Re: laptop again

2004-07-29 Thread Don
> I probably wouldn't upgrade to Win 2k Pro. I would wipe the drive out > on the laptop and do a clean install. Not sure if Win XP would let > you > downgrade to Win 2k or not, I never tried that. > > They don't give you the option to get XP Pro instead of home? > > Speaking of laptops, I just o

Re: laptop again

2004-07-29 Thread Doug White
://www.clickdoug.com http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=1069 ==   - Original Message -   From: Chunshen (Don) Li   To: CF-Community   Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:34 AM   Subject: laptop again   Hi,   I'm thinking about getting a new laptop to re

Re: laptop again

2004-07-29 Thread Jacob
Every laptop I get with XP home, I re format and install 2000.  I only use Toshiba laptops.  Reformatting and installing 2000 will NOT void the warranty for hard ware issues. At 09:34 AM 7/29/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > >I'm thinking about getting a new laptop to replace my current broken one, >for

Re: Ben's Alienware (WAS: laptop again)

2004-07-29 Thread Ben Densmore
I got the Area 51M. Similar to your friends, only mine is silver because they don't offer black anymore. it has a P4 3.2 GHZ cpu, 1 gig memory, 60 Gig HD(7200 RPM,8 MB cache) I ended up getting the NVidia video card because I would have had to wait until September to get it if I got the Radeon 9700

Ben's Alienware (WAS: laptop again)

2004-07-29 Thread Tangorre, Michael
Hey Ben, What did you wind up getting? What other brands/models did you look at? Mike > Speaking of laptops, I just ordered my new Alienware on > Monday. I can't wait to get this thing in my hands. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Dona

Re: laptop again

2004-07-29 Thread Ben Densmore
I probably wouldn't upgrade to Win 2k Pro. I would wipe the drive out on the laptop and do a clean install. Not sure if Win XP would let you downgrade to Win 2k or not, I never tried that. They don't give you the option to get XP Pro instead of home? Speaking of laptops, I just ordered my new Ali

RE: laptop again

2004-07-29 Thread Tangorre, Michael
It would be legal to do so in my book, although that conflicts with M$'s book now and again :-) I am not a huge fan of Compaq and HP machines since they come preloaded with a plethora of crap software But then again, so do Dellss, gateways, etc... > I'm thinking about getting a new laptop to

laptop again

2004-07-29 Thread Don
Hi, I'm thinking about getting a new laptop to replace my current broken one, for computing power (mainly cf related projects and popular RDBMS like MS SQL Server, Oracle 8i/9i and IBM DB2 UDB, some of which eval) and convenience, I'm looking at one Compaq model, 2108US with 512 MB RAM (expandable