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Windows 8 is pretty good

and what makes it so terrible and everyone whine? No start menu? :rolleyes: I haven't had any problems with it. No driver issues, no crashes, nothing.
- Shephard
- Post #5
- Jan 3, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 8 is pretty good

I just bought a laptop over Christmas because the price was too good to pass up on. I don't really need a laptop, but you know... Buy now think later. It's a Haswell i5 with FULL 1080p IPS touch display and an actual decent keyboard. It came with Windows 8 (upgradeable to 8.1) so this was my...
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- Jan 2, 2014
- Replies: 26
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Best way to rip Blu-Ray & DVD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdvdcss
- Shephard
- Post #9
- Nov 1, 2013
- Forum: Windows
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Are there any £100/$100 cases you really like?

Done a few builds with the Corsair 300r. Nice construction, good cable management, and not super heavy. I like the look as well, but you need to fill in the side panel with some fans to touch it up. Define R4 is another.
- Shephard
- Post #14
- Nov 1, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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is Fractal Define R4 with window a good case?

lol this is one of my first topics here. The deal breaker for this case was the price. It was going for $115-120 Canadian, but I snagged it for $89 after tax / shipping. It's definitely one of the better cases I have owned. Great build quality, with the exception of a rivet that wasn't...
- Shephard
- Post #26
- Nov 1, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Best way to rip Blu-Ray & DVD

But why do two steps? Handbrake high profile preset does exactly what bbhaag says. h264 with AAC audio in an mp4 container.
- Shephard
- Post #5
- Nov 1, 2013
- Forum: Windows
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Best way to rip Blu-Ray & DVD

In the past I used a program called DVD Shrink to rip my DVD's to the computer. It also decrypted the DRM. I still have that program's installer somewhere, but I believe the software is discontinued. Therefore, I am not sure if it will work for Blu-Ray discs. I am helping a family member...
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- Oct 31, 2013
- Replies: 31
- Forum: Windows
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Pulled the trigger on a new iMac

Uh maybe you should go read the first page. The OP was excited when he got his new stock iMac. Then he complained that it had a 5400rpm drive... Then he said it was just a 'temporary' model. Who spends money on an low end iMac just to get a new model later when released a few months down...
- Shephard
- Post #62
- Oct 20, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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iOS 7 First Impressions

iPhone 4 If you plug it in at all it will tell you that. I did not charge it once. I used it watching some videos on Youtube, reading, listening to music, text, etc. Screen Brightness is in the middle and background refresh is on. I think the battery life got better with the last update...
- Shephard
- Post #576
- Oct 19, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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Pulled the trigger on a new iMac

your paying a lot for OS X huh... :rolleyes: If your going to spend money an iMac get an SSD or even the fusion drive. External hard drives are so cheap there is no reason whatsoever to skimp out on the internal drive. It's your money, but clearly you don't know how to spend it well.
- Shephard
- Post #56
- Oct 18, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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iOS 7 First Impressions
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- Post #568
- Oct 18, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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Pulled the trigger on a new iMac

My stance has not changed. If your going to spend money on an iMac, why would you settle for weak internal components? 5400rpm drive, really...? You think it's convenient to replace it down the road? Your already paying for overpriced hardware. Might as well pay a little more.
- Shephard
- Post #43
- Oct 12, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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Nexus 7 2013 worth it?

I have been reading reviews on this tablet the last few days. The pros I have read... - Lightweight. - Great display for full HD movies. - Updates directly from google. - Good sound quality. The cons... - Major touch issue. - Tablet slows down after a few months (happened to my LG...
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- Oct 12, 2013
- Replies: 15
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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AM3 vs FM1 stock cooler

I can tell you the FM2 cooler is quiet. I read so many complaints about it being noisy and it's not at all. The AM2 and FM2 coolers have been great.
- Shephard
- Post #5
- Oct 10, 2013
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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i7 920 to i7 970 worth it?

Bad idea.
- Shephard
- Post #3
- Oct 7, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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iOS 7 First Impressions

iPhone 4 vs my LG Thrill 4G.
- Shephard
- Post #512
- Oct 6, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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iOS 7 First Impressions

Phone at 10% battery life today. Started at 100% and have not charged since then. Usage - 14 hours, 31 minutes. Standby - 8 days, 20 hours. Not sure how accurate 'Usage' is. I definitely did not put 14 hours of use in those 8 days. So if the background refreshing counts as usage then I can...
- Shephard
- Post #508
- Oct 5, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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iOS 7 First Impressions

I synced it once just to get the pictures on there. Is there an easy way then just to get certain pictures on to the phone where I can organize them freely?
- Shephard
- Post #476
- Sep 27, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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iOS 7 First Impressions

Why is it when I sync photos from my computer I cannot rename the folder it puts on the iPhone? I can make a new folder on the iPhone and move the photos, but then I have doubles. Because it will not let me delete pictures in the folder I synced.
- Shephard
- Post #472
- Sep 27, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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iOS 7 First Impressions

Just tried it and your right. Really nothing major though. Maybe 3 seconds of waiting and moving the picture isn't super smooth. I cannot complain. Good battery life, good responsiveness, does what I need it to do. I prefer Android, but not the Android phone I have. Not going to shell out...
- Shephard
- Post #392
- Sep 24, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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iOS 7 First Impressions

Using my iPhone 4 on and off for the past few days. Currently at 13% battery life. Started at 100% and have not charged since then. Usage - 10 hours, 25 minutes. Standby - 5 days, 2 hours. Been using the phone for texts, music, took a few pictures, took some very short movies, used the...
- Shephard
- Post #390
- Sep 23, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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Laptop BSOD, beeps, crashing.

It's two 2 DIMMs - One 2GB, one 1GB. I reseated them and so far no problems. Booted on the first try. The thing is my friend never touched them before. He doesn't know anything about computers so they would have never been removed in the first place. I don't see how they could have gotten...
- Shephard
- Post #3
- Sep 23, 2013
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop BSOD, beeps, crashing.

I am trying to troubleshoot this Toshiba laptop but I cannot seem to find the problem. It's a friends and a few days ago he said when he booted the computer it started beeping and he couldn't get past the Toshiba post screen. Second boot he made it past post. He had the options of 'Launch...
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- Sep 23, 2013
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Laptops
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Small form factor case

What are your suggestions for small form factor case? I am building a computer for a friend who wants a small, good looking case. I am familiar with the popular Bitfenix Prodigy. Although it looks good good, some people complain that it's not really a 'Mini' case. It seems to be short, but...
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- Sep 18, 2013
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Would an iPhone 4 be too slow at this point?

Just updated to iOS 7 and it's still faster than my Android phone. Things open about 0.5-1 second slower, but not even remotely close to the painful experience on my LG. So yes I would say this phone is still very capable today.
- Shephard
- Post #47
- Sep 18, 2013
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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iOS 7 First Impressions

Just put it on my iPhone 4 and it's not as bad as I thought it would be. A little bit of animation lag when returning to the home screen, when the apps fade into place. Also a little hesitation when opening spotlight. Apps maybe take 1 more second to open up. Going to play around with it...
- Shephard
- Post #248
- Sep 18, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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Would an iPhone 4 be too slow at this point?

LG Thrill with LTE. Worst phone of all time!
- Shephard
- Post #45
- Sep 17, 2013
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Would an iPhone 4 be too slow at this point?

Interesting responses... I would say yes an iPhone 4 is perfectly fine, but not at the $200 price. That's old tech and of course Apple products are overpriced no matter their age. I bought an iPhone 4 recently for $60 bucks. It smokes my DUAL CORE garbage LG phone. Unless your gaming on a...
- Shephard
- Post #41
- Sep 16, 2013
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Any speculation on next Mac OS? (Replacement for OS X)
- Shephard
- Post #7
- Aug 26, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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Any speculation on next Mac OS? (Replacement for OS X)

Have you even been using Mac OS X since the beginning? Just from reading your post I highly doubt it. In those 12 years it has changed plenty. The first few versions of OS X were horrible. Buggy, slow, beachball of death, on and on... It had one thing over Windows and that was it's looks...
- Shephard
- Post #6
- Aug 26, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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Where can I buy a Haswell T CPU?

why not just buy a Celeron?
- Shephard
- Post #5
- Aug 24, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[TOM'S] AMD inter-generational CPU shootout

Phenom II is such a great chip. I have tested it with many modern games and it holds up very well.
- Shephard
- Post #174
- Aug 21, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Rendering - Old CPUs vs New

Good Idea. :thumbsup: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 @ 2.3ghz - 17 minutes 26 seconds. This will be the last test using the 17gb raw file. The reason is it doesn't fit on my USB drive and copying it from my external hard drive takes forever. Next tests I do I will record a smaller raw file.
- Shephard
- Post #33
- Jul 28, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Rendering - Old CPUs vs New

Ok, I encoded the video on the i7 with Handbrake. It finished in about 4 minutes which smokes every other CPU tested here. So perhaps like I thought, the Mountain Lion version of Avidemux is poorly coded. I am confident the other Avidemux Mac tests are accurate though. Compare say the Core...
- Shephard
- Post #31
- Jul 25, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Rendering - Old CPUs vs New

I haven't updated this topic in a while since I was busy. Here are 2 new additions. Intel Core Duo @ 2ghz. This was the top of the line cpu in the first Intel iMac. It took 52 minutes to render which is pretty sad. Don't forget though that the Core Duo is 32 bit. Next up is the Intel Core...
- Shephard
- Post #30
- Jul 25, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The IBM Powermac G5 Quad

Here's an old CPU some may be familiar with and others not. Thought I would share. This is my PowerPC 970MP. It's a 2.5ghz 'Quadcore' - 2 CPU PowerPC processor. This was in Apple's final Power Mac G5 and it was there top of the line computer before the introduction of the Mac Pro in 2006...
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- Jul 21, 2013
- Replies: 7
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The Hackintosh Thread

I don't know what is wrong with those people at Tonymac, but any mention of a nvidia chipset and you will be banned. Nvidia must have threatened to sue them.
- Shephard
- Post #308
- Jul 12, 2013
- Forum: Apple
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How is the health of my SSD?

I didn't post this thread to show scores... I want information on CrystalDisk - INFO. Sorry for the confusion. I just left the scores up because I was testing stuff. As I already said. This is a SATA 3 SSD on a SATA 2 port. I didn't touch anything in bios so that's probably why the speeds...
- Shephard
- Post #6
- Jul 9, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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How is the health of my SSD?

128 views and no response? So clearly I am not the only one who doesn't understand CrystalDiskInfo.
- Shephard
- Post #2
- Jul 8, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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How is the health of my SSD?

I just got another SSD because the deal was too good to pass up. I got my original 120gb Kingston for $75 after tax. This one, a 240gb, I got for $150 after tax. Right now it's just in this test system which is SATA 2 so it's not taking full advantage of the SSD. I just wanted to make...
- Shephard
- Thread
- Jul 7, 2013
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Memory and Storage

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