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[FilmCamera]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: FilmCamera

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: FilmCamera

Originally posted by: RossMAN
The stock Dell keyboard sucks, is it the little tiny one? Ditch it and buy a decent Logitech or Microsoft for $20 - $60.

Dell De-Crapifier: Format c: Give up and buy a 24" iMac for $1,999, then kill yourself upon the realization that you purchased a piece of sh!t computer.

Fixed.

Fixed.

Fixed.

First you'd post about it on AT with a poll, right?

Well of course.

 

[uhohs]

i like the stock dell usb keyboard. :Q

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: S Freud
Just out of curiosity, why do you have dialup?

Perhaps the picture I downloaded will explain it. I haven't transferred my old photos from my other computers yet, so I had to grab a picture that I uploaded to pics.bbzzdd in the past. this pic is now my desktop. It's a picture of *my* stream; well, at least a few hundred yards of it.
It's too nice out here in the country to give it up for the convenience of broadband. Eventually, they'll run fiber out here. Til then, I'll have to settle for satellite broadband
Otherwise, I can't think of any conveniences there are in more metropolitan areas that I'm missing out on. I recently spent a week in a nice little subdivision of townhouses in NJ; I put more miles on my car that week running errands to stores than I ever put on the car here.

Every Friday evening during the summer, 7 or 8 cars full of people from Rochester and Buffalo go up the road past my house, to their camps. Every Sunday evening, they drive by again, on their way home. I must be nice to get away from all the traffic and have a nice peaceful weekend. I envy them

 

[torpid]

Don't get a logitech keyboard. IMO that would be going out of the frying pan and into the fire.

 

[moshquerade]

you can't get cable where you live?

 

[EMPshockwave82]

Originally posted by: cRazYdood
You need to decrapify your dell.

Rule #1 about buying a computer. Format
Rule #2 about buying a computer. Build it yourself and save a step

 

[j00fek]

any dell is a disappointment

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: S Freud
Just out of curiosity, why do you have dialup?

Perhaps the picture I downloaded will explain it. I haven't transferred my old photos from my other computers yet, so I had to grab a picture that I uploaded to pics.bbzzdd in the past. this pic is now my desktop. It's a picture of *my* stream; well, at least a few hundred yards of it.
It's too nice out here in the country to give it up for the convenience of broadband. Eventually, they'll run fiber out here. Til then, I'll have to settle for satellite broadband
Otherwise, I can't think of any conveniences there are in more metropolitan areas that I'm missing out on. I recently spent a week in a nice little subdivision of townhouses in NJ; I put more miles on my car that week running errands to stores than I ever put on the car here.

Every Friday evening during the summer, 7 or 8 cars full of people from Rochester and Buffalo go up the road past my house, to their camps. Every Sunday evening, they drive by again, on their way home. I must be nice to get away from all the traffic and have a nice peaceful weekend. I envy them

Traffic? Who has traffic?

Hint: Live IN the city. Not suburbs, IN the city. Subdivisions suck, and rarely have much better highspeed than 'out in the sticks' (at least, where I came from). Living IN the city, though, you just walk everywhere or take the mass transit. No traffic to worry about! Plus, better for health, anyway.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Change the mouse and get a better keyboard. Problem solved...

Why the hell is anyone on dialup in this day and age? Hell, I hear they even have high speed in Nigeria.

 

[Shawn]

Did you format yet?

 

[secretanchitman]

make sure you put the dell drivers on a flash drive or use the recovery cd that hopefully has the drivers on it, or just grab the drivers from dell's site, then reformat.

you'll be much happier.

btw, why did you buy dell? should have built your own...

 

[uhohs]

a good deal from dell is cheaper than building your own...

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: FilmCamera

Originally posted by: RossMAN
The stock Dell keyboard sucks, is it the little tiny one? Ditch it and buy a decent Logitech or Microsoft for $20 - $60.

Dell De-Crapifier: Format c:

Fixed.

Seriously. Get yourself an OEM disc of the OS and reinstall with the OEM key stickered on the box. This is the only way to decrappify a Dell.

 

[mrrman]

thats why I build my own...those box builds are crap

 

[TipsyMcStagger]

reformat

 

[TheGizmo]

Originally posted by: uhohs
a good deal from dell is cheaper than building your own...

qft... then when the mobo dies, buy a better one and use their parts which arent too bad most of the time. its mainly just their motherboards and bundled software that blow monkey balls.

but yea, as a rule.. when you get a dell, deltree -y c:\ followed by a d:\setup.exe (winblows)

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
make sure you put the dell drivers on a flash drive or use the recovery cd that hopefully has the drivers on it, or just grab the drivers from dell's site, then reformat.

you'll be much happier.

btw, why did you buy dell? should have built your own...

$750 for the computer, including the monitor.

Monitor sells for around $300 on ebay. That leaves 450 for the remainder. Now, subtract $80 or $90 for the Home Vista Premium; I'm fortunate enough to be eligible for an academic copy (as faculty.) Down to $360.
So, for $360, I have a case, RAM, motherboard (albeit relatively crappy), DVD burner, power supply, processor, and a warranty. It's all assembled for me - I don't have to fart around with it. I can simply upgrade the RAM later on, and maybe toss in a video card if I happen to decide to do some gaming. Not the greatest deal in the world, but certainly not a purchase I would question.

 

[Jawo]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: S Freud
Just out of curiosity, why do you have dialup?

Perhaps the picture I downloaded will explain it. I haven't transferred my old photos from my other computers yet, so I had to grab a picture that I uploaded to pics.bbzzdd in the past. this pic is now my desktop. It's a picture of *my* stream; well, at least a few hundred yards of it.
It's too nice out here in the country to give it up for the convenience of broadband. Eventually, they'll run fiber out here. Til then, I'll have to settle for satellite broadband
Otherwise, I can't think of any conveniences there are in more metropolitan areas that I'm missing out on. I recently spent a week in a nice little subdivision of townhouses in NJ; I put more miles on my car that week running errands to stores than I ever put on the car here.

Every Friday evening during the summer, 7 or 8 cars full of people from Rochester and Buffalo go up the road past my house, to their camps. Every Sunday evening, they drive by again, on their way home. I must be nice to get away from all the traffic and have a nice peaceful weekend. I envy them

Awesome picture!

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

One of the reasons I will never live in the boonies is lack of high-speed internet and HDTV services. Pizza, you seem like a smart guy from your Highly Technical posts.....why not just build your own computer? It's not that hard......if you can do advanced physics problems in your head you can build a computer in a couple of hours.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
One of the reasons I will never live in the boonies is lack of high-speed internet and HDTV services. Pizza, you seem like a smart guy from your Highly Technical posts.....why not just build your own computer? It's not that hard......if you can do advanced physics problems in your head you can build a computer in a couple of hours.

I wouldn't even think it'd take a couple hours to build a computer. However, see the post above about the cost... Simply, with a legal, licensed version of the OS, it's hard to beat the price at Dell.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
The stock Dell keyboard sucks, is it the little tiny one? Ditch it and buy a decent Logitech or Microsoft for $20 - $60.

Dell De-Crapifier: http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38

Awesome, thanks -- I forgot about that after seeing it some time ago.

I just bought a Dell E521 a few weeks ago, and it ran fine out of the box. I installed a vid card and used my own keyboard and mouse (Logitech Media Desktop Elite KB and G5 gaming mouse). Haven't noticed any slowness.

I'm no longer a fan of wireless devices after interference issues. Even if it only happens once every few days, it NEVER happens with wired devices! Tried gaming with my Logitech X700 wireless desktop, and it sucked. Moved that to my HTPC (which I'm using right now).

 

[IGBT]

fairy inside my computer who is slowly sending everything in morse code.

..morse code is wicked fast. Some cw op's use a keyboard for even faster tx.

 

[Imported]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: S Freud
Just out of curiosity, why do you have dialup?

Perhaps the picture I downloaded will explain it. I haven't transferred my old photos from my other computers yet, so I had to grab a picture that I uploaded to pics.bbzzdd in the past. this pic is now my desktop. It's a picture of *my* stream; well, at least a few hundred yards of it.
It's too nice out here in the country to give it up for the convenience of broadband. Eventually, they'll run fiber out here. Til then, I'll have to settle for satellite broadband
Otherwise, I can't think of any conveniences there are in more metropolitan areas that I'm missing out on. I recently spent a week in a nice little subdivision of townhouses in NJ; I put more miles on my car that week running errands to stores than I ever put on the car here.

Every Friday evening during the summer, 7 or 8 cars full of people from Rochester and Buffalo go up the road past my house, to their camps. Every Sunday evening, they drive by again, on their way home. I must be nice to get away from all the traffic and have a nice peaceful weekend. I envy them

I'm jealous. Any fish in that stream?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

DrPizza

I'm very curious as to how well the satelite broadband works, please let us know how your like it! Which company are you going with? Wild blue?

I have recently inherited a place in the boonies that we will use as a weekend getaway and am considering satelite broadband as nothing else is available but dialup and I can't go back there. Been using broadband for too long now, and I would probably end up chunking a good computer in the lake if I tried

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: AndrewR

Originally posted by: RossMAN
The stock Dell keyboard sucks, is it the little tiny one? Ditch it and buy a decent Logitech or Microsoft for $20 - $60.

Dell De-Crapifier: http://www.yorkspace.com/2006/04/38

Awesome, thanks -- I forgot about that after seeing it some time ago.

I just bought a Dell E521 a few weeks ago, and it ran fine out of the box. I installed a vid card and used my own keyboard and mouse (Logitech Media Desktop Elite KB and G5 gaming mouse). Haven't noticed any slowness.

I'm no longer a fan of wireless devices after interference issues. Even if it only happens once every few days, it NEVER happens with wired devices! Tried gaming with my Logitech X700 wireless desktop, and it sucked. Moved that to my HTPC (which I'm using right now).

How quiet or loud is your E521? I have one brand new and I'm considering either keeping or selling it. I'll probably increase the RAM and install a video card.

Any advice you can offer would be appreciated