Best Bargain Laptop, Show Off Your HDTV, 40 Drive NAS? MetaX!
Saturday, December 6th, 2008 – running time 32:27
Best Budget Laptops, Upscaled DVD vs Blu-ray, Planet Earth Looks Amazing, What To Do with 40 Laptop Drives, Why Macbooks Can't Use Microphones, LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com
Is it us, or is Black Friday kinda over? Nobody should get trampled and die under a rush of holiday shoppers looking for cheap gifts.
What's the best laptop for $800, Blake? We've got some great options -it's amazing how much notebook you get for $800 these days- at least as long as you don't want top play serious 3D PC games!
For $600 to $1000 it's tough to beat Dell's Studio 15.
Will there be a visible difference between an upscaled DVD of the (amazing) Planet Earth videos and the Blu-ray version?
James, as far as we're concerned, Planet Earth is the most amazing hi def disk we've ever seen... it's a great reason to go ahead and get a Blu-ray player.
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This week's Freebie Download Pick is MetaX. If you run OS X, this is ultimate tool for tagging your collection of movie files MP4 and MOV files piles of info, right down to your pick of box covers or movie posters. Thanks to everyone that emailed in about this one!
What can you do with 40 hard drives you've got laying around, Bradd? We've got a laundry list of ideas, but we think you'll flip over RAIDZilla, even tho it 'only' uses 16 drives!
Thinking more like using 4 hard drives? Check out FreeNAS if you want to recycle an old PC, or our fave RAID 5-ish machine, the Drobo, which makes it easy to mix and match drives of different sizes.
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Hollywoodbound
Started discussion: December 6, 2008 @ 1:30pm GMT
Episode 62 - Best Bargain Laptop, Show Off Your HDTV, 40 Drive NAS? [Discussion]
Hey guys... you know what this thread is for :-)
P.S. I am drinking a nice 20 ounce 7-11 coffee as I type this.
juancho
7 months ago
what???
Wow this show format is so far away from TSS... I mean, jeez if you're going to advertise something like coffee please just say it' you don't have to include the sponsors in the questions from the viewers, I mean I swear that this show sounded like the movie "The Truman Show"Hollywoodbound
7 months ago
Sorry for the Multi Replies!
Sorry for hoggin up the board this time. I just watched this episode in parts cuz I was busy. I too, take coffee seriously. I wanted to post this link for a recent documentary about Coffee and the scandal of its farmers. VERY INTERESTING! http://blackgoldmovie.com/Here's a pic of me drinking coffee at EMPIRE COFFEE & TEAS
P.S. Being an east coaster I was raised on Dunkin Donuts! I lived in LA for a bit and couldnt find one! It was probably the chief reason I moved back here.
P.P.S. Not to bounced around too much but they should just make a decent keyboard and mouse for the consoles. XBox live, especially, has such a huge community that these developers (mainly blizzard) should start to put games like Starcraft on them. With some simple hardware accesories and some coopoertaion from these big companies we can make console gaming BETTER.
P.P.P.S Have my calender set for monday for the live taping!!!! Cant wait! OK I am done :-)
Hollywoodbound
7 months ago
ahhh!!! our threads had a baby! Well if there was any thread id want to bear my thread's child it would be your thread:-)
Keep up the AMAZING work! Thanks for helping me smile on an off day.
veronicazilla
7 months ago
In reply to juancho:
Wow this show format is so far away from TSS... I mean, jeez if you're going to advertise something like coffee please just say it' you don't have to include the sponsors in the questions from the viewers, I mean I swear that this show sounded like the movie "The Truman Show"
I'm not sure what you're talking about. We're not advertising coffee! We just like coffee, and someone asked what kinds we recommended.
And what "sponsors in questions" are you talking about?
Fee
7 months ago
Cool Episode!
I think i might have to check out Planet Earth on bluray, i saw it on Discovery HD but i say it will alot better on bluray,
forget coffee (I dont care much for it) But i did buy a case of Brain Toniq few weeks ago after Veronica and Leo Laporte was talking about how good it was, Its quite good!
I think i might have to check out Planet Earth on bluray, i saw it on Discovery HD but i say it will alot better on bluray,
forget coffee (I dont care much for it) But i did buy a case of Brain Toniq few weeks ago after Veronica and Leo Laporte was talking about how good it was, Its quite good!
therage800
7 months ago
In reply to juancho:
Wow this show format is so far away from TSS... I mean, jeez if you're going to advertise something like coffee please just say it' you don't have to include the sponsors in the questions from the viewers, I mean I swear that this show sounded like the movie "The Truman Show"
WTF are you talking about? No coffee company is a sponsor. Or do you just have a problem with them having an opinion about brands? Furthermore, what does TSS have to do with anything? Of course the format is different; it's a different show!
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Dell Studio 15 Laptop
Hey guys just want to let you know that I literally JUST purchased a Dell Studio 15 Laptop about a month ago. I went with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD3450 Graphics which was SOOOOO worth the cash. I constantly play 1080p video on my laptop or hook it up via HDMI to an HDTV for some gatherings to watch movies and TEKZILLA. I actually am able to play Left 4 Dead on pretty much almost max graphics settings on this card with no problems or lag.I didnt really shop around too much before I bought this one because I used my grandfathers Dell credit line BUT I can say that Patrick's recommendation is SOLID.
So to the dude who wanted a laptop for 800. Honestly, you are SOOOOO much better off saving just 200 more (do some manual labor for a day and a half) just so you dont have to deal with integrated graphics. If this is a potential desktop replacement it will be WELL worth it :-)
-Darrin