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by OgreMustCrush
Sun May 07, 2006 9:03 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: ooooh....
Replies: 1
Views: 2944

ooooh....

Is it just me, or do the specs on this chassis look very hot for the price.

http://rjtech.com/s96j.htm

Only problems I can see are weight, and (comparitively) small 6-cell battery. Note that this is not really a heavy laptop, just that I have been mainly looking at 14in. and smaller models.
by OgreMustCrush
Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:09 pm
Forum: General Computer Forum
Topic: You Know you are a computer enthusiast when...
Replies: 98
Views: 41064

When your daily essentials consist of: a watch with a pda built in, an internet enabled cell phone, an ipod(with video no doubt), a laptop, multiple thumb drives, and all the cables to hook them together and charge them.
by OgreMustCrush
Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:26 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: ASUS Z71 Thermal Pad Removal To Reduce Temperatures
Replies: 48
Views: 64294

Heh, the coldheat. I got one of those at costco, was on sale, and came with a fancy case, and the wire cutter/stripper thing. Works fine for small wire joins, but as for soldering that heatpipe to the base, no way. You need some serious heat for that, remember, it is an assembly designed to pull awa...
by OgreMustCrush
Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:01 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: Laptop Chassis
Replies: 1
Views: 2753

Well there are a bunch of sites where you can buy laptop chassis. Two well known ones are http://www.rjtech.com and http://www.abspc.com/diy/notebookdiy.asp . We actually have a forum devoted soley to the discussion of laptop chassis here, which you can find at http://forums.legitreviews.com/viewfor...
by OgreMustCrush
Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:56 pm
Forum: General Computer Forum
Topic: G15 logitech gaming keyboard
Replies: 26
Views: 14361

Here's a review of that keyboard. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1870600,00.asp As for me, I perfer my cheap logi ultraflat keyboard to any other I've ever used. I actually have a spare just in case. I noticed it's the same one used on the test setup on the recent vapochill micro review ...
by OgreMustCrush
Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:48 pm
Forum: Forum Contests - Giving Back To Our Readers
Topic: November Contest #1: AOpen 1558J Notebook Chassis
Replies: 107
Views: 81120

I'm looking at getting an MSI MS-1012 eventually, but alas, I have little money. If I could win a barebone, that'd be great.
by OgreMustCrush
Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:16 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: *Chassis and Parts help PLZ
Replies: 5
Views: 4794

Meh, I knew about them. Before they merged, Coboc had a better selection. I usually look at rjtech or directron for barebones chassis. Directron has a really crappy selection, but good prices, which is good. Rjtech is the opposite...
by OgreMustCrush
Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:57 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: Anyone Interested In Building a Notebook?
Replies: 25
Views: 20407

The similar looking AMD version does have the blue LED backlighting. http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/product_s ... el=MS-1013 I'd rather go with a Pentium-M though.
by OgreMustCrush
Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:52 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: Good Chasis With out a vid. card
Replies: 9
Views: 7268

Ah, didn't know that was codename of theirs.
by OgreMustCrush
Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:44 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: Anyone Interested In Building a Notebook?
Replies: 25
Views: 20407

You know, I could even give up discreet graphics for this beauty.
http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/product_s ... el=MS-1012
It's only ok in black, but it's damn hot in white.
by OgreMustCrush
Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:57 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: Good Chasis With out a vid. card
Replies: 9
Views: 7268

Eh, no pun intended... What was pun?
by OgreMustCrush
Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:39 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: Good Chasis With out a vid. card
Replies: 9
Views: 7268

Heres nvidias write-up on it, as they were the ones to develop it. Its an open standard though, so if ATI wasn't being so bullheadish, they can use it too.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/mxm.html
by OgreMustCrush
Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:24 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: Good Chasis With out a vid. card
Replies: 9
Views: 7268

I believe he's referring to the new MXM graphics cards. Supposedly you should eventually be able to just go buy one of these cards and swap it out, independent of the manufactuer of the laptop chassis. However, I have yet to see any standalone MXM cards being sold.
by OgreMustCrush
Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:19 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: Anyone Interested In Building a Notebook?
Replies: 25
Views: 20407

Yeah, wow -- that battery life does suck... When I was looking in its user manual, the battery did look pretty small, guess I should have figured. Curse, it had taken me so long to decide on a barebones. Back to the search...
by OgreMustCrush
Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:11 pm
Forum: General Software Programs
Topic: Looking for some help!
Replies: 21
Views: 9946

Oddly enough, the unistaller from the spyware site was what worked for me. Didn't have network problems on my end, but you can try this: http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm and see if it works. Basically you remove anything other than mswsock.dll, winrnr.dll, and rsvpsp.dll.
by OgreMustCrush
Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:33 pm
Forum: General Software Programs
Topic: Looking for some help!
Replies: 21
Views: 9946

I installed that spyware in a virutal machine. I'll tell what it takes me to remove it.
by OgreMustCrush
Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:53 pm
Forum: General Software Programs
Topic: Looking for some help!
Replies: 21
Views: 9946

Hmm, I was sure I've taken it out with spybot before though.
by OgreMustCrush
Sun Oct 02, 2005 1:47 pm
Forum: General Software Programs
Topic: Looking for some help!
Replies: 21
Views: 9946

Have you scanned in safe mode with any of the antispyware programs. That usually does it.
by OgreMustCrush
Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:57 pm
Forum: General Mobile Computing
Topic: Uniwill 259EN3 Notebook Chassis Retailers
Replies: 7
Views: 8301

According to the user manual, there should be a similar model with a 1680x1050 screen resolution somewhere. If anyone can find this version, please post.
by OgreMustCrush
Sun Oct 02, 2005 12:27 pm
Forum: General Computer Forum
Topic: AMD vs Intel
Replies: 32
Views: 14875

Well, in my opinion the best notebook chips are Intel's Pentium M. AMD's Turion is somewhat promising, but doesn't yet have much market penatration. Though, saying that AMD chips heat up too much for laptops is just plain out ignorant. If you take Intel's P4 and AMD's Athlon 64, they are both pretty...