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jeremy:
I think you'll find the Lite-On to be the better burner. 6 years ago they were a joke, but now I'd take one over a Plextor any day. You might have done a little better by going with the 16x NEC Newegg carries, it's a bit faster on the RW media, but either way that's a sweet system. I'd be interested to know if the Sony burner gives you any guff when trying to copy movies and music (DRM stuff).
Oh, and lucky you, Ubuntu Edgy came out this week so you wont even have to bothered with that Mico$oft junk! That'll save $200. :)
badval:
I have the NEC3500 burner & like it a lot. Had to use different firmware to get it to change bitsetting & after that was a great drive for me. I'll go back to it if either of these don't work as well.
I think the Sony drive will deal with copy issues like any others - IIRC Sony doesn't actually manufacture it - it's OEMed & just Sony branded. Will have to try it & see though. I wouldn't be surprised if it had riplock though. I shoul dhave spent some time on CDfreaks or similar researching, but for $30 ea + a known good "spare" it doesn't matter much.
sledjunkie:
I just bought 86 HP NX6310 laptops for the hospital I work at. These are going to be true mobile wireless devices as they are all mounted on a clinical carts in which clinicians will be using our main Electronic medical application throughout the hospital. We're not gaining much as far as performance with the Core Duo as our application is hosted on a 50 server Citrix farm, and the processing and memory for the client app is all being done on across the 50 servers (again Citrix). The servers are HP DL360’s, dual CPU, 4GB of RAM, , and running Windows 2000/2003 server. We get about 40-50 users per server.
The real benefit to the Core Duo processor on these laptops was the power savings, which when using wireless mobile carts, battery life was certainly something we needed..
I don't keep up too much these days with the latest desktop hardware, I mostly do server/domain/network design and support now and my focus is in that arena.
Vinny:
--- Quote ---I just bought 86 HP NX6310 laptops for the hospital I work at. These are going to be true mobile wireless devices as they are all mounted on a clinical carts in which clinicians will be using our main Electronic medical application throughout the hospital. We're not gaining much as far as performance with the Core Duo as our application is hosted on a 50 server Citrix farm, and the processing and memory for the client app is all being done on across the 50 servers (again Citrix). The servers are HP DL360’s, dual CPU, 4GB of RAM, , and running Windows 2000/2003 server. We get about 40-50 users per server.
The real benefit to the Core Duo processor on these laptops was the power savings, which when using wireless mobile carts, battery life was certainly something we needed..
I don't keep up too much these days with the latest desktop hardware, I mostly do server/domain/network design and support now and my focus is in that arena.
--- End quote ---
Hopefully you cleared that equipment with your Clinical Engineering Dept! I know wireless devices can play havoc with some medical equipment ... I had a call a few months back that a new telemetry pack was all noise on the central station monitor, I asked if the person was on a cell phone - no, a laptop, I told the nurse have the patient put the thing away - problem went away!
I have a hate/hate relationship with the hospital's IT dept - I never met a bigger bunch of wasted technicians in my life ... before you get mad I'm talking specificaly about the hospital I'm at! They can't even change out hard drives without someone telling them what to do. They say NO more times than any technician I've ever met. Heck they change IP addresses on networked devices without telling anyone and then the equipment doesn't work ... sorry about my rant.
Talking about computers, my youngest bought a game for the computer we have and it won't work. I was thinking about upgrading the video card and adding some more memory. I went onto Dell asnd found their new E510's are going for about $699 with 19" monitor. I just bought a 19" LCD monitor - I could upgrade for about $520 ... I told him buy games for his x box instead!
sledjunkie:
HAHA, Good stuff Vinny.
Ahh yes the clinical engineering dept...
Yes they are aware, and in fact (per the clin eng dept) our desktop technicians scan each cart before deployment. Not sure what type of scanning it is, it's some sort of device they need to use.. To be honest I wasn't too involved with that part of the process so I'm not sure what it's scanning for..
Too bad you don't have a good relationship with you're hospital's IT dept... I've been at the hospital for about 5 years now, and before that worked at a small software company during the whole dot com boom, so I understand where you're coming from.
The problem with some IT folks is they SHOULDN'T BE IN THE IT INDUSTRY in the first place".. It became so popular the past 10 years everyone wants to be in it.. I say 50% of IT folks today are in the wrong job. You have to have a love for it, and be good at it.. Many many many IT guys don't know the first thing about troubleshooting. I see it every day. It's a shame.
This is one of the biggest reasons you see alot of strange attitudes from IT depts. It's because they either don't know enough to either answer your question, or to solve your problem.
As far as games and PC's.. I recommend picking up an Xbox 360. It's quite the system, and actually does quite a bit more than just gaming.. It acts as a media center extender for your home theater for example. Pretty neat stuff MS has done with the Xbox 360.
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