Comments on: Alienware, Firefox, and Motherboards… Oh My! http://muckbeast.today.com/2009/01/15/alienware-firefox-and-motherboards-oh-my/ Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:58:11 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 By: Longasc http://muckbeast.today.com/2009/01/15/alienware-firefox-and-motherboards-oh-my/#comment-852 Longasc Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:00:41 +0000 http://muckbeast.today.com/2009/01/15/alienware-firefox-and-motherboards-oh-my/#comment-852 I am sensitive to noise, too. I can tell you what brand your drive is by listening to the seeking and head parking noise. Western Digital for example, hot, fast, and rather silent, except the clicking noise when parking their heads under power management every few seconds. You can fix that, fortunately... otherwise I would be in hell, as many laptops are sold with Western Digital hdds by default. Even my Samsung laptop does not have a Toshiba/Samsung HDD, but a Western Digital BEVT "Scorpio Blue". I am sensitive to noise, too. I can tell you what brand your drive is by listening to the seeking and head parking noise. Western Digital for example, hot, fast, and rather silent, except the clicking noise when parking their heads under power management every few seconds. You can fix that, fortunately… otherwise I would be in hell, as many laptops are sold with Western Digital hdds by default. Even my Samsung laptop does not have a Toshiba/Samsung HDD, but a Western Digital BEVT “Scorpio Blue”.

]]> By: Longasc http://muckbeast.today.com/2009/01/15/alienware-firefox-and-motherboards-oh-my/#comment-833 Longasc Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:51:30 +0000 http://muckbeast.today.com/2009/01/15/alienware-firefox-and-motherboards-oh-my/#comment-833 1.) Me and most of my friends are convinced by Google Chrome, I like the minimalism. I would like the third mouse button scrolling of Internet Explorer and Firefox, besides that, it is very good. I wonder how Internet Explorer and Firefox are going to counter this. The browser got very bad press, but IE sent data to www.alexa.com, too, not sure why people make such a fuss about Chrome, it (basically) transmits the same data as other browers do, too. 2.) Last year for the first time more laptops/notebooks were sold than desktop systems. At least this was claimed by some magazines, forgot their source. I did not put together a computer for over three years and recently bought a new Samsung laptop. I do not really miss it. As I was younger, it was a question of honor to install the latest graphics card in your system and put it together by yourself. And you are right, Alienware is overhyped shite. Their systems are not better or worse than others, and the real geeks build their own rig anyways. I could not read your article yet, the site is not loading at the moment. 3.) My focus is on getting fans and hdds silent in modern laptops nowadays. Guess I am getting old, as I was younger I was trying to squeeze 1 more Mhz out of my graphics card and processor while providing cooling with extremely loud fans and airflow systems, even water-cooling...^^ 1.) Me and most of my friends are convinced by Google Chrome, I like the minimalism. I would like the third mouse button scrolling of Internet Explorer and Firefox, besides that, it is very good. I wonder how Internet Explorer and Firefox are going to counter this. The browser got very bad press, but IE sent data to www.alexa.com, too, not sure why people make such a fuss about Chrome, it (basically) transmits the same data as other browers do, too.

2.) Last year for the first time more laptops/notebooks were sold than desktop systems. At least this was claimed by some magazines, forgot their source. I did not put together a computer for over three years and recently bought a new Samsung laptop. I do not really miss it. As I was younger, it was a question of honor to install the latest graphics card in your system and put it together by yourself. And you are right, Alienware is overhyped shite. Their systems are not better or worse than others, and the real geeks build their own rig anyways. I could not read your article yet, the site is not loading at the moment.

3.) My focus is on getting fans and hdds silent in modern laptops nowadays. Guess I am getting old, as I was younger I was trying to squeeze 1 more Mhz out of my graphics card and processor while providing cooling with extremely loud fans and airflow systems, even water-cooling…^^

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