All windows power-users have faced it. Long boot times, wierd slowdowns and hangs, or even, the dreaded bluescreen. The real bloat lurking behind any installation of your computer, what I like to term ‘age induced snail bloat.’ Depending on how much you add and remove programs, along with what type of programs, will affect how [...]
Livin the 64-bit life
February 20th, 2009 · No Comments
DreamScene Power Consumption
January 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments
If you’re looking out to keep your power consumption low, then stay away from the Dreamscene function built within Vista Ultimate. It looks really cool, and yeah, I love the eye candy, but it may not be worth it.
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Vista Ultimate: Dreamscene
July 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
One of the visual improvements about Vista is ‘Dreamscene.’ This is a feature only included in the Ultimate version, but can be hacked into the other versions. Compared to previous 3rd party addons for other operating systems, this is one of, if not the, first to offload the majority of the work to the GPU [...]
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New GeekPi World Domination Workstation
April 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments
When working to take over the world, one needs a beefy desktop. We here at GeekPi are no exception.
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Vista – The one year mark
February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Microsoft’s Vista is now one year old, and what a year it has been. While the operating system had quite the rocky start with 3rd party drivers and hardware support, it seems that a good majority of the bugs have been worked out.
Personally, I experienced problems with getting Vista to work with the office’s very [...]
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Dell XT Tablet
December 17th, 2007 · No Comments
A bit of an early Christmas present for me. I just got a fully decked out Dell XT tablet in to setup for a user. We’ve actually been a tablet tester (word doc) for Microsoft for sometime now. I’m very excited to break it out and give it some testing compared to our Toshiba tablets. [...]
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Windows Media Center – XP vs. Vista
November 9th, 2007 · No Comments
I bought my first dedicated media center from Dell back in 2006. I came across a deal where I could get one of their, at the time, new 24″ monitors with a Dual Core P4 XP media for less than a thousand dollars. I really wanted the monitor, so I figured it was a good [...]
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A New Personal Laptop
August 5th, 2007 · No Comments
After a long wait, it has finally arrived, my new Asus G1s-A1 laptop. This baby looks sweet. Here’s the breakdown of the features:
15.4 Screen (1680×1050)
Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz
2GB PC2-5300 RAM
Nvidia 8600m Gt w/ 256 MB
160 GB hard drive (upgrading to 7,200 RPM)
All the wireless you can shake a stick at
DVD drive that does it [...]
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