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been wanting to have some custom cables made but have been eyeing the new be quiet straight power psus, haven’t seen many places that make be quiet custom cables. Any recommendations for me to go look at?
SSD on this little machine makes a world of difference, Id say the speed of this system rivals my sisters 2011 13" MBP with i7. However I am jealous of the battery life the new systems have.
I love my late 2008 Macbook. I havent felt the need to replace it after upgrading it with 8gb/intel ssd/optibay with 750gb hd(love having 2 hard drives in it, who uses optical stuff anyway). Ive had to replace the battery once. I love this thing, running vms and doing all my mobile computing...
Few things I use on my macbook
Trillian
Caffeine
OnyX
Google Chrome
iStat Menus
VMware Fusion
Dropbox
Appzapper
VLC
WineBottler and Wine
uTorrent
SynergyKM
I have photoshop and open office on one of my VM's
foobar2000 running through wine, I might switch to Fluke for my FLAC...
CPU
AMD k6-2 400, AMD Tbird 1.33, P4 3.2, e8400, i7 2600k
GPU
ATI Rage 128 Pro, Geforce 2 MX400, ATI 9800 pro, 4870x2 , 6950 x2 cfx, 7970 x2 cfx
and this stuff just for fun.
Monitors
15in compaq, sony g420 (used this and the compaq for a while), 2x samsung 17inch lcds, 2x samsung...
I too would say a standard pair of headphones with the clip on mic, the best setup I've used was my HD555's with zalman mic. When I switched to a "normal" headset from creative all my friends bitched about background noise in vent, where I didnt have that with the zalman mic. Also the HD555's...
I went from pro media 2.1s to bx5a's and im very happy with this decision, the pro media 2.1s are just so bass heavy even with the sub gain turned down to near minimum. With the bx5a's you get a more clear sound and I love listening to music with them, playing games and watching movies...
Wow even I dont expect my monitors to be perfect out of the box, the very first thing I did with my u3011 was to check for any stuck pixels. I had none, but its always a possibility. I dont see what the big deal is just send it back and get another.
Honestly if your main purpose is gaming on your xbox the asus VE278Q would be the best choice for the money. I had one and a xbox 360 connected to it, it worked fine and had no problems with it. It would honestly be a waste of money to get a U2711 for xbox 360 primary use. You would be more...