Even better than having five cards in your bag, bring a "backup" power cord for your laptop, complete with the ac-dc adapter - only one "adapter" has been opened up and used to store a flash card or two. Just make sure you also cut the power cord and reseal the rubber so you don't accidentally fry your data!
Er...I'm posting this from a laptop I spent a grand total of $500 on. $400 for a Dell Inspiron E1505, $100 recently to upgrade from 512 MB memory to 4GB (though admittedly, whatever motherboard is in this thing sucks so much that even on a 64-bit OS I only get 3.25 gigs). It has integrated graphics, not dedicated, and yet it's perfectly adequate for anything I need, on Ubuntu or the virtual machine of Windows XP I run from it for games. I can run Half-Life at medium graphics settings at full framerate on my "there's no way", out-of-date, piece of shit laptop, while playing music from my local library or streaming it, running an instant messenger, running Compiz at damn high settings, and nearly anything else I want.
As long as you're willing to plug in a gigabyte or two worth of Newegg memory upgrade yourself, $400 is plenty for a laptop when $400 gets you a dual core processor, 1.73GHz per core.
Of course, the keys keep falling off the keyboard, but that has nothing to do with the computer itself.
Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger more than ever...
Wait sorry, you probably weren't TRYING to make Daft Punk run through my head...
If I had mod points, I'd spend quite a few of them upmodding all your posts in this thread. I know that's undoubtedly one of the reasons I DON'T have mod points, but I'd just like to state my absolute respect for you based on what you've said here. I wrote a lot more, but it seemed inadequate and has been deleted. So...have a great day.
Conventional military thinking does not apply analogously to the internet; you can return fire in real life, but returning fire on the internet isn't always a smart decision.
Returning fire on the internet is called a flamewar.
I doubt anyone outside a few hardcore individual users will use it. The idea of ANY business letting its employees physically modify their hardware is kinda ludicrous, and very few others will both hear about it and have a reason to do it. Hate to do this to my own post, but since I didn't RTFA, I only deserve it...
Disregard that, I suck cocks.
*blush*
I doubt anyone outside a few hardcore individual users will use it. The idea of ANY business letting its employees physically modify their hardware is kinda ludicrous, and very few others will both hear about it and have a reason to do it.
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If you can get punished for inflicting emotional distress, I guess Vista really was illegal...
Even better than having five cards in your bag, bring a "backup" power cord for your laptop, complete with the ac-dc adapter - only one "adapter" has been opened up and used to store a flash card or two. Just make sure you also cut the power cord and reseal the rubber so you don't accidentally fry your data!
Right, because I trust a publicly traded company with all my sensitive data... Oh wait, this is Slashdot, google is always right.
Er...I'm posting this from a laptop I spent a grand total of $500 on. $400 for a Dell Inspiron E1505, $100 recently to upgrade from 512 MB memory to 4GB (though admittedly, whatever motherboard is in this thing sucks so much that even on a 64-bit OS I only get 3.25 gigs). It has integrated graphics, not dedicated, and yet it's perfectly adequate for anything I need, on Ubuntu or the virtual machine of Windows XP I run from it for games. I can run Half-Life at medium graphics settings at full framerate on my "there's no way", out-of-date, piece of shit laptop, while playing music from my local library or streaming it, running an instant messenger, running Compiz at damn high settings, and nearly anything else I want. As long as you're willing to plug in a gigabyte or two worth of Newegg memory upgrade yourself, $400 is plenty for a laptop when $400 gets you a dual core processor, 1.73GHz per core. Of course, the keys keep falling off the keyboard, but that has nothing to do with the computer itself.
I think he was referring to TRUSTS as in antitrust legislation, not trust as in trusted source. At least, I hope so.
Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger more than ever... Wait sorry, you probably weren't TRYING to make Daft Punk run through my head...
Neener neener, I run Linux!
If I had mod points, I'd spend quite a few of them upmodding all your posts in this thread. I know that's undoubtedly one of the reasons I DON'T have mod points, but I'd just like to state my absolute respect for you based on what you've said here. I wrote a lot more, but it seemed inadequate and has been deleted. So...have a great day.
Returning fire on the internet is called a flamewar.
I doubt anyone outside a few hardcore individual users will use it. The idea of ANY business letting its employees physically modify their hardware is kinda ludicrous, and very few others will both hear about it and have a reason to do it.
What happens if I run Cedega from Wubi from wine from a virtual machine of Linux run from wine within linux?