Re: [H] Ceton

2010-08-10 Thread Greg Sevart
I was looking forward to it until I made one of the best decisions I have all year--I told TWC to go f themselves and went to Dish. > -Original Message- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of tmse...@rlrnews.com > Sent: Tuesda

Re: [H] Ceton

2010-08-10 Thread tmservo
Cable card tuner for mediacenter. --Original Message-- From: Thane Sherrington Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com ReplyTo: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Ceton Sent: Aug 10, 2010 2:15 PM At 02:19 PM 10/08/2010, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrot

Re: [H] Ceton

2010-08-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:19 PM 10/08/2010, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: How many on the list are waiting for a ceton mcard? Just wondering. :) What is it? T

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:36 PM 10/08/2010, Joshua MacCraw wrote: Like ION HTPC's being made, it kicks ass video wise. Thanks to CUDA certain apps can offload work to the GPU. Doesn't replace my Q6600 desktop by but gives me what I need portable short of serious games. Video is all that matters because even decade

Re: [H] Ceton

2010-08-10 Thread Eli Allen
Was waiting on the initial reviews of the final hardware allowing prices of 2tb drives to drop so it could keep up with the 4 streams Sent from my iPhone On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:19 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: How many on the list are waiting for a ceton mcard? Just wondering. :) Sent v

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Joshua MacCraw
I assume you talking one of these? Nice unit, GMA graphics = No Sale. http://www.laptopspec.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ASUS-UL20AT-Specs.jpg On 8/10/2010 10:49 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: At 02:35 PM 10/08/2010, Joshua MacCraw wrote: Near as I can tell from reading reviews it's more like

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Joshua MacCraw
Like ION HTPC's being made, it kicks ass video wise. Thanks to CUDA certain apps can offload work to the GPU. Doesn't replace my Q6600 desktop by but gives me what I need portable short of serious games. Video is all that matters because even decade old slow PC's are enough CPU power short of e

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:35 PM 10/08/2010, Joshua MacCraw wrote: Near as I can tell from reading reviews it's more like spend $800ish vs $490 to get better CPU & maintain the same level of graphics as the ION in the Asus 1201N. Caveat of the Atom platform is the artificial 2GB RAM limit and not so hot CPU (N330 v

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Joshua MacCraw
Near as I can tell from reading reviews it's more like spend $800ish vs $490 to get better CPU & maintain the same level of graphics as the ION in the Asus 1201N. Caveat of the Atom platform is the artificial 2GB RAM limit and not so hot CPU (N330 vs. C2D) despite being 64bit dual core. Otherwi

[H] Ceton

2010-08-10 Thread tmservo
How many on the list are waiting for a ceton mcard? Just wondering. :) Sent via BlackBerry

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Scoobydo
Actually I'm in somewhat of a quandary. My game box with Win7 X64 is currently running on 2 gigs because I wanted my main box with the Phenom II X6 1055T with Vista X64 to have a full 4 gigs. DDR2 is done and I don't want to be buying anymore of it but I'm not yet in a position to upgrade m

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Scoobydo
That's good news and I just based in on the fact that WinXP doesn't need any more than 2 gigs to run optimally while I would not consider running Win 7 X64 with any less than 4 gigs. My opinion of course and I have never owned a portable of any kind and probably never will. There's just nothi

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:01 PM 10/08/2010, Joshua MacCraw wrote: You base that on fact or just impression? I've not found W7 any slower than XP on the same hardware. In my testing, I haven't found W7 to be significantly slower than XP on 2GB or more. Haven't tried with less. Not a fan of netbooks. Too slow.

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Bryan Seitz
I concur, XP is more light-weight IMO. On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:01:55AM -0700, Joshua MacCraw wrote: > You base that on fact or just impression? I've not found W7 any slower > than XP on the same hardware. > > On 8/8/2010 8:08 PM, Scoobydo wrote: > > XP is faster especially with only 2 gigs o

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Joshua MacCraw
You base that on fact or just impression? I've not found W7 any slower than XP on the same hardware. On 8/8/2010 8:08 PM, Scoobydo wrote: XP is faster especially with only 2 gigs of RAM.. On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:30:08 -0500, Steve Tomporowski wrote: I went out and got a netbook, it's an Asu

Re: [H] Asus Netbook

2010-08-10 Thread Joshua MacCraw
You wasted good money then, should have gotten the Asus EEE PC 1201N! Same degree of bloatware to remove & I had to upgrade to W7 business from the high end W7 home version but well worth the money IMHO over anything else I looked at. On 8/8/2010 5:30 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote: I went out

Re: [H] Pending conversion?

2010-08-10 Thread Joshua MacCraw
Testing... Seems Thunderbird has taken to posting/responding here using my other account when I hit reply? Was wondering why it seemed like I was not involved in the conversation! Now to figure out why the "Delivered-To:" is not the account I reply from...

Re: [H] AnyDVD

2010-08-10 Thread Scoobydo
Great way to watch movies by having them given to you in barter for your assistance. Had any ladies give you any pron yet? Not a bad business model. LOL On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:54:11 -0500, Steve Tomporowski wrote: I'm about to get around to posting on their forum. On one computer that

Re: [H] Pending conversion?

2010-08-10 Thread Eli Allen
Depends on the point of the raid controller. I'm not saying its as good as a real controller but if he only needs as much performance as his old setup and wants the extra reliability then onboard mirrored raid is good enough and sould be faster then what he has now. Just because you can spend a m

Re: [H] Pending conversion?

2010-08-10 Thread Greg Sevart
Keyword there is "most". I've actually had pretty good results with Intel's onboard Matrix RAID functionality, so long as you know its limitations, namely: 1. No ability to set up e-mail alerts when a drive has failed 2. No ability to set reconstruction/rebuild priorities--it's always 100%, which

Re: [H] AnyDVD

2010-08-10 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I have both the lifetime AnyDVDHD and CloneDVD. The reason I like AnyDVD HD is because it breaks the copy protection so you can play on any system regardless of whether it meets the HDCP stuff. Of course, it enables ripping too, but even though I have nearly 1000 discs I don't bother doing tha

Re: [H] AnyDVD

2010-08-10 Thread Steve Tomporowski
I'm about to get around to posting on their forum. On one computer that will be difficult, because as soon as I turn on logging, it can read the disk! So guess what the log will tell them. LOL. I have to do due diligence and search the forum for people with similar problems. And, no, I'm n