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What ram did you get and what ram type does that laptop take?

I bought a memory foam pillow at the same time as my new mattress from The Original Mattress Factory. I'll have to check the brand name on the pillow later but it's very comfy.

No pics yet but I'm in the process of buying my new source, an APL Denon 3910 (with digital input).

those are some fantastic pics!

the qualias have a pretty low impedance if i recall correctly.

happy b-day justin!

Just a thought, instead of focusing on finding a career you'll enjoy why not try to pick up a few new hobbies?

While I really do enjoy the O2+KGSS rig if you have the space for a good speaker rig it's not even close really.

release date announced today

You should replace those screws with black ones.

nope

Reading comprehension helps, K & K

Has anyone ever built and/or heard one of these? It looks pretty interesting to me, having transformer coupled output and all.

Totem Rainmaker

way too much treble energy and not enough midrange

details, details

only 900 into 8? give me a pair of these

I wonder what the parts cost is on that thing.

Wow that looks amazing

get on dell chat for support and they give you the # of a phone sex line:

Blu-ray is pretty taxing and it's only been the last generation or so of video cards that even have hd video playback support anything prior to that and it's all on the software decoding and the cpu. The Phenom cpu in that machine certainly has enough power to do software decoding. Watching a blu-ray on my laptop (8800M GTX), with the video acceleration turned on has about 15-20% cpu usage.

For wireless cards, honestly I think the best are the built in intel wireless nics that many laptops come with these days. For routers, I've had better luck with linksys and netgear stuff than I have with others. Another option I didn't think of before was to use a wired router and then just get a seperate wireless access point (some wireless routers can run in access point mode only).

I'd avoid trendnet at all costs, their stuff is absolute garbage. When it was working, was the signal strength lower than you'd expect? One other possible solution you might want to try is something like this.

Well there is already a waddragon user on audiogon so who knows. The waddragon user thats there has 2 positive feedbacks both as a buyer.

I tend to agree with Dan for the time being hybrids are more about showing other people that you care about the environment. Also the break even point on most hybrids right now is somewhere in the neighborhood of 7 years. Unless they can bring hybrid costs down very soon, they aren't a viable solution IMO. People have already started changing their driving habits and I think it'll continue, year over year for the month of April the miles driven in the US went down by 1.4 billion miles. We really need to focus on increasing the supply, we need to able to do off-shore drilling and do more drilling in Alaska. With the speculation going on in the Crude Oil futures and the increasing demand from China/India raising the supply is the only real way to stop the runaway pricing.