Recent content by KidzMD

I've been using ASUS laptops the last several years, having previously been a Sager fan, and have nothing but good things to say about them. For what you're looking for either of these might be an option for right around the $1600 price range...

The scrapping software she uses is windows only. And she has a ton of projects saved, which as far as I know can't be imported into memory maker or iscrapbook. So unless you can run windows on the macbook, will need to be a win7 system.

Hadn't looked at the i3's, not sure why I overlooked them. The 14.1" are just at the threshhold, so will have to drag Sarah to bestbuy to size them up. Though I do see there's a 13.3 with the i3 and it's only $50 more, so that's a possibility, though the battery life with the 12-cell listed...

Looking to upgrade my wife's laptop. She's currently using a now 5 year old Dell 700m and while it works, it's starting to show it's age. She does mostly email/web/word/power point but lately has been doing some photoediting and using a scrapbook program and the little system is choking. The...

White LED fan (do they make them?) and pink nail polish. Back when I was case modding, back when the color options for LEDs were clear, red, and green I would use nail polish on white LEDs to get other colors and it worked pretty well. Looks clean as only the LEDs are painted and is cheap...

Had this revelation a few years ago. My family, thankfully, is pretty well off so we would end up giving gifts just to give them, we really didn't need anything. Often it was things you didn't really need or gift cards. What my wife and I decided to do instead was donate the funds to charity...

There is some truth to the concerns, though not as much as the pols would like you to believe. The studies that have been done show that when you look at children that played "violent" videogames compared to those that played a "non-violent" video game the first group showed increased...

Still disappointed you couldn't get something going with Shale...

I'm running the exact rig as setter posted in the pic above, but using a Coolermster v8 and can easily get to all 6 dimm slots. Idling at 30-32, haven't really stress tested it much letting the AS5 set in (I know, I know - other stuff works better but it's what I had at home and I'm impatient)...

Get'em while you can. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150443&cm_re=5870-_-14-150-443-_-Product

Personally, though Freespace 2 was a great game, if there's going to be a rerelease of a Space Flight Sim it really needs to be Tie Fighter.

So if I was going to go with an SSD as my boot drive, would 40gb be big enough? edit: Nm, thought Win7 install was alot bigger than it actually is.

Thanks for the advice on the ram, just had it added as it was highest rated on newegg for 6gb at that speed. I've looked at the lancool, but I like the solid aluminum Lian Li and I'll probably end up using this case for builds for years. I actually have a mid-tower Lian Li now I bought 5...

Ok, looking to upgrade my system as I'm currently on my last build from 2/06 - X2 4400+, X1900XT, etc... Showing it's age badly and since it's been almost 4 years is time to upgrade. Since I'm a little out of the loop on current gear, heres my info: 1) What will you be doing with this PC...