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Technical Difficulties Be Damned!!!

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 11:59 PM
  • Mood: Zeal

Last Movie Seen In Theaters: Project X
Last Movie Seen Outside of Theaters: The Pink Panther (1964)
Currently Reading: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Newest DVD: Charlie Wilson's War
Newest CDs: Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack and Alpocalypse by "Weird Al" Yankovic
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Guess what?  I got my memory upgrade yesterday, and I installed it this morning.  The good news is my iMac isn't shutting down every 90 seconds anymore.  Although I think this has more to do with me cleaning dust from the vents at the bottom.  I'm not sure if I installed it right, as there's still delays in loading.
Anyway, on Wednesday morning I had connection issues.  I just couldn't get online!  And the thing is, I wanted to get on YouTube for help in wrapping up a comic.  Well, I didn't feel like letting that stop me.  I packed up my laptop and some art supplies, and went to the library.  I used their WiFi to get online, and draw that comic page.  Sometimes, you need to engage in a little artistic badassery!


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:iconlaptopgeek:
this is how my last three towers got so poorly. I made sure Dexter and George don't get this way anymore, I try and vacumn the vents, to suck the dust out much as I can. This is why George, nearly coming to 3 which is nearly 60 in human years, is still running properly, it is a bit slower, starting up takes a bit longer, battery is starting to get weaker by sometimes, the charge goes to 95% and the lid gets overheated.
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*EmperorNortonII Apr 29, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
So you've determined that three computer years is the same as 20 human years?
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:iconlaptopgeek:
I usually think laptop age in 20 years per year such as one is 20, 3 is 60, but as George is not 3 yet, he is still 50. Desktops however, as they last longer, they age 10 per year, so Dexter is still a young child but will be like a 10 year old by July, then a teenager.
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~Poison-Stripes Apr 22, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Damn right!
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~BB-K Apr 22, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Ahh, dust, always the main culprit, mine is already a dying a motherboard & heatsink which causes some overheating problems. But I still can't solve the slow and long time startup of Windows 7, it's long overdue for another reformat anyways. :(

Lastly, you may have a RAM upgrade, all I want is a new graphic card and hopefully take advantage of the new FXAA (An anti-aliasing technology) technology. The one thing I do not know is, compare to a desktop graphic card which we see it's a big rectangular thing like a shape of your average laptop battery, but inside a laptop version is more of a small chip which is the size of your smartphone's graphic card such as Nvidia's Tegra 3. :o I hope I can still at least upgrade it without compromising the whole motherboard.
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:icongymfuzz:
Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!
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