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I'm planning to buy a laptop. As I haven't owned a laptop before, would like to know the best laptop to buy with following criteria's in mind:
1. Main target is to do programming with Microsoft Technologies (VS2008/21010, SQL Server etc..)
2. Less than or equal $670
3. Better performance
4. Flexible to upgrade
6. Doesn't matter on Size and weight (  i am healthy enough to carry)
7. Doesn't matter on maintainence and support (As i am buying from US, but not belong to US)
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Tiger456 wrote: 1. Main target is to do programming with Microsoft Technologies (VS2008/21010, SQL Server etc..)
So you need lots of memory and a seriously fast HD, preferably solid state.
Tiger456 wrote: 2. Less than or equal $670
Ok forget the harddrive, and add the memory yourself after buying it.
Tiger456 wrote: 3. Better performance
See number 1.
Tiger456 wrote: 4. Flexible to upgrade
Are you sure you want a laptop?
Tiger456 wrote: 6. Doesn't matter on Size and weight ( i am healthy enough to carry)
I've heard that one before, heavy laptops tend to be stationary, really, they do!
Tiger456 wrote: 7. Doesn't matter on maintainence and support (As i am buying from US, but not belong to US)
If you're buying a brand laptop you'll get the support worldwide whether you want it or not.
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Take a look here[^]. It's a UK based site but some of the information is likely to cover PCs that are available worldwide.
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No one has ever been sacked for buying IBM, or so they say.
Our Organisation owns 13 Laptops. 3 of those are Second Hand IBM's. When it comes to Support and Standard of Mechanical design, IBM wins Everytime.
Bram van Kampen
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IBM sold their PC business some years ago, I think to Aptiva.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I think to Aptiva
Lenovo, at least for their Laptops.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Henry Minute wrote: Lenovo
Age and brain fade prevented me from finding this name in my memory 
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Google for online discount codes. I saved 20%+ on my Lenovo laptop doing that 2 years ago. As long as you don't care about "voiding the warranty", you should upgrade memory and the hard drive yourself. Many manufacturers charge 100+% of the new part price to upgrade a component that might be a 10 minute install.
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I lost track of the original driver discs for my machine. After I reloaded XP I only have USB 1.1. When went to Microsoft update site to update it to USB 2.0 (successfully). The Microsoft site did this by scanning my system and did the update automatically. There seems to have no way for me to install that driver manually.
I want to archive the USB 2.0 driver for XP on my machine, say save it to a CD. However, I don't know how I can download it from Microsoft site. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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USB2 drivers are included with WinXP Sp2. So there are basically no manufacturer that bothers with making special drivers for USB2.
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What I don't understand is I reinstalled XP, then put SP2 and SP3 on it. Both SP2 and SP3 were downloaded from microsoft.com. After that when I plugged a flash drive to the USB port I got the message:
This USB device can perform faster if you connect it to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port. For a list of available ports, click here.
This message appeared in a ballon box popped up from the system tray area.
After I put the update from Microsoft on, the message no longer appears. Why the SP2 that I installed does not contain the USB 2.0 driver?
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Just a hunch: maybe the updater told you you had to reboot the system and you didn't?
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
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You don't need to install SP2 if you're going to install SP3. Microsoft servicepacks are incremental.
Other than that I really don't have an answer. Sorry.
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Regarding SP2 and SP3: I did install SP3 first, believing that it contains SP2. However, for some reason SP3 could not be successfully installed. The error message told me that SP2 had to be installed first (which is contrary to what I thought). That's why I installed SP2, then SP3.
I have USB2 working. I just wanted to save a copy of the driver so later if it happens again, I just need to pull out the archive to install the driver, instead of relying on a network connection and the availability of the driver somewhere in Microsoft's web site. Not a big deal. Thanks for your help.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: You don't need to
I would call that cumulative.
incremental to me means you have to do them in sequence.
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
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Of course, This is not my day, and coffee doesn't seem to help.
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loyal ginger wrote: This USB device can perform faster if you connect it to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port.
That means that the driver is installed and working. USB may be optimized for quick removal (in which case Windows doesn't cache much) or optimized for performance (and then Windows will cache some, but corrupts your drive if you yank it out while reading).
Default setting is "quick removal". You're getting a hint from Windows that the current setting is not ideal. Your USB device can perform faster - just as it says in the balloon.
I are Troll 
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Hello guys,
I jsut recently baught a Asus 23" Monitor and its working great, but my problem is that it is currently only working with the VGA port. The wirte is connected to the VGA port on the monitor and to a DVI on the Graphics card via an adapter from VGA to DVI.
Now i wanted to connect the monitor to the graphics card via a DVI to HDMI cable and when I tried this the monitor isn't displaying any picture it just says no signal. I tried DVI-I to HDMI and DVI-D to HDMI cables and still no difference. The only difference is that when i use the DVI-I to HDMI cable the monitor said no signal found and when i used the other one the monitor didn't even display a message.
My Graphics card is BFG Nvidia 9800 GTX if that makes any difference.
Can anyone please help me with the problem your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you from adavance.
Regards,
Christian Pace
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Have you tried the button on the monitor to switch the input it's looking for a signal on? If it's looking on the VGA input you can send all the HDMI you want and it won't do a lick of good.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Yes OFC im not that stupid. When i change it to HDMI it says no signal found.
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Hi...
we are used dongle in our application.. if once the dongle was safe remove .. that must be unplug and plug is manually .... i need first of all is possible to activate problematically not like unplug method... if is any command prompt, please share with me....
Thankyou
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Please reply.
I have the source for This, but it is in Delphi 3, and too old for C# or C++
Can anyone convert/rewrite the source to C++ or C#?
modified on Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:00 AM
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Thanks, but i did get the LED's working, It is just the servo app sending the pulses that has a problem, the sevos are a bit shakey and moves a little every few seconds by itself. I got the Delphy 3 source, but cannot find delphy 3 anymore, and would love to get my hands on C# or C++ code that would move the sevo's.
Please if there is anyone out there that can help i would really appreciate this. 
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What I meant was, you could modify the code from the articles to suit your purposes. It shouldn't be hard if you know what kind of signal is required to drive the motor. I'm assuming you already have the interfacing hardware.
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