Posted on 04/26/2010 1:40:21 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Maybe i’ll load Quake II on it as well. :)
My old Lattitude CPI 250 Mhz laptop with only 128 megs of ram runs XP ok, except that IE8 is a bit of a drag on it.
It was much faster when it had IE7 (and IE8 doesn’t like the FR posting window at all!)
I used to have to fix those laptops for a living as a computer tech.
Unfotunatley my old company Unisys took on the money loosing Dell account.
After the 400th LCD replacement procedure the job started to get a little boring....
By then i was glad to be laid off.
Spelling........
There were companies that were struggling hard to be competitive with Claris, but when Apple gave up on it most of them went over to Intel PCs running DCA or Eaglepoint over AutoCAD.
Now even Eaglepoint has given up and Bentley is gaining some of their market share, but Autodesk is the real winner of it all. People that don’t know Autodesk are having a hard time in this job market.
Laptops are miserably limited and inflexible hemhoroids in a lot of ways.
If the new york slimes can get away with publishing documents that put our soldiers in harms way, surely Gizmodo should be protected by the First Amendment as well.
Personally, I thought the entire storyline that went with this was great reading, and good journalism. Tech stuff is what these guys do. Until they got the letter from Apple claiming the property they didn't know for sure that what they had wasn't some chicom knock-off. (which it could have easily been).
I understand Apple's desire for secrecy, as they use it as a marketing tool, but I really don't understand folks jumping on Gizmodo's case about it.
Thats hot.
While working for Unisys Corp handling the god awful Dell laptop account we were eventually instructed by Dell to not refer to them as “Laptops” anymore.
We were told to call them “Notebooks” in front of the customers.
Something to do with low sperm count or whatever....
If the new york slimes can get away with publishing documents that put our soldiers in harms way, surely Gizmodo should be protected by the First Amendment as well.
The crime wasn't the writing of an article (or several articles) -- so "freedom of the press" is safe -- no worries there. LOL ...
It might "clear it up" for you if one was to consider that the police would be doing the exact same thing -- even if the articles were never written and no one in the public knew about this (and what happened) -- if the police had come across the information about the crime that was committed, by other means.
No, the "crime" wasn't "the article" that was written. The article that was written only let the police become aware of the crime that was committed.
SO..., that's why I said, earlier (up above) -- if you're going to commit a crime -- don't write an article about it and don't get on TV telling the world about it. That's how stupid criminals are caught, doncha know ... LOL ...
I have a quad-core Q6600 2.4 GHZ running in this PC.
Since the day i bought it a year and a half ago i have been running it overclocked at 3.4 Ghz.
Even with the most demanding programs running it never goes over 83C. Idles....let me check....around 36C per core.
I do have a nice aftermarket cooler though. It does gets pretty tight inside those laptop cases.
what is 100C? That is the boiling point of water i believe.
They should call it the I-Skillet. Cooks Bacon and eggs while you surf!
As they would say say south of the border, it’s a good way to cook the juevos.
... apple bail out ...
That wasn't a bailout... although many who are uninformed have perpetrated that myth. What it was -- was Intel and Microsoft getting caught for taking Apple's code in some of their work. That came back to bite Microsoft in the butt -- and they paid for it. That was part of the settlement deal that was worked out for how Microsoft would pay for it. I hear there was more money paid to Apple, of an undisclosed amount, to settle with Apple and also cross-licensing agreements made to finally put the settlement deal to rest -- to the satisfaction of Apple.
I'm sure Steve Jobs loved hammering Bill Gates on that one ... LOL ...
I was under the impression that in the 90’s MS made it so their Office Suite would run on an Apple.
They did it to avoid the the imminent collapse of Apple computer and to avoid the monopoly that came with that.
I really don’t know, follow or care though.
No, it was the settlement of a possible multi-billion dollar lawsuit against Microsoft by Apple ... I’ll get the information for you ... be back ... :-)
San Francisco Canyon Company was a software developer company that was contracted by Apple Computer in 1992 to port the QuickTime technology to Microsoft Windows. They made their first release of QuickTime for Windows in November 1992.
In July 1993, Intel contracted the San Francisco Canyon Company to improve the performance of Microsoft's Video for Windows technology on Intel processors. By the end of 1993, Intel and Microsoft had combined their efforts to improve Video for Windows by creating a joint technology called Display Control Interface, that was included in version 1.1d of Video for Windows.
The lawsuit "Apple Computer v. San Francisco Canyon Co.", filed on December 6, 1994, alleged that the San Francisco Canyon Company used some of the code developed under contract to Apple, in their additions to Video for Windows. Apple expanded the lawsuit to include Intel and Microsoft on February 10, 1995, alleging that Microsoft and Intel knowingly used the software company to aid them in stealing several thousand lines of Apple's QuickTime code in their effort to improve the performance of Video for Windows.
On March 3, 1995, a Federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that prohibited Microsoft from distributing its current version of Video for Windows. Microsoft subsequently released version 1.1e of Video for Windows, that removed all of the code contributed by the San Francisco Canyon Company, stating in the release notes does not include the low-level driver code that was licensed from Intel Corporation.
Later testimony in the U.S. D.O.J. Microsoft anti-trust trial revealed that, at the time, Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over the allegedly stolen code, and in return Bill Gates was threatening with the cancellation of Office for the Mac. In August 1997, Apple and Microsoft announced a settlement deal. Apple would drop all current lawsuits, including all lingering issues from the "Look & Feel" lawsuit and the "QuickTime source code" lawsuit, and agree to make Internet Explorer the default browser on the Macintosh unless the user explicitly chose the bundled Netscape browser. In return, Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office, Internet Explorer, and various developer tools and software for the Mac for the next 5 years, and purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock. The companies also agreed to mutual collaboration on Java technologies, and to cross-license all existing patents, and patents obtained during the five-year deal, with one another.
Court Order on Microsoft
Published: March 3, 1995SAN JOSE, Calif., March 2— A Federal judge issued a temporary restraining order today halting the Microsoft Corporation's distribution of certain files in its Video for Windows developer kits, Apple Computer Inc. said.
The order was granted in response to a request by Apple in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft, the Intel Corporation and the San Francisco Canyon Company.
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Hahaha violate it and apparently you forfeit all your apple gadgets hahahahah.
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