electronics

I am a student that needs a new laptop and is having trouble picking out a new one. It needs to be light, a decent battery life, needs to get me through grad school. I hate!!!! windows so I would prefer one without it. I had a durabook and loved the thing because it could take a beating and still work but alas the battery is fried and it is 6 years old so it is time to retire the old thing. I would apreciate any suggestions that are given because xmas is near and this is my present (the sooner I let the rents know the better). (Oh and I would not like a mac because several of my friends have one and I have yet to see one of their computers make it through the year without having to be sent off to apple for some repair.)
Too all those who reply thank you for your help.

every s1 and g10 is listed except that one model. it has to be an oversight, right?

One of the freezers is a little box sized one and is coupled with a refrigerator, and one is a stand up freezer and the other is regular sized freezer on one side and a refrigerator on the other side. I cannot even keep ice cream overnight in any of the three. It gets really soft. Why is this?

DESPERATELY seeking an inexpensive Hi-8 Videotape player...any suggestions?

As far as I know the best we can do is make a chess master or fighter plane.

I moved into an ancient apartment with an oven to match and I need a thermometer that will display the internal oven temp externally, without me having to open the door and lose heat. There is no window on the oven.

I'm looking at some new high performance desk top PC's. The best prices are the ones that are offered in "Kit Form" and I have a minimal amount of experience with desk top mechanics/electronics. However, at work, I have had to exchange hard drives on our HP desk tops from time to time and it didn't appear to be very hard if everything was plug-in and simple solder work, (particularly with good instructions).

Does anyone who has done this kind of thing have any opinions on the difficulty level, (say a scale from 1 to 5, 5 being the hardest)?

I don't know if this would help you in your answer but I have a high mechanical aptitude, (25+ years in many high precision giant and micro machining projects), and a basic understanding of micro electronics, (ie; capacitors, resistors, diodes, transistors, etc.), as well as about 20 years using solder irons on small electronics found in most pc boards.

Where can I find reviews and opinions online for Toshiba 32AV502R 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV

Where can I find a great deal online for Toshiba 32AV502R 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV

In the 3.0 iPod software Apple introduced some new "features". One was welcomed: addition of A2DP Bluetooth stereo audio streaming. The problem is now when I plug my new iPhone 3GS into my car dock (it's already paired on Bluetooth), the iPhone wants to route all audio, including iPod stereo, over the Bluetooth. So every time now, I have to go hit the little B icon in the corner and tell it to route the iPod audio over the dock. This extra step is annoying. Does anyone have any sense if Apple is going to fix/change this so it remembers the customer's preferred audio routing setting?

I can't seem to figure out how to make a previous basic version Windows Media Player my default player on XP. Other aggressive players like QuickTime keep taking over my computer. I seem to remember that I figured out where to go to do this once before, but I can't remember where I went. Control Panel and "programs/accessories" don't seem to offer any options for this.

i have Acesonic KM-111 and windows VISTA on my laptop, i tried ways to record voice back to LAPTOP but i am unable to do it. can anyone please tell STEPS how to do this?

i am able to see the USB speakers & USB microphones but not able to hear the voice from laptop and record back or may be i am not aware of how to this ?

please tell me if you know how to do KM-111 & laptop with windows vista setup.

Thanks in advance.. hope to hear from someone.

-Tapan

hiya just wanted to know what the best 500gb (or more) external drive was for under £100 and i have some questions

might use for storage or for games =)

is a fan necessary? because it increases life span or something,,,but none of the websites state whether or not it has a fan or not

is is better to have more cache or less cache?

and i need sumthing fast must run on windows , (mac not compulsory but isnt hurt=)

I know that one of these three has Blue Ray capabilities, and that's a plus, but I've never played any of them - what do you think?

It does not matter which box is upstairs. I just can't receive some channels upstairs. I get the "one Moment please" window.

crosses in boxes and cannot see the pictures. What should I be doing? Help, anyone?

would you wave to him? Would he annoy you if he got in your row boat?

You are allowed to take three items with you. What would they be and why?

trying to start something, I really want to know if anything can be done to stop it.

I'm constantly running into questions, my own and others', where I'll see two, three, or more answers that are nothing but blatant copy-and-paste jobs. They don't give any actual input, often don't credit their plagiarized sources, and nine times out of ten, the information they decided to clutter the question with has very little or nothing to do with the actual question or working towards an answer for the inquiring party.

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THIS?

I know there is the abuse reporting system, but how well is it really working? Half of the questions I read have this problem and I'm getting sick of it. It's bad enough that many questions would appear to have been written by a 7 year-old, but these answers are further frustration. How can pasting a page from wikipedia answer an opinion-seeking question? I come here to kill time and feel useful when I can help somebody with something.

So help me if someone threadcraps here, I don't know what I'll do...

I would love to see one of NASA's rockets launched in person. To me that would be awesome.

i was hooking a tack up and after i conected the wires and tried to turn the car on, it would turn on then idel real rough then shut right off!

I read somewhere that people of African descent tend to have "watery" earwax, Asians have "dry" earwax, and Caucasians earwax is more waxy (like sticky). I remember when i was younger, my mother would always wet the q-tip before she stuck it in my ear, and I'm assuming this is because she thought MY earwax would be of the "dry" variety, like the statistics say her own would be... though mine tends to be more liquidy.

I clean my ears everyday (because otherwise they feel all wet inside) which might be BECAUSE i clean them out everyday (cochlea working overtime perhaps to accommodate all the wax i clean out everyday.

How often do you clean your ears out? What kind of wax do you have (do you fit your statistic)?