Timewaster's Guide Archive

well, Me was an incredible bomb, far beyond what Vista was. At least Vista worked. ME didnt work for anything lol. But I would put XP or 7 up against Leopard and Snow Leopard any day of the week. Plus, you also have to consider cost.

My Dell Inspiron at home is a fantastic computer, barely 2 years old now, and cost me only $500 flat out. A new Mac woul d have cost at least $1500 at that time.

5 weeks ago, I bought my wife a Gateway mini-netbook for $350 2.6ghz processor, 4gb SD ram, 250 GB hard drive. A Mac-mini starts at $600 with about half those specs. to match the specs, you need to spring $800. (yes, i did a straigtht up camparison on the Apple site).

Plus, windows is hardware portable, Mac OS is not. I can load windows on a Mac machine, but cannot load MAC on a windows machine (at least, not easily).

I promise you, I can get them equal. windows does not need all those background programs either, they are dunped on their by the specific manufacturer. I can actually get an OLDER WinXP machine to perform better (not graphics) than a brand new Snow Leopard Mac.

I support, in a corporate environment, 15,000 PCs running XP, and 1,000 Macs (split between Leopard and Snow Leopard). On average, I get more Mac calls than PC calls. And I would say 50% of the Mac calls, the OS has to be reinstalled. and sadly, the Mac users are more saavy than the PC users, so it is rare for a Mac user to call up with a simple reboot issue.

I am a fan of whoever makes good computers at any given time. Dell has been tops for about 5 years now, but only for desktops. Gateway, in my opinion, reigns supreme on the netbook side. IBM for laptops (Lenovo, really).

But each manufacturer has models to stay away from, of course, like with Dell, stay far far away from the Optiplex. But Inspirons are fantastic.

Oh, I am sure I could come up with something basic, thats easy. But true world building? I would be bored within the first 10 minutes. Not my thing. Im a Roman, not a Greek

Arafan, i am no troll. Just watching the commercials in HD tells me that, at best, the visuals are low rate. any idiot with a 10 year old MAC could cook up something similar. And ther eis nothing worse than that half-cartoon/half-live feel. Disney's Christmas Carol and Tom Hank Polar Express did the same thing. Both junk.

Miyabi: how is it silly? Oh, sure, the graphics were better than anything made by the syfy channel, but even from the commcerials you can compare to other graphical feats like Transformers, GI Joe, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc. Not even close. And for te budget this movie had, the graphics should match anything that has come out to date.

and you know, I ama geek, a nerd, whatever you want to call me. and I am 40. I know BAD graphics. (Krull anyone?) Maybe you have to be a teen to appreciate this type of animation. I sure dont.

everyone I know in real life who has seen this movie thought it was, at best, a fair to middling flick with poor graphics.

Frankly, I wanted to see this movie before the commercials came out, and now, I dont. so I wont. Might download it when it comes out on DVD, but thats it.

cynic, I noticed that too. there were a few other small, but egregious, logic flaws in it as well. But all in all, I appreciated the movie alot more than I expected to. Frankly, as a long long long time Star Trek fan, I thought the movie would out and out stink. And I am now looking forward to the sequel.

Always be concerned with a problem that "solves itself" lol.

One of my concerns is the dual boot. Sometimes, Windows, any version, will act "funky" if the primary ("C") drive is not formatted to that version of windows specs. For example, if your ubuntu partition is Fat32, and your primary drive, but your Windows is NTFS, that could cause the issues you have experienced. (or vice-versa). this issue is not as uncommon as you may think. Soemtimes, it will work fine, others, well, you may have run across the issue. (This is not specific to non-Windows with windows, i experiences a similar issue about 10 years ago with a Dual-boot NT4/Win2k).

The other could be, like mentioned above, driver related. Since that particular model of laptop was designed with Vista in mind. and since Vista was a complete joke, in order for it to work well, the manufactures jumped through hoops. It could be that updating the drivers worked out the kinks, or you silently downloaded a patch.

If the problem recurs, I would, unfortunately, recommend reloading Vista onto the machine and doing an upgrade instead, as much as I hate upgrades, sometimes it is the best way to go, especially from bad versions of windows and the computers made specifically for those versions. (Think "Windows ME" <shudder>)

Good luck!