... to him. Even Symantec has been a great company... they've just gone overboard with the Internet Security Suite and have no clue how to control the monster they've created, IMHO. Others, more computer savvy than yours truly, may well have different experiences, but I won't have ANY experiences with a Norton product again. This one, though is a relatively innocuous app that might do ...
...of adding another 2 gig. DDR2 is ridiculously cheap now. What's in the current box is waaaaaaay over on the other end of the scale. Checked out the prices on RAMBUS lately? That's why I wanted to upgrade at least to a new motherboard, because I could do that for the price of a gigabyte or two of RAMBUS memory. I'm gonna have to wait and see on the video/sound this new one comes with......
... machines. I don't need to change out mb to upgrade. That might be a deal breaker...not that I'm putting any ... RAMBUS were the bleeding edge and I'd never had a bleeding edge computer. Wish I could still say that. The RAM was my main issue. ... has latency issues, which goes a long way toward explaining why my computer just slows way down on occasion. It'll do fine for a ...
...AND I will now have two machines. I don't need to change out mb to upgrade. That might be a deal breaker...not that I'm putting any money into it 'this'... to mention a much better video card...really could use that) are all in the direct upgrade path on this one. I changed out/upgraded the processor last year when heat sink fell off and toasted it. A couple hundred more mHz cpu is ...
...pm, "Olin" <oli...@comcast.net> wrote: I scurried around their website and found a significant upgrade over my machine... a factory-refurbished Gateway, using an ASUS motherboard and a 1.8 Intel dual core .... Plus, it's been out a year or so now, so I'm guessing there are a few upgrades and service packs to load first time it goes online. It was just like setting up XP, minus...
...of XP Pro with Service Pack 2, all I gotta do is find the right drivers online and upgrade... er... downgrade to that O/S. Worth noting, XP takes less resources and Vista does not ...but I don't know) and not all that much with photographs. That's one area for potential upgrade after a few other purchases, such as an LCD flatscreen monitor and USB audio interface. All in all...
... drivers from Gateway, you can find them on Asus' support site. Entirely likely. I'm gonna keep upgrading this box for the time being. I've been using the same mb for several years, as there's still an upgrade path via additional (and faster) memory and faster processors (although both are still way behind the bleeding edge ...
On Jan 27, 11:12 pm, "Olin" <oli...@comcast.net> wrote: I scurried around their website and found a significant upgrade over my machine... a factory-refurbished Gateway, using an ASUS motherboard and a 1.8 Intel dual core processor... complete with most of the bells and whistles, DVD/CD combo read and write, Personal Media Bay, USB 2, digital camera card reader, a 500 GB SATA II ...
jakdedert wrote: My main upgrade strategy is to find a copy of XP Home to put on. I've limped along with 98SE for so many years; but now some mainstream software is not ... build quality....that's how they get the price down. If your only use is email, office type stuff, cruising the net etc. all you really need is an upgrade to XP.....and Linux dual boot is also an option. jak
Olin wrote: Did the research to upgrad this seven year old Gateway P-4, using ... DDR 2 would cost me about $350, and upgrading to USB2 and/or Firewire would add a...I scurried around their website and found a significant upgrade over my machine... a factory-refurbished Gateway, using ... do is find the right drivers online and upgrade... er... downgrade to that O/S. Worth noting,...
