Recent content by pat

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    Which Computer is Better?

    If I was going to choose, I would get the first one. The AMD APU is a very well balanced system the offer balanced cpu/gpu power, especially for visual task. The second one is weaker on graphic and good on CPU while the third one, well the third one has the slowest cpu of all 3, so not really...
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    iOS 6.0.2 Users Report Increased Battery Drain

    A Bad DayKinda reminds me of AMD's first Phenoms' flaws. Stability or 10% performance hit. you mean the bug that only AMD has been able to reproduce and never really cause problemto anyone, me included? One of, if not the mostoverhyped bug in CPU history...
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    Rejoice! Google Maps for iPhone is Here

    Be0wulf22What did they do to it?? It's nothing like the previous app we had. It works about as well as opening up googlemaps.com in safari. Disappointed. You're opening it wrong.
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    Solved! What to look for in CAD laptop

    I think that 1700$ for a student laptop is way too much. Consider 800$ laptop. I just looked at the recomendation for Autocad and they don't ask for serious hardware. So, I wouls say a good dual core, 4 gigs and a fast 7200HDD. I would also look at laptop with the new Fusion APU from AMD. Maybe...
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    How to reinstall my windows 7 on my notebook on a new hard disk

    yes, just find an oem windows 7 dvd, install it and register with your own key. The key is not linked to the dvd, so any dvd with the same version should do.
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    Solved! Student Laptop 3ds max

    lots of RAM, large HDD if rendering animation, decent video chip and screen resolution depending if he want to play HD video and fast CPU at least dual core.
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    Solved! Freezing up problem

    you may be victim of nvidia chipset that caused recall some time ago... google..
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    Solved! Need advice on buying a lightweight, powerful laptop

    get something with ATI radeon HD3200 and a fast dual core AMD or Intel, 2.0 GHz and at least 3GB RAM. That will do the job.
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    Anybody still using Avast?

    I think it is the Avast/Zonealarm combination that is the problem. Avast, when I tested it with kerio firewall was OK, iirc.
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    Anybody still using Avast?

    I was too using Avast and ZoneAlarm. I had slow internet too. After trying to find the the solution, I tried the security suite offered by my internet provider, F-Secure. With it, my connection was all good and speed was great (10Mbits/sec connection). But F-Secure was a bit too much intrusive...
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    Video Capture Stops

    Damn.. I told everybody your problem was the motherboard, so now I have to contact everybody again to tell them it was the sound card...
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    A Good Software about edit video

    Don't bother with 10. Full of bug, and not really performing better than 9 ATM. You can read the post about it in the pinnacle forum
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    Pictures on DVD !

    You are 1 year too late for your answer, but may help someone else anyway..
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    Backing up Hollywood VHS to DVD

    I did it with some VHS of demo I got over the time. You need a capture card. Maybe the macrovision protection will prohibit you to make good copy, but there is some way to disable it. I know that ATI software enable that, but maybe some kind of video card don't. Google is you friend here...
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    A Ideal System for Video Editing

    Don't put editing and encoding in the same processor basket... Editing rely primarly on fast HDD and RAM rather than on the processor while encoding is a processor job. Which processor is best?? Both! Some task will run better on Intel, other on AMD, so at the end, it will be a close match...