot account)

Posted 10/30/2009 at 09:58:28pm

There is an easier way to your problem and it's integrated right in Windows since Windows XP (maybe even older)

It's part of the disk cleanup utility. Simply right click a drive > properties > disk cleanup. Wait a bit until the new window appears then more options tab >  clean up... button in system restore section. Clicking this button deletes every restore point but the last one. Safe & practical.

Posted 10/30/2009 at 09:58:16pm

wrong reply

Posted 10/29/2009 at 10:50:47pm

Twice the heat, twice the needed power, and more than twice the chances of a failure too.

What happens if disk 1 has a problem? You don't lose 500GB of data, you lose 1TB.

Not to sound like a pompuous ass, but once you step up to higher levels of the computer world and you progress as a computer technician you learn something that is extremely valuable: Simple is better. The simpler you can do the better it is. Sometimes it's worth spending a bit more to sleep well at night or just keeping things simple. :)

Posted 10/29/2009 at 09:34:35pm

Oh and check on Samsung ODD instead of Samsung consumer electronics website.

http://www.samsungodd.com/

The drive is there, like any other optical drive currently being produced by Samsung.

Posted 10/29/2009 at 09:31:29pm

Dang DDR3 200. I'm glad we're over the 133 and 166 models... ;P

Posted 10/21/2009 at 09:46:11am

FilthyRichmond.com is hilarious. But WTF is up with her grill?

Posted 10/20/2009 at 12:30:51pm

I think this mashable.com is on the right track in explaining this...  Consider when the popularity of each of the web mail services peaked, then think about what groups would be using those mail services.  Most of the people who use comcast, bellsouth, and other ISP based mail accounts do so because they don't know better (sorry ISPs).  This user group includes my parents, it's okay.  What I mean is - The audience is different, probably made up mostly of older, more established households that use the addresses provided them by their ISP rather than a third party web service.  I use gmail because I know how awesome it is.  I'm part of the younger, more connected and internet savvy crowd, but I haven't had credit as long as my parents, so while both are clean, my score is lower.  Oh, and yahoo mail is dirty.  Full of raunchy spam.  Bleh.

Posted 10/15/2009 at 09:35:15pm

There is progress, then there are companies trying to push the same old product in new packaging.