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HP LightScribe Burners

robsta — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 10:17:00 +0000

Okay, So I finally ended up buying a HP lightscribe burner. The dvd640 to be exact. I got it from NetPlus for $89. I know at my work we were selling LG burners (which in fact are rebadged HP’s) for alot less ($55 or so) but they were OEM. I didn’t really read up too much on Lightscribe technology, but you need special disks for it to work correctly. The coating on top of the disks is burned by the dvdr laser to produce a grayscale image. This is really handy, because I always lose my permanent marker!!! However I’ve spent all of yesterday looking for lightscribe media from retail shops, but they seem hard to find. I’m pretty much after generic media, I dont care for quality or data life because nothing important of mine is backed-up to cd/dvd. Anybody know?

Dell 30″ Flat Panel

robsta — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:01:00 +0000

Dell is releasing a crisp 30 inch widescreen display next year. Hopefully braking in the Australian Market early:

Link: www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/brand/3007wfp?c=u

Christmas PC

robsta — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:46:57 +0000

Here is the PC Santa is buying me for christmas,

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 Pro: VIA K8T800, 800MHz FSB, 3xDDR400, ATA/133, RAID/133, SATA/150, 8X AGP, Firewire, GigaLAN, Sound, ATX
CPU	AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU + Fan – S754, 2.0GHz, 512kb, 800MHz
RAM	GeIL 1Gb 400MHz CL2.5 DDR Memory Kit (2 x 512Mb 400MHz DDR RAM)
Hard Drives	120Gb Maxtor SATA/150 7200rpm Hard Drive – 8Mb Cache, 3Y 120Gb Maxtor SATA/150 7200rpm Hard Drive – 8Mb Cache, 3Y
Video Card	HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600XT 128Mb AGP 8X Video Card + DVI/TV Out
Case	CoolerMaster CM Stacker Tower Case (NO PSU)
Power Supply	Zalman 400w Noiseless ATX Power Supply

Thanks to SecretNet.

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