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Post by jmkjr72 on Jul 10, 2008 20:09:45 GMT -5
i am about to take the hammer to my laptop
the stupid thing keeps switching to battery even though its pluged in
thats all right i just went to dell and ordered a new one hopefully have it in a week
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Post by SeñorDonGato on Jul 11, 2008 1:23:29 GMT -5
Im guessing you orderd a new plug and not a new laptop correct?
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Post by jmkjr72 on Jul 11, 2008 18:16:30 GMT -5
nope i ordered a new laptop i just got a new plug for it i think the problem is inside this pos and not the plug
but any way i had to cancel the order when i got to work the co is going to pay for 1/2 of a new laptop for me being i use it so much for work and i had to re order it thru the company
getting an insprion 1720 now that i can afford a bit more comp
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Post by underdog on Jul 11, 2008 19:27:41 GMT -5
Hey jmkjr72, how old was your bad laptop? It seems to me that they are breaking down sooner or maybe its just that we use them more for more things. I had a Toshiba laptop for only two years before it went kaputz. Now I have an imac that I use at home, and this thing better last me a long time.  |
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Post by jmkjr72 on Jul 11, 2008 20:00:14 GMT -5
ive had this inspiron 5100 for 5 years now lots of hard times on job sites and bounceing around in trucks its been pretty good to me over the years
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Post by jdubbya on Jul 11, 2008 21:20:04 GMT -5
Sounds like the jack on the back that the charger plugs in to.
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Post by jmkjr72 on Jul 21, 2008 19:57:05 GMT -5
well the new comp got here today
now i just got to learn to deal with vista
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Post by underdog on Jul 24, 2008 22:07:08 GMT -5
Hey jmkjr72, hows it coming along with Vista? Is it as much a pain as I have heard some people say it is? I also hear it is similar to a Mac.
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Post by jmkjr72 on Jul 25, 2008 19:52:00 GMT -5
it seems ok i have to get used to all the security alerts
every time something updates or you install something you get an alert
i seems to take a bit longer booting up but i have yet to have the wonderfully low memory alert as i went with 4 gigs of ram right off the bat
the only apple computers i have ever worked on was the good old IIe so i have no idea how it compares to a mac
i love the built in blue tooth and wireless
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Post by SeñorDonGato on Jul 28, 2008 17:20:21 GMT -5
People bad mouth Vista all the time and they are stupid. Its a new operating system that needs to have all the kinks worked out of it. I remember when everyone hated xp and said im sticking to 98/2000/NT. Now everyone loves xp but hates vista. The thing I like the most is that they have developed new networking stacks that allow data to be transferred quicker than xp can. Sorry everyone bashes vista only because they expect to know everything about it by the time it boots up. Its like switching cars, it takes a little bit to find out about all the features and quirks. No one wants to read the documentation when they can just bitch about it instead.
And to get rid of those annoying security popups you have to go under the control panel, but I forget where else you go off the top of my head.
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