This is the laptop I am purchasing, is there anything i should consider changing/upgrading?

PROCESSORIntel® Core™ 2 Duo T5850 (2.16GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)edit
OPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows Vista® Home Basic Edition SP1 - Englishedit
SYSTEM COLOUREspresso Brownedit
LCD AND CAMERAGlossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280×800)edit
INTEGRATED WEBCAMIntegrated 2.0M Pixel Webcamedit
MEMORY2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHzedit
HARD DRIVE250GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)edit
OPTICAL DRIVE8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capabilityedit
WIRELESS CARDIntel Next -Gen Wireless -N Mini -cardedit
BATTERY OPTIONS6 Cell Batteryedit
SOUND OPTIONSHigh Definition Audio 2.0edit
Essentials
PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWAREMicrosoft Works 9. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORDedit
HARDWARE SERVICES1 Year Return to Depot Service and Technical Supportedit
SECURITY SOFTWARENo Security Software Pre-Installededit

ONLINE DATA STORAGEDell Online Backup 2GB for 1 yearedit
Accessories
CARRY IT!Belkin Notebook Sleeve - Fits Notebooks of Screen Sizes Up to 15.4-inch - Chocolate/Blueedit
SAVE IT!Patriot Signature Mini 4GB USB Flash Driveedit
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
GRAPHICS CARDIntel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
EXTERNAL MODEMIntegrated Modem
LabelWindows Vista™ Basic
NetworkIntegrated 10/100 Network Card
Adobe SoftwareAdobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
Processor BrandingIntel Pentium® Dual-Core Processor

Total : 3.32
Additional Question: Will this laptop be capable of downgrading to windows xp, home edition?

I have a kingston data traveler 2gb, when i try to save files on it, it says the disk is write protected, how do i remove this write protection?

Hi all, i have a new comp. (comp1)
amd4200+ dual core 2.2 ghz,
4gb ddr2 ram
vista home pre,64bit ver.
cat5 crossover cabs. to
dell dimention 1100 2.3 ghz celeron (comp 2)
2gb ddr sdram
xp home
I have zone alarm on xp if i make it lowest settings for access will it be at risk?
vista has windows firewall.
ip is same 1 & 2, workgroup is same, submask is same.
or would i need a program to download for this to work?
sorry 1st time i am hooking up 2 comps.
I did ping comp2 to comp1 and it sent packets, but comp1 to comp2 got timeouts, so i am thinking must lower firewall on comp 1 is that right?
any help would be appreciated
ok now both are working just dont know how to get or look at files on comp 2?
and thanks for the info

My computer has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5300 (1.73 GHz, 533MHz) and a 2GB DDR2 System Memory and a 160GB 5400RPM hard drive. will CA internet security suite 2007 work on my computer?

i have Kaspersky internet security 8.0.0.454 and it comes with a net work monitor. i said last week that it used 1.2GB!!!! of data. i have stopped updated to manual so what could it be, I need to stop these downloads because i have limited internet

Hello,

I'm in the process of getting a new computer. I currently have a PC laptop. I've been researching and comparing iMacs and XP Media Centers, but I can't decide. I'm looking at these two systems:

Apple iMac, 20 inch, 2GHz Intel Core Cuo
SuperDrive 8x (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)
ATI Radeon X1600/256MB VRAM
250 GB Serial ATA Drive
1GB SDRAM

or,

HP Pavillion Media Center TV PC
Intel Core 2 Duo (2.4 GHz)
250 GB Raid data security
15-in-1 memory card reader
256MB Nvidia GeForce
2GB SDRAM

Now I'm aware that the HP will give me more for my money, but I hear that Apples are very powerful systems. I was wondering what you guys thought, please don't be bias–limit the answers to their systems and components.

Thanks.
To answer questions:
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I'll mainly use it for movies, graphics, Adobe programs…
I have a strong background with Windows, I've never operated a Mac. I don't think that'll be a problem though.
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Also, for Mac users: Do you find it difficult to find common programs that are compatible with your system?

hi well everyone is telling me that raid 0 is not a good choise because if one drive fails my information is going to be lost so what if i buy this one :

High Performance with Data Security (RAID-1) with 2 Identical Hard Drives

and the question is ,is it really secure ? what if one drive fails would i lose my information or not ? well i'm goig to buy a pc from cyberpower.com and this could be my hard drive configuration :

High Performance with Data Security (RAID-1) with 2 Identical Hard Drives 320GB (320GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD

and i also was planing on buying an extra data hard drive 320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive so what do you think thanks for your help. well i wanted a configuration to make the computer very fast in load times and i'm going to put 2gb of ram (4×512MB) also a

NEW!!! NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB 16X PCI Express and a

(Socket AM2) AMD Athlon™64 X2 6000+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

I have read reviews that say computers with less than 2GB of RAM run significantly slower with Zone Alarm Security Suite 7.

There are multiple computers on a network, however they're all directly connected to the router. Basically there the Internet->Modem->Router->Direct connections to multiple computers. I can see the multiple computers via the DHCP table on the router (192.168.1.1), and I know for sure if one computer is running some server software (Apache for example), then the other computers can access it just fine by typing in the internal IP address (192.168.1.x), and I'm pretty sure port forwarding works fine. Most computers run Windows XP, however the computer that has the ton of data and the computer that will get the ton of data both run XP. And I don't want to set up a home network, I just need a direct connection. I'm thinking there's possibly some server software where when someone connects to it, they can get the data. Either way, what should I do to transfer the (at least, probably much more) 2gb of data? I can't burn cd/dvd's. The network is small and secure, so security is not an issue.