Here be more computer gibberish
Dec. 27th, 2007 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsySo um.. yeah, there was Christmas. I was Santa Bob again.
For anime club this coming weekend, I will (likely) not be bringing my laptop but instead my new-ish PC. This is because I've discovered the 1GHz G4 in my PowerBook has a difficult time with some of the newer codecs and/or larger resolutions that are gaining in popularity, taking several minutes just to load and pre-process the file, or loading it instantly but then gagging on it. Whereas the 2.66GHz dual-core has no such troubles. So far the new-ish system plays well with the projector which is a good sign. As such I am now loading it up with copious amounts of anime. Although honestly, I would prefer taking the laptop. Much, much more portable.
One thing I've also noticed is that it blue-screens much less, so far happening only when I was monkeying with the SATA settings in the BIOS (oh hey I guess I did forget to hit F6 during the install, oops). On the old system? Almost every time I used it, at purely random times, and within a few hours of normal use. As such I'm beginning to think there may have been something inherently wrong with the original hardware, and it only got worse over time. So I never used it much and stuck with the laptop instead, which was stable enough to get anything done, able to run a few weeks between restarts.
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rubian77, I'm still game for picking up the old PC parts off your hands.
Alright now back to murking around in IRC for some more anime.
For anime club this coming weekend, I will (likely) not be bringing my laptop but instead my new-ish PC. This is because I've discovered the 1GHz G4 in my PowerBook has a difficult time with some of the newer codecs and/or larger resolutions that are gaining in popularity, taking several minutes just to load and pre-process the file, or loading it instantly but then gagging on it. Whereas the 2.66GHz dual-core has no such troubles. So far the new-ish system plays well with the projector which is a good sign. As such I am now loading it up with copious amounts of anime. Although honestly, I would prefer taking the laptop. Much, much more portable.
One thing I've also noticed is that it blue-screens much less, so far happening only when I was monkeying with the SATA settings in the BIOS (oh hey I guess I did forget to hit F6 during the install, oops). On the old system? Almost every time I used it, at purely random times, and within a few hours of normal use. As such I'm beginning to think there may have been something inherently wrong with the original hardware, and it only got worse over time. So I never used it much and stuck with the laptop instead, which was stable enough to get anything done, able to run a few weeks between restarts.
rubian77, I'm still game for picking up the old PC parts off your hands.Alright now back to murking around in IRC for some more anime.
