joshua029

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/prod...uct_id=11038075

will this be good enough for graphic design? i want a desktop and something that will last a few years...

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LordBishek

Looks good to me.

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puffycow

Looks good. It will be fine for all of your Adobe needs (assuming you use Adobe, that's all my roommate used to use).

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DZCunuck

Its alright. The shared video memory is probably that models biggest drawback. Also, the Phenom X4 is a pretty good cpu. If your not gonna be gaming on it, it should last you a few years.

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tsk84eva

2 out of the 3 hp desktops ive had were in that "a" series (older models, mind you), and one i still use today.
i think you'll be alright with that one there.
just try and stay away from the hp slimlines, as they tend to overheat and just shutdown; at least my parents' always did.

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SlinkyBlue

Got a GTS 250 for the video card to try to keep up but to be honest it flat out wont unless I spend 400+ on a card., 8gb of ram, it's really overkill, that's for sure. My dad works for a microsoft-licensed company and got hooked up with two quad-core 2.8ghz due to some product licensing issue.

It's also got Windows 7 evaluation on it. Only problem is that my recording/studio programs don't work very well I'll have to wait for recording more songs until some hosts come out that support W7

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Stormx

All that power and you're not even running Compiz.

SlinkyBlue

Explain?

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Tempoe

Just took apart my imac to put a new HD (you need a special torx wrench that was hell to find here) but it won't find the new drive to format from the install CD disk utility. Might be a broken HD but I doubt it. I am seriously puzzled.

sorry if its a double post, my internet keeps going on and off,

Stormx

Just look up Compiz Fusion on youtube and see for yourself

Simsimius

Well, Vista used around 1 - 2 GB of RAM. Memory I could better use on gaming.
XP used around 500 - 700MB [depending on usage]. Much more efficient IMO.

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SlinkyBlue

That is utterly useless. Why would I want that? Just because someone can doesn't mean you should. Function over fashion, always.

I'm happy with my dual flat screens.

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fumb-duck

Hey guys.
I've been running Ubuntu for a month or so, saving all my files to an external 164GB Hard drive, a couple of days ago my computer froze while playing a video I had stored on it, I simply turned off the computer and rebooted but now I get this error message:



(I'm running on a live CD because I installed a different distro and that went balls up so it's live CD for the time being)

Any thoughts?

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Yup.

666_Pounder

I don't use Linux but thats something to do with the HDDs, I take it you've done what it suggested?

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Guitarfreak777

My mom is offering to buy me a laptop for college. Since she works in real-estate business isn't exactly a booming. So she said 500-600 bucks she could spare so I could get me a decent laptop.

Now I know a lil about comps when it comes to towers, but how different are laptops?

What sort of brands should I avoid and are some things I should always look for in a laptop.

Any help is much appreciated

joshua029

thanks for the replies guys. few more quick questions...

keep the vista or install xp pro? i have the installation disc for pro and prefer pro, would there be any drawbacks from doing this?

i'm not sure, and even more uncertain if the comp didn't come with the vista disc. my hp laptop came with a xp home so wouldn't that come with its os installer?

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paintITblack39

hardware incompatibility may be one drawback.

plus, there's no reason to going to XP, especially since microsoft is releasing windows 7 which is turning out to be an amazing operating system based on the release candidates and betas.

@guitarfreak777: where do you live? there aren't any brands to avoid, although laptop magazine named HP, dell, and acer to have the worst customer service.

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thefoldarsoldar

That link says it applies to OS 9 and earlier...



Yesterday, it didn't matter what file I tried to transfer, I got the same error. It's a Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus. Size = 500 GB. I use the firewire 400 connection. I've looked all over the box and the setup pamphlet that came with it and I don't know what the size is. I don't know what format my hard drive is in, and I don't know if I can transfer files out of it because as of today, it doesn't even show up in Finder anymore when I plug it in. I opened Disk Utility where it recognized it and I ran both verify disk and repair disk and both say that the volume needs repair.

The damn thing's not even 4 months old!

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paintITblack39

there's either an issue with the hard drive inside the enclosure or it may be OS X. try running it in a linux live CD or a virtual machine and see what comes up. if it comes up in those different operating systems, it could be an issue with OS X.

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