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Thanks for the tip on checking the memory. I'll give memtest+ a run through this weekend. I'm sure I ran an extended memtest when I built the system initially, but it might be worth it to run it again. But having looked at this as a disk issue for so long, I never thought to think of...

Hi, I've got a slightly older MSI 785GM-E65 that I built as part of a system in October '09. It runs a quad core AMD (Propus?) that I haven't overclocked. Originally I built the system with 2 OCZ SSDs (Agility 2), eventually adding a third (Agility 3). The system has always been just a game...

I'll add another further note. My wife and I have separate iTunes accounts. We have separate iTunes libraries. We share music, movies and Apps with each other and have our laptops activated for both of our accounts. Apps she buys for her iPod Touch work on my iPhone and my iPad. I don't...

Pretty much. And part of it too is that you mention "iPhone" in a news piece and people are drawn to it. The end result is endless coverage to keep advertising dollars up. Ultimately it becomes endless advertising for a problem that may or may not be a problem anyway. You don't hear about...

And just to add a note to this thought, save states have existed in apps since before iOS4. If it didn't support it then you should have been bugging the developers for it. It's just a more predominant facility now in the API as well as a bunch of other backgrounding APIs.

the $1k model is also a SERVER replacement model (it comes with OS X server which is $500 on its own). And coincidently aside from missing the optical drive which is negligible, the upgrades in it make it cheaper than upgrading the base Mini to it's CPU, memory and single 500GB drive...

In a laptop the hybrid drive loses it's luster quick. You now pay for the spinning drive again in battery power and the potential for lost data in moving the laptop around and damaging a platter. Stick with a straight SSD. If you want cheap go with an OCZ Agility, if you want good, go Intel.

You might want to invest in a kill-a-watt and find out if your pc is really using what you think it is. The power rating that you're worried about is just that, a rating, and not what it draws all the time. If you have a proper power supply and power profile, the system may only be using as...

I'll say I'm impressed they're only requiring you to buy the game once. It's all too common for companies to want you to buy their stuff over and over.

Yes. I bought a netbook for work and for home browsing habits. The netbook was always terrible for lap reading in the living room because it wasn't wide enough like a 13" wide format laptop. The lack of width made balancing it horrid and unwieldy. And worse if I wanted to lounge in any other...

Yeah, I went with the wifi only version because I could use my Verizon xv6700 tethered. Having my own iPhone, I've seen where Apple and ATT play together to limit the content available to maintain consistency, I don't like it though I do agree with them doing it. I am likely to buy my own...

I've handbraked a ton of dvds to the "Universal" setting so I can play on my Xbox360, iPhone and AppleTV which gets saved as .m4v's . They play on my iPad too. I can't tell you about the down sampling though because I'm only doing DVDs from my collection which aren't even 720p to begin with.

Yes I have. I have an older xv6700 hacked to run an older free WMWifiRouter. Works well for me at work where my 3g on my iPhone is spotty. However I just ran a test at home using the speed test app where I thought I had pretty good evdo on the phone. 3G iPhone on 3G did 964 down/357 kbps...

I realized that at home, I have wifi. At work, I have wifi. At my parent's I have wifi. At my wife's parent's house I have wifi. Those are the primary places I'll be using mine. The only time I don't have wifi for any length, is when I'm mobile in the car for the once a month 4 hour car...

No your assumption is that you have another piece of hardware(the flash drive). Mine assumes that my friend's laptop has a common built in piece of hardware for all laptops, a wifi adapter which would at the least be able to open an ad-hoc connection with my iPad. There is clearly a need to...

I'll echo that experience. For now it is a very good option to keep the screen from being scratched that adds very little bulk and weight to the overall device. I plan on getting a sleeve that will support the iPad in the Apple case though because I don't feel like it offers enough...

Please, the sarcasm isn't necessary and is inflamatory. In your example I connect to the network my friend is on with my iPad, start up "Files" and my friend drops his music into my WebDav (browser accessable) drop box. Or I upload them to my DropBox account... or have them emailed to me...

I've recently added Sketchbook (Autodesk's app) to my iPad as well as Plants vs Zombies. I can't stop drawing. The app is WELL worth playing with and I think in time, given practice, people will be able to turn out quality sketches and using the platform. PvZ is fun and this is the...

Vague response. Please elaborate.

Maybe the local news sites need to keep up with the times, I mean they moved to flash video, they can move forward to HTML5 supported formats.

User experiences may vary. The big screen makes maneuvering easier overall. For me, sitting with legs up in front of me on the couch or in bed, laptops puts my wrists in an awkward pose. It's harder for me to casually browse. With the ipad, I can type one handed while holding the device...

The nice thing about LogMeIn is that it takes care of firewall issues as well as any IP issues. This is good for setting up remote access to computers on networks you have little control over and can make it easier for those that you do. My only complaint is that they don't really have a Linux...

No one is overpaying, we're telling the original poster to sell on ebay. He should be able to get a fair amount of the value back on his macbook pro.

No. There is no camera device to connect. There is going to be a dock adapter that will allow you to connect a digital camera and the sole purpose is to import pictures direct to the iPad. If you want to get your parents an iPad, they should still have a "real" computer, the iPad is NOT a...

Your argument seems to be based on the assumption that P2P is the only way to get media on either type of device and it's not. And no, on a tablet pc it's not necessary but that doesn't mean it is better. But falling to the assumption that P2P has to be the method for obtaining your media...

Why on earth would you want to run torrenting from a device that isn't meant for storage, isn't meant for high performance networking, it's mobile so on 3g you're not likely to want to waste your bandwidth (particularly on outbound traffic), wont let you run it in the background and overall just...

The HP tablet is an MS product. I'm sorry, but if tablets of the past show anything, it's that developing the Tablet to work around windows is a bad idea. That's not to say people don't or can't use them, just that they aren't a success by now, there's something wrong with the formula and it...

...and camera. The built in speaker is a little weak too by comparison.

You can use time machine to restore a "fresh" installation to the new machine. For all intents and purposes, CCC is completely redundant. Time Machine is an end to end system image and backup solution. If you get a new machine, you would also have an option to put the old machine into...

"...so I wasn't his hdd to bite the dust that quick." Then that was your fail. Data is data and expect to lose your primary copy. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that most drives that fail, fail earlier in life rather than later.

There's already a light sensor on the 3G. Using a camera to do that would likely burn far more energy.

You can get a low end harmony for $50-60 and well worth the price I might add.

I'm not sure what you mean by split end connectors, do you just mean standard Y connectors? But I do know that using an integrated solution presents the possibility of interference from the rest of the motherboard. This would likely be the case if you had the same problem from your other...

And he went crazy for the original iPhone, people said it was a flop and couldn't do all the things that were necessary for the phone, and now it's one of the most successful consumer phones/device ever. Yawn for pessimism. The iPad is exciting, you're just part of the unimaginative flock...

Same, I'm already planning on selling my HPmini.

Why does that suck? If the whole springboard interface is basically a "favorites" page anyway, why wouldn't use it? Most of the website conversions to app versions are better at browsing the site than the web pages are anyway. Rather than chew another post I'll edit in my other thoughts too...

Well the idea is yes, you could run the mini onto your theatre, and then you need a method of control that allows you to either play music on it or from a shared library. The thing about airtunes is that the device (the appletv or the airport express) appears as remote speakers, so I can play...

Ok, I was planning to buy a MacMini for my theater setup but I bought my in-laws an AppleTV for Christmas (they need ease of setup) and was surprised to learn that you can not only store and stream to an AppleTV (which I already knew), but you can use the AppleTV to turn your theatre speakers...

If you're on windows I think you'll find Handbrake is going to dissappoint you.

Go bareback if you can bear the scratches, otherwise a Speck case all the way. I love mine.