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Yeah, I thought about that too, but taking $100 laptops from little, starving, third world kids makes me feel bad. I wonder if MIT is considering an unsubsidized version for chubby first world kids....

I'm looking for a device that could work for high school students.

I had a look at cheap laptops, but they all seem to be more than we really need. I've seen some of my kids use a hacked PSP for...

I agree with the AA, it does help way more than cranking up the res. Thanks for the opinion on wireless, I hadn't heard problems, but after hearing madpistol's angle, I was getting nervous. I...

I've got the noise covered, the case is a sonata II, it's incredibly quiet. I'd planned on putting it behind the wall mounted lcd tv, which should help too.

The only way to get satisfactory...

The gaming desktop (amd64-4600x2/1900xtATI) currently lives in a corner at a pretty traditional looking work station. I'm thinking about getting a Spectre Komodo 32" LCD tv (here) that seems to do...

Thanks, that's just what I needed. I looked at Ubuntu (I'd heard nice things), but the requirements for the regular version was way to heavy for the old beasts at school. Xubuntu sounds like a...

It was nice to see a syspot thread pop up on email again, I haven't been by in ages. Teaching high school will do that to you... Maybe that's a good reason to go digging up old threads, just to get...

I just tried the 10 day trial. Great game, not a fan of the milking-scheme, I mean payment plan. I thought I'd fire this at Blizzard and see what they say. I'll post any reply I get...


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No worries. I installed w2k on it, everything worked perfectly, no problems. Apparently the OS it was 'designed for' doesn't want to work, but one of the future OSes does. All drivers were...

... which would lead you to ask the question, "why buy an HP computer if they provide NO SUPPORT WHATSOEVER for drivers and such?"

I am baffled as to why anyone would buy one of these things. ...