Lenovo R500 Review

On January 29th 2009 I bought a new laptop.  My old laptop (Dell E1405) was showing it’s age (3 years old).  The battery was broken and only lasting 5 minutes but the processing power still performed well for my daily tasks. It had an Intel Core Duo  T2300 (1.6ghz)  processor and 2.5gb of DDR2.  I biggest complaints on the E1405 was the screen and the battery.  The 14.1″ screen displayed colors horribly.

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Episode #2

Pointless Rants – Episode #2

In this episode we had a guest, Eric Shull who is nearing completion of his math degree.  Eric also has strong interests in programming and technology as well, which is why I picked him to post and guest on the blog.

Speakers: Tom, Trevor, Steve, Eric

The topics for this episode were…

• Trevor and Tom’s laptops came!  Dell Stuido 1537 and Lenovo R500
• IBM Sequoia ( Physorg )
• Hotmail POP3 availability ( LifeHacker )
• nVidia CUDA ( nVidia.com )
• Malware Bytes ( http://malwarebytes.org )
• Don’t attempt to replace your ipod screen
• Facebook 25 random things

 

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Episode #1

We actually made it to our second podcast! Yay!

Here’s what was on the agenda…

• News
  1. Upcoming Unboxing and reviews
  2. Apple Lawsuit over iPhone 3G not being fast enough ( http://bindapple.com )
  3. Michael Phelps picture with a bong ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com )
  4. Dell’s RIM phone? ( http://news.cnet.com )
  5. stocks went up
• Topics
  1. OpenArena/OpenRT ( http://openarena.ws http://openrt.de )
  2. ubiquity commands ( http://labs.mozilla.com )
  3. Google really declining ( http://www.daspecster.com )
• Rants
  1. Vista printer bug KB943729 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943729 )
  2. IE7 will not float justified text ( http://www.daspecster.com )

 

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