Jim Cockfield

I'm the wrong person to ask. I built my own PCs for many years.  But, then I figured out that's it's cheaper to buy a refurb machine from someone like Dell if you're a good shopper and use coupon...

There's really no right or wrong answer, as both CPUs are in the same ballpark for performance with most multi-threaded apps. The Intel is going to have a big advantage for single threaded...

I might go with the AMD, mostly because I use Linux most of the time and it's pretty good about CPU task scheduling (where even single threaded task workloads are spread fairly evenly between...

That SSD is a bit small for real world use. I'd consider going with a 128GB model as a minimum.  Personally, I'd lean towards a Samsung 840 Pro if buying a new one right now, as they have a good...

Yea... I would not consider buying a larger 27" display with only 1920x1080 resolution, as most 24" monitors provide that much, and many provide even more (with 1920x1200  being fairly common...

I'm not.  My plan is only supposed to give me up to 15Mbps download and up to 3Mbps upload (and I'm seeing >24Mbps download and >5Mbps upload). The next plan up is 25Mbps, and the one after that is...

What kind of plan does she have.   Any bottleneck probably has nothing to do with the Cable Modem, especially if techs have already checked out her service. Chances are, most ISPs are providing...

I'd consider going with a Samsung 840 Pro versus the standard Samsung 840. The standard 840 uses cheaper TLC memory that's only rated for about 1/3 the program erase cycles compared to the 840 Pro...

Did you use Event Viewer yet (as mentioned in my last couple of posts? Look... if you're seeing 5 minute+ load times for multiple apps using a modern PC, something is very wrong. So, if you want to...

Did you look at Event Viewer? See my last post for more details: http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/51495709 As for chkdsk, did you use the /f parameter, as shown in the syntax in my first...

Again, you've got multiple unrelated programs with issues (Lightroom, iTunes, Corel Painshopt Pro, NIk...), even though some of the other programs like Photoshop CS6 are working fine. So, I think...

IOW, if you've installed adware/spyware programs as part of other programs you downloaded, then more aggressive measure may be needed to get rid of it. For example, you may need to try something...

Video ads when browsing which sites? Does it happen on all sites, or just some sites? Are they pop up type adverts that open in separate windows, are you referring to adverts that are part of the...

Debian 6 is very dated now (out for over 2 years).  So, many newer wireless chipsets don't have drivers included.  Debian 7 is better (but, it's using Linux 3.2 as it's default kernel, which is...

Often, just one area of a disk drive has problems. So, applications installed on one section may be fine, yet applications installed to problem areas can have issues. IOW, because you have apps...

Unless you've picked up some malware or have a conflict with drivers, you could have a hardware issue (retries to sector errors on your hard drive, etc.). Has it been the same way since  you bought...

I use Dolphin most of the time, since it's the default file manager used by most KDE 4.x desktops.  See some of it's features here: http://dolphin.kde.org/features.html But, I also use Krusader...

No.  Sorry, that was a typo. Wheezy ships with 4.8.4 by default, whereas some of the other new KDE based distros (Kubuntu 13.04, OpenSUSE 12.3, Mageia 3.0 and more) have a newer KDE 4.10.x release...

It looks like Kubuntu 13.04 is taking about the same amount of memory (I'm seeing 256MB in use after booting into a setup installed to a Virtual Drive in VirtualBox with nothing else running except...

Great.  I'm glad that solved it for you I see that from time to time with laptops (for whatever reason, they don't get a good enough memory snapshot saved to disk, or a good enough image stored in...