Computer help?

just about right--the data side is the most important part, hence that piece of plastic underneath it. The label is, then, the most important part to protect--it is the most easily damaged part of the cd, and if you scratch that label, you've scratched the data. My best of chuck mangione got ruined because of that, as well as my broadway soundtrack of the lion king.In other words--protect that label side with your life--the other side with half your life

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I don't know if the whole "pentium" thing has been cleared up.Let's use a shoe analogy. We have company "Birkenstock". B (for short) makes shoe "cork" and shoe "leather". Now let's move onto processors.We have company "Intel". I (for short) makes processor "Pentium" and processor "Celeron".Basically, just brand names.As to what Ohnhai was talking about: "1gig of memory". He was telling you to get 1 gigabyte of RAM. 510 RAM, and 1024 RAM, are, respectively, 510 megabytes and 1024 megabytes. Keep in mind, one thousand MB (megabyte) is one GB (gigabyte). for future reference:8 bits = 1 byte
1000 bytes = one kilobyte
1000 kilobytes = one megabyte
1000 megabytes = one gigabyte
1000 gigabytes = one terabyte
(all ='s are approximate, due to how memory is actually stored. But close enough for practical purposes)
(don't worry about bits)As to the system--looks good, but don't remember the other one Iano posted. If you want to shave off of bit more money, do not, I repeat, do not go for the flat panel screen (they're like laptop screens). Then use the money spared by sticking with a traditional monitor to get the extra 500 MB of RAM you need.Another area:
switching from zip to another media. Pick up a thumb drive (aka memory stick, flash drive)(the thing that crash had a picture of). My dad's computer, which he got in '99, had USB ports. Your's should too. Then its just a matter of sticking the thumb drive into your USB port (get someone at the best buy to show you what they look like and how to connect to them with your thumb drive). Stick in your zip disk, and then transfer the data onto the thumb drive.Here's how I'd do it. Keep your old system for the moment. Get the new one. Get the thumb drive. Then, once you move the data from a couple of zips onto the thumb drive, move the data from the thumb drive onto the new computer.Even if your current computer does not have a thumb drive, do get one. They are literally the new floppy disk (and are approaching the amount of hard drive memory my dad's computer had--4 gigabytes).If you need something further explained, ask away.

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assuming microsoft has a brain, the SP2 should be on any new computer you buy (especially from a store, where you aren't installing the OS).I just recently got a new computer--couple of months ago, but I can't remember if I had to download SP2 from the net.(and since this thread is about computer help: I've got a dual-core processor. How do i turn the other one on, and how do I use it?)

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a picture's worth a thousand, they say:USB port

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if you don't ask the software to disengage (?) from the thumb drive, it's quite possible all the data can get erased. As to wear factor, my guess is since it's essentially a miniature hard drive, magnets are a very bad thing (at least, powerful ones).

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