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| In my experience...
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And I can only speak from personal experience here. I figured I would chime in.
I'm in my 3rd (or 4th, depending on how you count) year of Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo in......
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Jun 11, 2004 at 03:52 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Quick Test
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I just did a quick test on mine. I have the performance set to reduced on battery power, and I brought the LCD screen to its lowest setting. I am not doing anything graphical that would require heavy...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on May 5, 2004 at 02:54 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Are they hot: Not yet.
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Well, so far at least.
At 4:32 today, my PowerBook arrived. I've burned about 8 DVD-R discs in a row, and I've been doing other stuff at the same time. Running the processor at 100% the entire time,...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Apr 30, 2004 at 12:52 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Order Shipped
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Man am I ever jazzed about this.
Shipped on 4/24
Ordered in the evening, on the day of release.
15" BTO with the 5400 rpm drive and extra VRAM (of course!)
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Apr 24, 2004 at 01:12 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Re: SHIPPED BOOOO YAAAAA
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Your first Mac!
Lucky you... You'll enjoy it.
Still waiting here.
I think I'll be last in line here because I'm Canadian. ;)
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Apr 22, 2004 at 11:09 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Open
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I ordered a 1.5 15 inch BTO, including a faster HD and 128 video memory, on Monday evening. The order is still open. I'm replacing my rev. A Ti 500 MHz.
I am expecting good things. No doubt....
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Apr 21, 2004 at 09:07 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Televio Card Troubles
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Oh, I paid for one, so I guess I purchased it. But got nothing for the money.
So I ordered a Televio card (direct from the company) and they charged my credit card for it. I never got anything and...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Oct 20, 2003 at 06:45 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components |
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| Televio Card Troubles
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So I ordered a Televio card (direct from the company) and they charged my credit card for it. I never got anything and the company would not give me any further information. They told me they shipped...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Oct 20, 2003 at 06:44 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components |
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| Televio Card Troubles
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So I ordered a Televio card (direct from the company) and they charged my credit card for it. I never got anything and the company would not give me any further information. They told me they shipped...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Oct 20, 2003 at 06:43 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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| Televio Card Troubles
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So I ordered the Telvio cards (direct from the company) and they charged my credit card for it. I never got anything and the company would not give me any further information. They told me they...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Oct 20, 2003 at 06:42 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components |
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| Televio Card
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So I ordered one of their cards (direct from the company) and they charged my credit card for it. I never got anything and the company would not give me any further information. They told me they...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Oct 20, 2003 at 06:40 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components |
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| Televio troubles
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So I ordered one of their cards (direct from the company) and they charged my credit card for it. I never got anything and the company would not give me any further information. They told me they...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Oct 20, 2003 at 06:37 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components |
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| Re: ibook goes dead
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I personally don't know 100% for sure if your problems were caused by the drive overheating, but it certainly sounds drive specific. What I do know is what the flashing folder icon meant: It means...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 12, 2003 at 04:35 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Mysteriously Dead iBook
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I have a snow white iBook with 384 MB of RAM sitting in front of me. Its the DVD model with a 500 MHz clock. The machine has not been overclocked. The bottom of the case has been painted blue.
The...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 9, 2003 at 04:48 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Sounds in Microsoft Word
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I know how to turn the notification sounds off in Entourage. But for the life of me I can not figure out how this is done in Word.
These save, open, paste, etc. noises annoy me to no end, especially...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Jun 22, 2002 at 05:12 PM, in Applications |
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| From www.cbc.ca (http://www.cbc.ca)
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From www.cbc.ca (http://www.cbc.ca)
Yeah, people joking about this pisses me off.
Now I won't even SAY what I'm thinking right now, after reading this story.
You can all draw your own...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Apr 18, 2002 at 11:41 AM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| Americans bomb and kill Canadian Allies.
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From www.cbc.ca: (http://www.cbc.ca:)
It seems to me like the Americans have been making a LOT of mistakes lately. Killing their own, and now killing ours. I'd like to know what other people...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Apr 18, 2002 at 10:34 AM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| I just thought I would point this out.
Has...
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I just thought I would point this out.
Has anyone else noticed that its always referred to as "Jaguar" or "the next version"
Why does everyone assume it -will- be labelled 10.2?
I haven't seen...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Apr 17, 2002 at 12:05 PM, in Mac OS X |
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| There is always a background humming noise.
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There is always a background humming noise.
The best way to check if the fan is on is to look. I kid you not.
When running the computer, just pop off the keyboard. If the fan is running, you'll...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 28, 2002 at 01:03 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Hmmmm....
When I was younger, I used to love...
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Hmmmm....
When I was younger, I used to love the Iron Man cartoon.
George of the Jungle was always good, but it was on too early. I almost never caught it.
Then there was Sonic the Hedgehog.
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 28, 2002 at 12:53 PM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| My personal best:
8600/300
This machine was...
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My personal best:
8600/300
This machine was WICKED for a long time. (The 9600 was probably better but it was too expensive for me at the time so I have no basis for any judgement)
It still is...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 26, 2002 at 03:51 PM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| From TO, by car, you could probably make it to...
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From TO, by car, you could probably make it to Manitoba in about... 16 hours. But you'd be REALLY pushing it. I mean, no stops or breaks of any kind other than to gas up. No food or meals. And you'd...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 21, 2002 at 01:13 PM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| Just a comment to confirm what someone else...
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Just a comment to confirm what someone else mentioned:
You can forget the big things.
When there's a girl hanging around you the next morning who has always been sorta a friend but never really...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 20, 2002 at 01:57 PM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| Will not work on a Mac.
Lindows uses Wine. ...
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Will not work on a Mac.
Lindows uses Wine.
WINE IS NOT EMULATION.
Its a recursive acronym.
And since you won't catch me dead owning a beige PC, I won't be using it.
Although if I had to use a...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 19, 2002 at 03:33 PM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| I used to chase beavers in Twin Lakes with a...
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I used to chase beavers in Twin Lakes with a friend of mine. We used a canoe. Beavers can move awfully fast. Especially when we were using paddles and the beavers had huge head-starts.
Plus, when...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 19, 2002 at 01:36 PM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| Yeah, I want a copy BIG TIME.
Please.
I...
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Yeah, I want a copy BIG TIME.
Please.
I have to say - lately I've been downloading all the old Futurama episodes I've missed because of its horrible time slot.
Its the only TV show ever that's...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 18, 2002 at 01:18 PM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| GeForce 4 Ti.... Mmmmm....
I got my shipping...
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GeForce 4 Ti.... Mmmmm....
I got my shipping confirmation yesterday.
But it wasn't mine, it was friend's
But he wasn't my friend. He was a rabid wolf.
And he ate my feet right off.
Wait......
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 14, 2002 at 01:10 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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| Finally. A thread for the rest of us.
I'm an...
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Finally. A thread for the rest of us.
I'm an engineering student at the University of Waterloo.
Maybe someone here has actually HEARD of it.
No one else in the world has.
Although I come from...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 14, 2002 at 07:35 AM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| I actually tried it out.
Mega weird.
I...
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I actually tried it out.
Mega weird.
I could see using it as some sort of propaganda machine on my Ti.
"Oh, nice laptop. You've got XP"
"Yes. But I have a special version. Check out this...
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| Posted by Arcayx, on Mar 12, 2002 at 08:59 AM, in MacNN Lounge |
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