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GTI and STI, officially.

Although there are lots of GTIs about... aren't there?

I count VW and Peugeot to begin, both GTI.

And I suppose there are lots of STIs about too, and I view owning any one of them with about the same amount of joyous rapture....
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Subaru Technica International = STI

GTI/GTi is a funny one. Some manufacturers use GTI (Volkswagen). Some use GTi (Ford - Escort Mk5). Some use both (Peugeot 205/309 GTI; 206/306 GTi). It depends wholly upon the car in question.
 
Famine
It depends wholly upon the car in question.
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And whether they were using caps lock, or just holding down shift.

I saw you had posted last and thought you'd be adding to the exhaust discussion since yours is a touch louder now...
 
daan
And whether they were using caps lock, or just holding down shift.

I saw you had posted last and thought you'd be adding to the exhaust discussion since yours is a touch louder now...
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It's barely even a smidgen louder. A mote. A mere trifling iota.
 
All of sudden, my brain went all Friday Night Live.

Who can forget Harry 'Loadsamoney!' Enfield's "Ford Escort XR-Free-eye Turbo Nutter Bastard!"
 
I got a question concerning laptops.

I'm trying to get ready for college, and I figure I'm more than likely going to need to get a laptop of some sort. The thing is I don't really know anything about computers spec wise. All I know is the bigger the number the better, but I don't know what makes a computer poor, average, or great.

Thats basically what I need info on, whats good memory and etc.

I'm going for Graphic design so I'll probably have some PhotoShop or at least GIMP on it. I'm going to need a good word processor. I'm probably not going to be putting any games on it, I don't even have any on my home computer now. I think having a laptop capable of writing CDs would be helpful. And as of now I only have a little over one gig of music so thats not going to be taking up much room. It needs to be able to connect wireless to the schools internet. The most I'd add to it would probably be a rocket dock or something.

Anyways, if I could get some info on this, maybe even some specific examples would be great. My budget as of now is right at $1000.

I found this one that doesn't seem too bad.
 
After a bit of searching, this was all the information I could find for a laptop around $700, from another forum posted by a user with the same question:

HP Pavilion 15.4" Widescreen Notebook PC (DV-6449-US) - $750 after rebates
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Spe [...] on.do#tabs
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56
160GB hard drive
2GB of DDR2 memory
Built-in 802.11abgn wireless
Windows Vista Home Premium
Processor speed: 1.80GHz
Weight: 6.8 lbs.
Built-in webcam
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 graphics
Built-in 802.11abgn wireless

Would another question be appropriate at this time?
 
don't get an hp unless you properly vent it with a notebook cool and if you don't plan on playing games.

mine thinks that when it reaches about 90 degrees F it should shut down and it doesn't like going onto the internet or playing AOE 3, it hands me the blue screen of death.
 
When putting (forcing) a new heatsink onto a new motherboard, how much cracking should you hear from the mobo? It's scaring the hell out of me because it's about a $300 motherboard, and I'm having the worst time getting the last fastener onto the mobo.

Is there anything I can put under the motherboard to spread the force out evenly and safely? How much force is safe, would one suggest?


I have a 780i nVidia mobo, and a Scythe Mugen heatsink:
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superberkut
AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56
160GB hard drive
2GB of DDR2 memory
Windows Vista Home Premium
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That's a bit overkill for what he described? I use a far cheaper machine that does exactly what he wants - Photoshop, word-processing, some music, wireless - with 512MB RAM, and a far cheaper dual-core processor (though a single core is more than enough), though 160GBs of porn space is always a safe thing in a laptop - yet, as Loon said, only a gig or so of music, so even the cheapest 40GB machines should do...

But it's Vista, so it's bound to suck, and eat up all your memory. That's why you need a NASA-spec supercomputer just to start playing Solitaire on Vista.


If I were you, Loon, I'd try to get an older laptop and try not to get it with Vista. That's money saved right there simply because Vista is so expensive. And that's without getting a used XP, or [shameless advertising]just Linux[/shameless advertising].
 
Metar
That's a bit overkill for what he described? I use a far cheaper machine that does exactly what he wants - Photoshop, word-processing, some music, wireless - with 512MB RAM, and a far cheaper dual-core processor (though a single core is more than enough), though 160GBs of porn space is always a safe thing in a laptop - yet, as Loon said, only a gig or so of music, so even the cheapest 40GB machines should do...

But it's Vista, so it's bound to suck, and eat up all your memory. That's why you need a NASA-spec supercomputer just to start playing Solitaire on Vista.


If I were you, Loon, I'd try to get an older laptop and try not to get it with Vista. That's money saved right there simply because Vista is so expensive. And that's without getting a used XP, or [shameless advertising]just Linux[/shameless advertising].
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Find an older laptop, but not a used one? All the laptops I've checked online come with either Vista basic or premium, but with no option to get XP. Do computer stores like Best Buy keep older models with older OS's?

I've been looking at this laptop, but it's got Vista.
 
You can order a computer through Dell with XP on it, I just did it for the office. And if not it's pretty easy to switch a computer back to XP.
 
Loon
Find an older laptop, but not a used one? All the laptops I've checked online come with either Vista basic or premium, but with no option to get XP. Do computer stores like Best Buy keep older models with older OS's?

I've been looking at this laptop, but it's got Vista.
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There was always something weird to me about buying used electronics...

But, back in the XP days you could order your laptop without an OS installed, and save money on the license - I guess you could do the same now, and install XP from a disk...
 
Joey D
You can order a computer through Dell with XP on it, I just did it for the office. And if not it's pretty easy to switch a computer back to XP.
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I didn't think about going straight to the manufacturers site, thanks.

I've heard from plenty of people about how Vista sucks, but has no one made a guide to optimize it yet? I've got one for XP, I'm surprised there isn't one for Vista.
 
No amount of optimization can get through driver-issues, software incompatibility, or just plain sluggishness of the system... SP1 might, but magazines didn't notice a large improvements in their tests. Vista is just so loaded with annoying quirks - the software-block, for example - and gizmos which turn it into system that looks pretty (though not Mac-pretty, either) and slow.


Sticking to XP is better, but Linux even more - though your Photoshop requirement doesn't fit that one. GIMP does...
 
Metar
Sticking to XP is better, but Linux even more - though your Photoshop requirement doesn't fit that one. GIMP does...
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I don't even know what Linux is, and I'm not sure that I want to know. If it resembles windows, XP at least, then I'll look into. But thats why I hate using Macs, because I've used windows from day one, and Macs confuse the hell out of me.
 
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