Comments on: Dell Studio Hybrid: Little, colored, different… for Canada

By: A pimp named slickback

A pimp named slickback — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:23:43 +0000

yes but ubuntu does not like my graphics card, im lucky i can get halflife 2 to run at a decet frame rate, and i have a 1gig video card with a 512bit interphase i only put OS X leopard on here just because i wanted to try it. i plan on putting windows xp back on here soon. my game crysis runs funny on vista but on xp it seems a bit smoother with everyhthing turned on high.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:00:11 +0000

theres always linux and tweak your regeisty clean it out an defragent it it loads much fast and defrag your drive once in a whil

By: A pimp named slickback

A pimp named slickback — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:40:17 +0000

well im not stupid enough to buy a mac, i have OS x leopard running on my pc with no problem, and it boots up and dose not lag like vista does, my wifes laptop takes forever to boot up with vista.
i have never seen anything boot up in the time it takes me i swear its almost 30 seconds and its ready to go. before i got rid of vista it took about a min 30 to fully boot up.

intel core 2 duo 3.0ghz
4 gig of ram
500 gig sata 2 drive
xfx 9800gx2 video card
800watt psu

By: rickster

rickster — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:34:31 +0000

Why is it that mini PCs (and Macs for that matter) don’t have discrete graphics like the laptop motherboards they are often based upon?

The Studio lines are OK (even if they look like old skool portable drives) – as is the Mac Mini – but the deal breaker comes down to the graphics.

It’ll make a nice PC for a receptionist though, in matching corporate color, no doubt.

By: JJLO

JJLO — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:13:01 +0000

I am not a big Dell fan due my previous experience with Dell machines and support. I like this one. It certainly fits my needs. Might even give it a try once I get a chance to take it out for a test drive.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:25:54 +0000

The dell studio hybrid is a little out of date too – it isn’t quite the fastest chipset, etc. But it packs way more of a punch than the mini, and can get quite powerful for more $$. Gotta love the HDMI output, thats the kicker for me. Also has DVI, optial audio out, firewire… its the ultimate behind-the-tv computer.

I’m sure you could run OSX on it if you really wanted .

I’m eager to see what apple will do with the next mini – if they continue it – there have been rumors for a long time that they’ll drop it.

At any rate you can’t dispute that the mac mini is an absolutely horrible buy right now considering it has had the same specs for 390 days (and counting) and is still the same price. Ick!

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:40:21 +0000

sp1 improves vista quite a bit
@ a pimp named slick slickback
now if you wanna go OS bashing we caould also say OSX isn’t without it’s faults either compatibilty issues new vwersions son suport stuff older than 3 years

the fair play encryption in the last version of itunes an quick time will cause scrashes an lock your system up
and as usual is easy to crash a machine running it

bottom lin apple selling you an overpriced outdated POS that looks cool to sheep

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:39:01 +0000

The mac mini is a marginal player in the mac lineup … and is as sexy as a k-mart appliance.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:36:36 +0000

Come on Dell school starts on Thursday, where is that Dell netbook !! : !@:

By: EPS

EPS — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:06:31 +0000

The Mac Mini is wildly outdated, if Apple still wants to be in this market it needs to upgrade the hardware.

By: A pimp named slickback

A pimp named slickback — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:16:32 +0000

dells trying to copy the mini mac
the mini mac will always be faster with the same specs because VISTA blows