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IBM T42

The warranty you are aiming for is about $120 bucks with the product code 30L9192. That is a 3 year depot warranty extension from the 1 year depot warranty on the 2378FVU. The warranties that you have listed are for accidental damage. I hear the depot service is great so don't waste your money...

I actually saw one (quantity = 1) Aeron at Costco of all places. It was my size too (medium).

I think the chair you are referring to is the Herman Miller Aeron chair. ~$600-800 bucks right? Very very nice chair. After all the dot-coms went belly up over here in Northen Cali, everyone was trying to score an Aeron from a bankrupt dot-com on the cheap. As for the dream computer, no idea...

My floppy drive is like super duper old. It came with my first computer back in 1991. Old school heavy as hell TEAC 3.5 floppy drive in old-style funky beige. Funny thing is that there are so many types of beige/white nowadays that it doesn't look too bad in my Antec 835 case. I am also sure...

fourth. Man. Apple was right with that 1984 commercial. Big brother, ugh, IBM does have drones all over the world. But thats only cuz they make kick ass hardware! yeah!

I would go for a network backup (with another computer) and clean install. You'll find that you'll have oodles more storage without that pesky rapid restore crap on your computer eating up space.

I have a 2 yr old notebook with a totally DEAD battery, died a little past 1 year. It is a Dell Latitude something or other, I got it for free so I don't really care. It actually depends how much they wanna charge you for that warranty and if you are a person prone to break things. I personally...

Just curious but is the stock P4 3.06Ghz Heatsink/Fan unit the standard looking heatsink fan with the copper bottom or the prettier sunflower-looking unit all the tech sites get with their reference CPUs from Intel?

Heh, funny you mention it because I jut realized I lost my Palm V. Just shows you how much I care about B&W PDAs.

Intel is not THAT bad. The name might be crap but the tech is really there. Everytime new tech comes out from any company the marketing team always gets a whack at it to fool the idiots. C'mon, everytime the stock FSB is increased some marketing guy out there adds a few busswords and it turns...

Honestly, it depends on the amount of crap you wanna put up with in building a new system. If you can't handle any bad crap going awry, get a Dell. The Dell, in this case, will deliver less performance. RAM latency is higher, non-Hyperpath (no PAT) mobo but that is about it. I am guessing you...

This is probably useless information because it is just STUPID but I know a guy that used K&N car air filter material for his computer filter. Works GREAT. Very non restricting, the ionized oil in the cotton filter caught every bit of dust but the filter is ridiculously expensive for a computer...

Nah. The P4P800 has the same 3Com Gigabit LAN that runs off the PCI bus and not the CSA bus in the North Bridge like the Intel board. Funny thing about the performance of the Intel D875PBZ, I thought it was almost identical to the other Canterwood boards. Anand didn't use the D875PBZ in the...

If you aren't going to overclock, then go with the 3.0C Retail. Lose the Alpha PAL8942T and the Panaflo and stick with Stock Intel cooling which is more than adequate at stock speeds. Switch from the Asus P4P800 to the Intel D875PBZ (by far the cheapest Canterwood mobo with Intel CSA Gigabit...