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Penelope Periwinkle

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Oct 15, 2009, 1:49:57 PM10/15/09
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I'm obviously going to be in the market for one. It's been 5 years
since I've needed to study up on the superiority or inferiority of all
a computers parts and pieces. I could probably use a little advice. I
think I want to stick with a desktop, not a laptop, and prolly a PC,
not a Mac.

The sheriff's department is taking forever to make the incident report
available, I haven't even turned in my claim to the insurance company
yet, so I have time to browse and compare at this point. My computer
was a Dell, and I was very pleased with it. It was running well at 5
years old, the only real problem was with the Nvidea drivers. I'm
leaning towards another Dell. A quick look at the web site, and I
already have a question.

Should I get a blu-ray DVD player or not? I don't watch a lot of
movies, and about the only time I watch one from a disc on the
computer is when I can't get it to play on the regular DVD player.

Anything else I should be reading up on?


Penelope

Penelope Periwinkle

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Oct 16, 2009, 12:47:08 PM10/16/09
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Possible good news:

The Sheriff's Department called, they took in a lot of stolen goods in
a raid, and they want me to come down and see if I can ID any as mine.
I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but, oh, if I could get just the
tower of the computer back so I can get my pictures and records back,
I won't even whine about the camera or the monitor or anything else. I
haven't backed it up since last December, and it has my last pictures
of Matilda, and the first pictures of Isabelle. Plus, of course, the
programs I downloaded and don't have disks for or passwords and such.

Keep your fingers crossed...


Penelope

Penelope Periwinkle

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Oct 16, 2009, 7:34:26 PM10/16/09
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No Joy.

songbird

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Oct 19, 2009, 4:36:22 PM10/19/09
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Penelope Periwinkle wrote:
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> Should I get a blu-ray DVD player or not? I don't watch a lot of
> movies, and about the only time I watch one from a disc on the
> computer is when I can't get it to play on the regular DVD player.

everything changes so fast, i do pretty much what you are
doing, i.e. read up when i have to.

is a blu-ray player all that much more?


songbird

Penelope Periwinkle

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Oct 19, 2009, 10:54:50 PM10/19/09
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On Oct 19, 4:36 pm, "songbird" <songb...@anthive.com> wrote:

>   everything changes so fast, i do pretty much what you are
> doing, i.e. read up when i have to.
>
>   is a blu-ray player all that much more?

Yeah, about $120 at Dell. I haven't played with other brand
configurations. The more I think about it, and on the advice of He Who
Plagues, I probably will pass on the Blu-ray.


Penelope

Steve Daniels

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Oct 19, 2009, 11:50:55 PM10/19/09
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On 19 Oct 2009 22:54:50 -0400, against all advice, something
compelled Penelope Periwinkle <penp...@gmail.com>, to say:

The best porn is on VHS, anyway.


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Penelope Periwinkle

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Oct 20, 2009, 8:14:07 AM10/20/09
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On Oct 19, 11:50 pm, Steve Daniels <sdani...@gorge.net> wrote:
u-ray.
>
> The best porn is on VHS, anyway.

Oh thanks, now I'm going to have that boom chucka music in my head all
morning!


Penelope

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