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    Loaded Dell Inspiron 9300 Notebook 1.6ghz, 512mb, 80Gb, 128mb x300, DVD Burner $1250 AC w/free ship

    i've got a 9200 and my screen isn't great the horizontal viewing angle is pretty poor. and there are these splotches. seems like where the backlights are. otherwise the machine is great when u add full ram to it. anyone know the difference between teh 9200 and 9300? true life...
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    save my hd

    you can unplug a usb cable from a comptuer. usualyl with no problems i simply unplugged the usb from teh first drive. and plugged the second hd into the same usb slot. then un hibernated. this seems to have screwed the hd. what a is a master boot record, and if you reformat that, will...
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    save my hd

    So, i have a dell laptop, 9200 it's hibernating. i had an exteranl 250 plugged in. I swapped out the usb for my other 250 when it came up i had to reactivate the drive in computer management. it wrote the first drives index onto the second so now my second drive reads half full, and...
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    hard drive benchmark tester

    I would like to find a free harddrive rating program that measures read write performance, comparing hds would be nice too. anyone know what the standard is for this? any free versions out there? also i'd like to find a regualr cpu benchmarker too. thanks peter
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    Sandisk 1GB MP3 player $112

    on the san disk and freezing up do not fill the san disk to 100% capacity or it will freeze. there is some finite point where it will stop freezing once you free up x space. say about 40megs so even though you sacrifce that space.. you get back a working version. if you filled it...
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    The **OFFICIAL** GMAIL Thread

    if there any more gmails , i''d love one too =) thanks peter
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    Free Tungsten T3 & 25 Trades @ Ameritrade (Requires $10K Initial)

    ameritrade is not cool they are not hot they are a fee driven company that will take your money. they consolidated with datek, and made things worse they have ceo's being paid millions, have had several multi million dollar law suits levied against them and have lost owing millions. and...
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    logitech 5300 5.1 thx $135 amazon

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000C20R9/digitaltrecomcom/102-8915264-3600129 cheapest i've found it. anyone know if the 680's are better for $250? or the 540's for $99 anyone know which is the best for the price?
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    Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates IS BACK!!! [thru 2/9]

    hey i sneezed on my screen, and i wiped it with a tissue (i sneezed while i was sipping milk damn it) and it went all over the monitor. anyone know how to clean this thing? now i have wipey marks on the lcd. how do i clean the lcd properly? thanks pete warm water?
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    pixel dance problem went away when i unplugged hub. windows reported a power surge in the hub. so dont know what thats about, but related to usb for sure
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    [DEAD DEAL] Dell 2001FP 20" LCD for $749 no rebates - NOT 2000FP

    wierdage? I just got a wierd thing with the lcd. the screen had all this noise (green red pure colors like a bad signal or something. turn it off turn it on.. it goes away. windows reported a usb power surge, so i unplugged my usb from the monitor.. seems the problem went away. so i think...
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    HYPERX PC 4000 RAM 512 FOR 119$ @ bb SMOKING HOT~Update NO MIR at Frys!

    i bought the pc4000 kingston about 2 weeks ago at BB for 140 pricematched from fries. do they do a competetive retro pricematch even though they came down from 199 to 140? thanks
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    z640's for 66 bucks

    wow guys thanks. but now i'm thinking, i have gotten some bonus cash, and from what a i read, there is a huge difference in the quality of the speakers as you go up. (noticable) so what would be the next one up from the z640s...
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    z640's for 66 bucks

    z640's for 66 bucks is that good? http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?DEPA=1&sumit=Go&description=36%2D121%2D104&searchdepa=1
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    Dell 2001FP LCD Review and Comparision to 1900FP

    hehe, i had just stumbled onto the user setting before i read this so it's a total acknowledgement that i did the right thing. although I recommend 45 52 52 because for me the images where coming out too red. so i'm surpressing the red slighly and pumping more green and blue to get a better...