The thread formerly known as the laptop thread but is now about random tech.

[smallharmlesskitten]

You aren't. You just feel that way. Wasting that HDD with ubuntu of all things.

It's less than 1 GB... I have 50GB set aside for it as everything takes up next to no file space. )

It's still a waste of productive space. You could use that for pictures, movies, music,porn

not really.. I have 500GB total. It's all good.If I need more space I can just add another HDD

 

[crimson5pheonix]

You aren't. You just feel that way. Wasting that HDD with ubuntu of all things.

It's less than 1 GB... I have 50GB set aside for it as everything takes up next to no file space. )

It's still a waste of productive space. You could use that for pictures, movies, music,porn

not really.. I have 500GB total. It's all good.If I need more space I can just add another HDD

Waste of space... And what a small amount of HDD space.

 

[Alex_P]

It's still a waste of productive space. You could use that for pictures, movies, music,porn

You know what's a waste of productive space? 12 GB just for the "Windows" folder in Vista.

Oh, and, since we're on the topic of storage now, your big hard drives are crying because you formatted them as NTFS.

-- Alex

 

[crimson5pheonix]

It's still a waste of productive space. You could use that for pictures, movies, music,porn

You know what's a waste of productive space? 12 GB just for the "Windows" folder in Vista.

Oh, and, since we're on the topic of storage now, your big hard drives are crying because you formatted them as NTFS.

-- Alex

They don't have tear ducts....

 

[BlueMage]

But the question was about whether notebooks or netbooks were better. Now, I like the idea of a netbook. Small, able to be carried about easily - I can't see why university students would want anything else for actual college work. I've tried lugging about my laptop through college - it's a gargantua compared to an ASUS Eee PC, not helped by the fact that I haven't been able to hack in a wireless connection to Trinity College's network. However, I'd rather have that larger screen and slightly lesser cost compared to a netbook, and so I chose notebook, less because I'd ever want it for games, and more because an old one can be picked up quite cheaply.

Again, I can speak from both sides here. 2.5 of my 5 years total at uni, I carried with me a fairly large Acer Travelmate, and while I loved it dearly (and still do! Desk-bound though it now may be) it was a pain to lug, and required an investment in a whole new backpack complete with laptop area.

Not so the Eee. That thing I could practically carry on its own, or just chucked into a small backpack with its own carry-case around it for protection. It ran all the presentations my lecturers had, and while it wouldn't run all the software we needed to run, that's what uni lab computers are for.

The only failure of the Eee was that QUT's wireless network at the time was in the transition between exclusively VPN and exclusively PEAP-authenticated, with the VPN to be phased out very rapidly - and the VPN being the only method offered for Eee users to connect. And despite my efforts, I could never get wpa_supplicant to play nicely

Portability was never a problem with mine. I already had a backpack left over from high school that had a laptop area-thing and weight means nothing to me. My backpack in high school after the first month, never went below 50lbs and I had to carry the thing down 2 flights of stairs in the morning and up 2 flights of stairs in the afternoon because it was the only way to get to my room.

Edit 50lbs=22.6796kg

Fair enough. I know that feeling also, yet my bag was mostly just a single large cavity - no real place to store a laptop securely and snugly.

But that's why I love the Eee toss it in anywhere - it'll survive the journey just fine.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Oh, well anyway. There are third party programs that'll do that for cheaper.

Maybe. But Vista Ultimate is COOLER.

Vista is not "cool"... Linux is cool

Have fun with your WINE, I'll enjoy un-emulated games.

I dont use WINE. I have a Vista boot (It was free with my PC) for games and things exclusive to windows and my Linux, Mostly variations of Ubuntu, for everything else

Well don't you feel like the pretty pony?

Yes...Yes I do... More like a Donkey as I use Vista.

At least I'm pretty!

You aren't. You just feel that way. Wasting that HDD with ubuntu of all things.

Which is why I tend to stick to Linux variants like Debian and openSUSE - the home versions of operating systems they use on supercomputers, servers and workstations. OK, you sell your soul out just as much using SUSE as you do using Windows, but it's open-source nonetheless

Haha, you sold your soul to an open source program. Does that mean the community can modify your soul now?

 

[Alex_P]

Agreed - unfortunately, WinXP not only doesn't like ext3, it doesn't even recognise it.

Or JFS. Or XFS. Or HFS. Or UFS. Or ZFS. Or Reiser and Reiser4.

(To be fair, I don't think any Linux distribution currently supports ZFS, either.)

-- Alex

 

[Ameatypie]

Oh, well anyway. There are third party programs that'll do that for cheaper.

Maybe. But Vista Ultimate is COOLER.

Vista is not "cool"... Linux is cool

Meh. Different types of cool

 

[xitel]

Vista is very cool when you want to do:

Spoiler: This

This:

Spoiler: Or this

Or this:

I cant tell for sure, but is that top one Far Cry 2? And what exactly is going on in the bottom one?

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Sonar is a very helpful program. My dad uses it, but it's probably an older version than the one you showed Eggo.

 

[xitel]

Sonar is a very helpful program. My dad uses it, but it's probably an older version than the one you showed Eggo.

Uh oh, someone's ban ended... but yeah, Sonar seems interesting.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Sonar is a very helpful program. My dad uses it, but it's probably an older version than the one you showed Eggo.

Uh oh, someone's ban ended... but yeah, Sonar seems interesting.

It can do quite a bit. I like using the program. Hardly stresses my dad's computer too.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Alright, moving on. What are your opinions of Core i7? I'd like to have it and 6 gigs of DDR3 RAM in my computer right now. Unfortunately I'd also like food, water, and shelter.

 

[xitel]

You know, I still have yet to fix my mic.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

You know, I still have yet to fix my mic.

Really? Like I said, call the manufacturer because I don't see how this could be anything except a hardware malfunction.

 

[xitel]

You know, I still have yet to fix my mic.

Really? Like I said, call the manufacturer because I don't see how this could be anything except a hardware malfunction.

I like my plan of just dealing with it cause I'm lazy as hell.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

You know, I still have yet to fix my mic.

Really? Like I said, call the manufacturer because I don't see how this could be anything except a hardware malfunction.

I like my plan of just dealing with it cause I'm lazy as hell.

Always an option, try adding a third party mic and see if that shuts off the default one. It may or may not.