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I'm looking to upgrade the stock internal drive in my 2008 Macbook Pro to an SSD. Here are the drive's I'm looking at right now. OCZ Vertex 2 120GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227551 OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 120GB...

I installed Windows 7 RC1 a few weeks back and since then, my network adapter will not turn on after shutdowns. In order to get bios (and windows) to recognize the built in network adapter, I have to turn off power to the system by turning off the PSU, then turn it on and start up the system...

We have a lounge at our company where customers can watch television, browse the web(currently on a laptop) and generally relax. To make the are more professional looking and cleaner, we've decided to add 2 Dell XPS One systems. The laptop has Xp installed and is setup to login as guest only...

My friend has a Compaq and lately he has had an issue every time he starts it up. Sometimes the screen stays black and nothing comes up. Other times, it gets to the windows startup screen and to the menu where you choose to enter safe mode or not. And sometimes, windows starts up and give a...

$200 on newegg for 2x256 samsung RDram. pretty much exactly what I have now. My biggest concern is RDram good enough for the next gen games coming out this year?

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Seeing the requirments for games like Doom 3 and Half Life 2, I've decided to upgrade to 1gb of ram. Here are my system specs right now. Intel 2.53Ghz (533 bus) 512 Samsung PC800 RDRAM Nvidia Geforce MX440 The video card is being upgraded soon. The issue I have with going to the ram is another...

Thanks for the reply mechbgon. The system is so old that the only thing I will be using is the floppy drive and the case itself and the PCI ethernet card which is pretty new. The power supply I'm not really sure about right now. I will upgrade if it is neccessary.

I'm looking to purchase a motherboard and cpu combo for under 100 dollars. Looking at pricewatch.com, I see many options and I'm wondering which would be the best choice. I've decided to go with the Athlon XP 1700 cpu. I'm looking to upgrade my older pc for my brother. This machine will be used...