Comments on: Quick note: New TechEd downloads http://khason.net/blog/quick-note-new-teched-downloads/ Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:12:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mr. Sustainable http://khason.net/blog/quick-note-new-teched-downloads/comment-page-1/#comment-1471 Mr. Sustainable Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:50:24 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/quick-note-new-teched-downloads/#comment-1471 <p>I bought my current laptop in a mad dash before a flight. Yes, my old one died without warning and I REALLY needed a full computing platform for my business trip.</p> <p>It was right after Christmas and my local Best Buy had been cleaned out of nearly all of its inventory because of aggressive pricing. I was left with a compromise, the Acer Aspire 5520-5290. If you've read about big time problems with the keyboard sensitivity, let me just tell you that the reports are correct. The thing is very touchy and tempermental but I got it for just $700 US with tax.</p> <p>It came with Vista Home Premium but only 1GB of RAM and 384MB of that is shared with video.</p> <p>Needless to say, when I loaded Pinnacle Studio on it, everything else stopped. So, I took it back to Best Buy so that the local Geek Squad could install a RAM upgrade to 4GB. Much to my surprise, the fact that the store sold the computer to me had no effect on management's decision to stock the necessary memory. I had to order it from Crucial!</p> <p>In the end, it works much better for video editing (although the keyboard remains a POS) and I can't wait to see what Velocity does for its overall operation!</p> I bought my current laptop in a mad dash before a flight. Yes, my old one died without warning and I REALLY needed a full computing platform for my business trip.

It was right after Christmas and my local Best Buy had been cleaned out of nearly all of its inventory because of aggressive pricing. I was left with a compromise, the Acer Aspire 5520-5290. If you’ve read about big time problems with the keyboard sensitivity, let me just tell you that the reports are correct. The thing is very touchy and tempermental but I got it for just $700 US with tax.

It came with Vista Home Premium but only 1GB of RAM and 384MB of that is shared with video.

Needless to say, when I loaded Pinnacle Studio on it, everything else stopped. So, I took it back to Best Buy so that the local Geek Squad could install a RAM upgrade to 4GB. Much to my surprise, the fact that the store sold the computer to me had no effect on management’s decision to stock the necessary memory. I had to order it from Crucial!

In the end, it works much better for video editing (although the keyboard remains a POS) and I can’t wait to see what Velocity does for its overall operation!

]]> By: cell phone blog http://khason.net/blog/quick-note-new-teched-downloads/comment-page-1/#comment-1470 cell phone blog Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:50:22 +0000 http://khason.net/blog/quick-note-new-teched-downloads/#comment-1470 <p>In a recent Vodacom advertisement customers were proudly offered a free Samsung i600 mobile phone, which incidentally included‘ low call rates per second’. There is just one catch, Vodacom did not have this phone.</p> In a recent Vodacom advertisement customers were proudly offered a free Samsung i600 mobile phone, which incidentally included‘ low call rates per second’. There is just one catch, Vodacom did not have this phone.

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