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    Anybody Have Windows Experience with EFI-capable Motherboards and GPT Partitions?

    I am running windows 7 on a Intel DP55WG (EFI enable in the BIOS) and it working fine. Installing windows 7 is the same as on a none EFI bios. I have not installed or tried any other OS so cannot comment on that. I did not have to do any data recovery on the disk as it is installed now for...
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    Dell audio..

    I have a XPS 410 with the standard (SigmaTel HD audio) chip and I have no complains. I have used it under both XP and Vista (recently a new driver) and it is working great. Sounds is excellent no problems what so ever. I do not use games alot so cannot comment on performance issues with them...
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    Dell XPS 410, Any good?

    I have a XPS 140 for 5 months now and it is great. It is extremely quiet. You have to really listen to hear it even under heavy load. It is fast and reliable. I would wait until half April as then the best deals from Dell come around as it is end of Quarter for Dell and they usually try to sell...
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    US Vendors shipping to UK

    www.outpost.com will post to the UK and reasonable shipping prices but their price for products are not among the cheapest. Do not forget you will have to VAT and import duty.
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    what r the PC status market in HOLAND

    I am not sure what you are after but www.beat-it.nl is a good usually cheap website. A good price comparison website for dutch shops is http://www.tweakers.net/pricewatch here. Holland (two l's) is cheaper then UK but not then US and Germany (next 'door' and will usualy ship to Holland) is in...
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    what is a good way of backing up large files? i was thinking tape drive..

    Why not use a hard disk as a backup medium ? They are cheap, fast and easy to backup to. Yes they are not easy to remove in general but that is in most installations not a problem if you just want to use it as a backup and not for transfering to another PC. Restoring is also very easy. Just by...