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and note, there is a THIRD drive option, the PLDS DU-8A2S

 

That's the one I've got. There seemed to be some initial burning issues but, with hindsight, they may have been caused by the Intel matrix storage software. It's been quite well behaved for the past few months.

There a thread about the optical drive problems somewhere.

John

 

I know that slimdrive CD/DVD burner can't finish a session without a hacking method. Most burning software, like imgburn (freeware) does it. However, Windows burning tool does not, which end up with a burn process fail message (from my experience, I tried 2 times... so it might be my disks).

 

I learned on a different thread that there is a third model of optical drive.
Hitachi GSA-U20N

 

just whizzed through this vista tutorial and it really helped me understand how it works--
http://www.learnthat.com/Software/learn/1159/Free_Microsoft_Windows_Vista_Tutorial/

after toying around with vista for 2 days now i don't see why everyone thinks it's so bad? maybe they just are afraid of change? i know there are def weird things about it but all in all it seems to be focused on ease of access and efficiency which who doesn't like? i mean it's certainly fancier and all but not overly creative looking or "unprofessional" for a business by any means.

i really did the aero interface w/ the 3d tab switching- much better than XP's ALT+TAB window switching!

one thing I'm trying to figure out is all the security features, a lot of it seems redundant if you already run an anti-virus, almost like this windows defender and firewall combo has 70% of what you'd get in an anti-virus, anyone else notice that?

ok anyway, this is the latitude thread so i will stop now, just wanted to let you guys know it's not as scary as it looks and it may be worth trying out vista. again my only gripe is the annoyance of having to manually install drivers 1 by 1, such a pain! the vista install was a breeze, but loading the drivers is cumberstone.

One other positive note on this---- when changing the DPI settings for your display, it doesn't make everything BLURRY when you go up or down from the normal size! In XP it did.

 

That is because you use an Internet Seciruty + Antivirus combo software.
If you use free anti-virus like AVG Anti-Virus or many many other, these are just anti-virus. So help out, Microsoft provided a real complete firewall with inbound and outbound control (Control Panel> Administrative Tools>Windows Firewall with Advanced Security), and a baisc Anti-spyware software.

Windows 7 will apparently come with a free and resource light Anti-virus software. There is no info on if Vista will also get it.

 

no i just use an Anti-Virus--- -Kaspersky 2009 I'm using now, I used to do Norton Internet Security and it was nightmarishly slow, although they claim the 2009 product is fast.

 

Soooo... I don't get what you are complaining about.

 

yeah, im with GB, what exactly are you concerned about?

 

Im having the same problem too. Thanks for the link. Shipping is a killer for me...($3.5 for 60 cents worth of stuff) has anyone bought anywhere else with lower shipping charge? Otherwise Ill have to buy quite a few to justify the shipping charges...