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very cool Jeff. Sorry it had to happen to her. People are just careless and irresponsible.

Glad for her that you were around to fix the car

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I haven't driven a new Mustang, so can't speak for how well it shifts. The 06 Mustang I drove had really long throws. In any case NHTSA is inverstigating the car because owners are reporting that they are unable to shift into gears at speed.

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/08/08/f...ission-issues/

Could it just be another floor-mat issue

Triple-H

I agree, that last one is only slightly more, and I like the 90-day coverage, and it is indeed slightly faster and newer
Black or white debate, white is classic Mac for sure, but for a laptop I'm totally fine with black, and interestingly in the used market, the blacks always seem like the go for more money, though not sure why, maybe fewer were made.
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I go to buy, and they pull a f'ing bait and switch on me
The 2.4 GHz item is in my cart, I move forward to do address and shipping stuff and notice it says 2.0 GHz
I figure I must have screwed up so I start over, select the 2.4 machine, put it into my cart, and then proceed to put in data to buy it, and sure enough, the item now says 2.0
I email them and ask WTF???
They say, oh, the 2.4 unit sold, we have this 2.0 version now...
I say


So Ellen or Marc
Would I really see a difference between a 2.0 and a 2.4 uf they were not back to back
Are we talking like Ford versus Ferrari or would it be more like Maserati versus Ferrari

Crazy_Schizo

First off, the bait-and-switch would piss me off to no end. To the point where I doubt I'd buy from them. But that is just me.

I think the biggest difference you would see between the 2.0 and the 2.4 isn't necessarily the processor, but the memory. For $30 the processor jump isn't really all that much between a 2.0 and a 2.4. If you were running them side-by-side, I doubt you'd see too much of a difference. Think an S with bolt-ons compared to a stock S.

The big difference here is the memory. Going from 1GB to 2GB is huge. Memory means a lot more than processor speed nowadays, from what I've encountered.

Tadashi

Wow! Nice body work

Tadashi

What Marc said X 2

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For the kind of money, Doug could just get a new laptop or a netbook (although he is probably too used to MACs to move to Windows)

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Fortune Magazine on Honda's problems

Triple-H

Yes, no chit, but if my only choice is a PC I would rather not have a computer
No internal support, and no software advantages
Take a PC and start buying software and it's a way more costly option, and for a unit I would always hate
In my book, that ain't a deal...
My IT guys would take one look at it and say, get that chit out of here, you saved a few bucks and you are now all on you own, have a misserable day

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They've come quite a ways. MS Security Essentials is a free anti-virus and works well. I have never purchased software for what I need since buying a PC. I use Google docs or open office instead of MS Office. Video editing is also free with Windows Live Movie Maker. YMMV as they say.