Every little helps…

[dragon]

Originally Posted by keithwalton

vista basic is fine with 512megs of ram, home premium (aeroglass + sidebar) on the otherhand pushes that upto a gig minimum, preferably two. With regards to plugging in cameras and such to linux computers, most cheaper cameras use a usb mass storage driver (like the usb pen drive) to download onto computers (and upload to camera as well) which is universally supported and quite nice.
Move away from cheap cameras however and your in trouble, my canon ixus 900 has its own special interface driver, last time i checked my camera was not supported in linux, at least not by canon.

Sony cameras i believe are similar in that they bespoke drivers

Problem solved with a simple USB card reader tho

[Alien]

Originally Posted by Stuart C

The only reason I haven't sold my PC is that it currently has nearly a terabyte of storage, which would be a little difficult to fit into a laptop, and the fact that I do need Windows for some stuff, and the macbook only has a 120G system drive, which looks a little small when you bung Mac OSX, Final Cut Studio (which in a full installation is 68 gig itself) and Windows.

If you're keen on making the switch to MacOS, why not run it on your PC? You could try a pirate copy just to make sure you can get it to work. Then if it's all ok, go buy OSX, & follow 1 of the online guides on how to get a legit copy to work with a non-Apple machine.

[keithwalton]

Originally Posted by dragon

Problem solved with a simple USB card reader tho

Not many card readers read SDHC (secure digital high capacity) cards though. My 14in1 external drive doesnt and the 5in1 built in reader in my laptop cant read the cards either!

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

They need to add more information to the poor saps who may be buying these machines for their kids for christmas and expect them to play games. The mismarketing of low end pcs really gets on my nerve. Now I know they are not saying they are gaming machine sbut they are not telling you anything about them or the use they are intended for. Also withit being on a website there isnt even another sap to ask

My sister did exactly the same thing a few years ago, she bought the kids a PC for Christmas, she also bought a load of games for them, when it came to playing the games the machine kept freezing, she phoned me up asking me what the problem was? I said did the machine come in a box? She said yes, I said put it in the box and take it back because it's no good, I said you've bought a machine that's no good for nothing only surfing and doing applications like spread sheets etc etc. She wasn't to pleased

[dragon]

Originally Posted by keithwalton

Not many card readers read SDHC (secure digital high capacity) cards though. My 14in1 external drive doesnt and the 5in1 built in reader in my laptop cant read the cards either!

They're becoming more common...


Saying that I know what people mean about people just buying things that are cheap.

My Nan got my Aunt to get her a laptop off ebay they ended up paying about £80 for a p2 366mhz (thereabouts)... 128mb ram and xp (she only uses it to look at pics from her camera)

Stupidest part was I had a similar spec Laptop sitting around gathering dust that she could have had for nothing. (actually i gave it to her with win2k on to practice with when she was waiting for the other laptop, which she had no clue about the spec of)

Last I heard she was giving/selling the laptop she bought to my cousin since she preferred the touchpad on the one I had spare

Sigh if only she'd asked... pertucally as soon after my Mum bought a new laptop (cus it was pink ) and i had a spare 2.6ghz celeron laying about. (someone else ended up with that though since My nan had just bought the other-one)

Gotta say one thing tho Google piccasa is great, My nans a complete technophobe and after a bit of guidance she can now use it to browse her pictures and do simple things like rotate.etc

Oh and shes already talking about a new laptop sometime next year, which considering 6months ago she wouldn't even dare touch a PC is quite something

Which reminds me does anyone know where I can get some quiz/puzzle games that will run on an old pc..
Don't need pretty graphics just to run on windows stuff like crosswords,.etc