Leopard Delayed to October

[Kamal]

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seems fair..i'm a pc user and i'll never switch.

i love hijacking threads

you sure had me fooled

[miketpoto]

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If you are a gamer, I wouldn't ever suggest getting a mac. I would suggest getting laid though...

[apollo_1444]

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Lmao

[Kamal]

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It's an HP a6030n, and I'm not able to get my wireless keyboard and mouse working.

lmao I just checked the one I had been eyeing and its the same one toasty

Where and how much did you get it for ? Circuit City has it on sale for $719. What have been your experiences with it ? You using Media Center on it ? Have you peeped in ? How many available IDE / SATA slots does it have ?

[toasty]

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lmao I just checked the one I had been eyeing and its the same one toasty

Where and how much did you get it for ? Circuit City has it on sale for $719. What have been your experiences with it ? You using Media Center on it ? Have you peeped in ? How many available IDE / SATA slots does it have ?

I got mine at Best Buy -- can't recall exactly what I spent, but it was in that ballpark. Honestly, I haven't had much of an opportunity to use it yet. It didn't come with recovery disks, so the very first thing I wanted to do -- before adding software, anything at all -- was to create a set of recovery disks. Unfortunately, I didn't have appropriate media on hand (I had DVD+RW, it needed DVD+R) and just got that last night.

My attempts to create those disks was met with limited success -- the first disk was created just fine, but the second failed three different times. I called HP, and they are just sending me recovery disks, which actually is better AFAIC. Pain in the ass, though.

I haven't had it very long, and the time that I have had it, I've been out of town, so I really haven't had much of an opportunity to dip around with it at all. For my purposes, though -- it is a secondary computer, primarily for surfing the web in my living room and MAME -- it has plenty of pep.

[Kamal]

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thought this sucker came with a multi-dvd drive and lightscribe (where you can burn images/text on the front of a disc). Odd that it doesnt come with recovery OR Operating System discs considering it comes with Vista.

I briefly checked the "Computer Rating" thing that Vista has built into it and the CPU and Ram were both rated above 5.0 which is a very good sign considering both of those in my current setup are under 2.4, which means I can swap out my Video card to make this a pretty decent machine.

And since I will be using this mainly for my media center, I think its a decent buy.

What about noise ? Does it heat up and become a hair dryer ?

[toasty]

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it does come with lightscribe, which was one of the draws to HP for me. I can never find a fucking Sharpie when I need one, lol.

Haven't noticed any issues with heat or noise so far.

[Kamal]

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cool, thanks for the heads up. Looks like I will be getting 2 new purchases by the end

[beanzncheez]

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it does come with lightscribe, which was one of the draws to HP for me. I can never find a fucking Sharpie when I need one, lol.

You shouldn't use sharpies on your discs. That is, if you plan on storing data for later usage. They will eventually bleed through the top layer and into the data. They sell the proper markers for cheap too. Something like $2 for a pack of four.

[toasty]

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^^really? Good to know, thx

[beanzncheez]

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Yep. I found that out the hard way. I've got data discs from the mid '90s that I can't read anymore.

[Kamal]

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Toasty, if you get a chance, can you take a peek into the motherboard and let know if this PC has an available SATA pins and how many available empty 3.5" slots there ?

[toasty]

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I can, although I'm at the office now and am heading to the Cardinals game this evening, so it will be a while before I'm back at my house and able to check.

[Kamal]

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np - I'm heading to a circuity city by sunday so I'll find out anyways

[toasty]

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actually going to have to take care of this tonight -- by the time I got back from the game, it was pretty late/I had downed quite a few beers and I didn't think it wise to be pawing around inside a computer.