Recent content by Mike01

Andrewbabcock, Why are you so obsessed with Penitum Ms? It's getting to the point where I really have to know! It's like someone is holding a gun to your head and saying he'll shoot you if you don't get 1000 people to buy a Pentium M in the next two weeks. To answer your question...it's...

That Gateway redefines the expression "bang for buck". btw...I believe Tiger Direct messed up...that MR9600 is not integrated graphics and the 64MB is dedicated, not shared. I could be wrong about this...there are MR9600s with shared memory, or at least there are supposed to be, but I've...

The celeron M is nearly identical to the Pentium M of the same clock speed in performance for everything except games, where it lags only slightly because of the smaller cache. The only real difference between the two chips is that the Celeron M doesn't have the dynamic clock/power savings...

A friend of mine recently bought a Gateway for $999 at best buy. It had an A64 3400+, 1GB ram and an X600. Not sure of the model number, but they may have something similar in the weeks to come.

Well, thanks anyway. It's a hell of a deal, though. Same performance, a tad less battery life, a lot less money, and it's so small and light compared to my A64 brick. :)

Hi all, I just picked up a cheap Celeron M notebook for my wife and was pleasantly surprised that the Celeron M is almost identical in performance to a Pentium M in everything except battery life (same chip, half the cache - 1MB, and no dynamic clock). I wasn't even aware of the...

Go to best buy and get a pc card network card and an interconnect cable (a network cable designed to link two pcs directly), unless you have a hub or a router, then just get a regular network cable. If you have a wireless router, you can get a wireless card (only if you have xp, otherwise...

I did this on one of those teeny sony's with no drive. It's simple. Network it...interconnect cable, wireless card, whatever. Share another PCs CD drive, and install it from there. Setup copies all the files it needs before it reboots. So simple, it hurts (if you've wasted any time...

The gateway discussed here does not have a shared video card, it has a discrete x600 with dedicated memory. I can't tell you if it will run Everquest, but it screams in half life 2....only thing is, you can't play with anti-aliasing. That's the downside of a second rate video card. If you...

Very little GPU memory is needed for video rendering....I doubt it will even use the 64MB of dedicated memory. System RAM is another matter. Besides, my gateway has the same setup (MR9600 64MB) with an even slower memory bus (AGP vs PCIE) and it still outguns my desktop with 256MB of GPU ram.

For video editing, GPU doesnt' matter that much. My Gateway 7426 (A64 3700) renders faster than my desktop (P4 3Ghz running at 3.6), and the destop has an X800XL, while the Gateway has the MR9600.

Actually, you would see a very big speed increase going from a 4200 to a MR9600, even on DX8 games. It's just a more powerful card.

Hey, that's cool. But next time, do me a favor, and prequalify your question with: "You shouldn't care about my hardware, I'm an as@#&*^$ and I deserve whatever I get. Just answer my question directly and without qualifications, even if I ask 'what is the easiest way to electrocute myself...

Which in turn will cause premature laptop death. Laptop cases are small and tight. Even a small amount of dust can foul things up. The longer the fan is on, the mure dust is sucked in, contributing to eventual fan failure. You do not want the fan on all the time.

Hey, I have a question about Best Buy's PSP...I'll be pushing a year on mine in a few months and was wondering if they let you keep the old battery as well as the new one, or do they do something like a "core exchange" and take the old one away? btw...people always talk about Best Buy...