Debating on what tv to get for under $3500...

I have narrowed down my decision on two possible tv's....on one hand I can get the Samsung PN63C8000 which is the 63 in plasma or the other get the huge DLP 82 Mitsubishi. I know I would get better picture quality with the plasma...but just wanted some feedback....

I second the opinion that Sony has fallen off, but I also second the opinion that flat screen TVs are of a wide variation of qualities. But lets use logic to decide this for sure. I remember having several Tube style TVs and still have many that are still working after 18+ years without an issue. Think about it, before flat screen and DLP projection all there was is tube, since the 50s all man had to refine was the same tech, therefore it became easy to master.
now with all this new technology and the constant advancement of technology we live in a very ADHD style of electronics market where everything keeps changing. knowing that, can one honestly think that these companies are taking their time to master each new technology that they think of? I'd argue that they are not. the closest tech mastery we have in TVs right now is either DLP (because Mitsubishi has continued to champion for it), and plasma (because Panasonic has taken plasma as their stand as their focus). but honestly, any flat panel cannot be proved to be as consistantly reliable as a tube TV.
therefore whatever you buy, be aware and be reasonable with your expectations. I usually tell my customers, that if they are lucky they should expect to receive 8-10 years of reasonable use out of their new TV, and thats if no problems ever arise. I will submit, that while I have no scientific proof, id estimate that 1 of every 20 flat panels would not make it past 3 years without a severe problem arising.
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WCS annual support: what do I get for extra AP license packs?

I am not trying to be snide here, but I am having a difficult time understanding what new value I get for an extra SAU annual support package that my Cisco Partner says I now need, since I added additional AP licenses to the WCS software. This add-on SAU will more than double my annual support costs for the WCS software. I've called and emailed my partner several times on this, and basically it came down to "that's how Cisco does it now." I've also done on-line chat and a couple hours of phone time with Cisco's pre-sales support, and technical support, but neither of them was able to give me any answer, and after passing me back and forth between their two divisions, they passed the buck back to my Cisco partner.
But, my question remains: What additional value do I get for this doubled price "Software Application support with Updates"? I can already download WCS software and WLC firmware. The only thing that has changed is my software's AP limit.
We've had WCS 5.0, with the original Base 50 AP license. The WCS server runs two WLC 4402 units, one set for 25 APs, and one for 50. We actually have 46 APs deployed. We've paid annual support since we first purchased this system, SAU software and upgrade support for the WCS software, and SmartNet hardware support for the WLCs. We have not had support for our actual AP hardware, as our partner recommended just buying spares instead, as a cheaper option. But, AP firmware updates come automagically with the WLC firmware updates.
We will soon be going beyond 50 APs, so we installed an 100 AP add-on license for the WCS. This changed the "About" box for the WCS software so it now says it is licensed for 150 permanent APs, instead of the original 50. (This add-on license cost more than $4,000, so I don't feel that I'm trying to get a bigger WCS system without paying for it.)
Recently I upgraded my WCS software to v5.2 and then to v6, and am currently at 6.0.196.0. I also upgraded my WLC firmware, which updated my APs. Everything seems to be working well, and these updates were all included in my basic SAU for WCS, which runs about $720 per year.
However, March is when our SmartNet renewals come due, and my partner says we now need to buy a second version of WCS SAU, supposedly a requirement with our additional 100 AP license. This add-on support ( part "CON-SAU-WLB100EX" ) goes for $1,080 per year, so my WCS annual support would now be $1,800 instead of $720.
As I said, I really don't understand what I'm getting for this additional money. We are a small enough college that I can't spend $1000 without justifying the expense. Already, with my existing WLC SmartNet payment I get firmware updates for my WLC and AP hardware, and with my existing WCS SAU payment I get software updates on the server. None of this seems to have changed with the additional AP license count.
(Note that although the WCS update package allows 100 more APs, my present WLC hardware really only allows an additional 25 APs.)
If nothing else, for $1,000 a year, Cisco should be able to give me a pithy explanation of what I am buying :-)
In summary:
What does CON-SAU-WLB100EX actually support? Why do I need it?
What happens if I keep paying my CON-SAU-WCS support and my WLC support, but do not add this new charge? Is my WCS software still upgradeable?
Thanks for any insights you can provide,
Steve Bohrer

I'm not selling support contracts, I just work in TAC. But here's my 2 cents :
If you have your license for your extra APs (which you said you already bought), your WCS will run just fine.
With regards to software download, either you have download access or you don't. The system can't prevent you to download WCS because it saw you had purchased more AP license than your support contract mentions. So download should still work in the future.
From a TAC perspective, if there is a support contract, we give support. We don't care at all how many APs people have.
So all considered, I have no idea what this extra support contract will bring you :-)
But since the Sales people in your region don't seem to gifted in explaining what they are selling, I would just go without that special contract unless they justify what it exactly adds and what you will lose if you don't take it. Probably if you don't say a word, they won't notice anything and will still support you nonetheless :-)

What do I get for BTV Essential

Hi, have not been here for a while.
Just got my latest bill and it has gone up by £3.00 a month, not much but I am retired and on a fixed income so any increase is a lot. I got all my phone (unlimited calls), broadband (Option 1), and Vision (Gold-Unlimited) contracts running together last March, so in a couple of months they will be up for renewal.
I watch about three or four films a month, and over the past six months or more BT seem to be recycling the films every couple of months. so losing that is not much of a problem.
Obviously I want to reduce my costs, I am thinking of reducing Vision from Unlimited to Essential, but the BT Package is not really clear on what I will get (for free). Or should I dump Vision completely. Can anybody help.

brightspark wrote:
Hi, have not been here for a while.
Just got my latest bill and it has gone up by £3.00 a month, not much but I am retired and on a fixed income so any increase is a lot. I got all my phone (unlimited calls), broadband (Option 1), and Vision (Gold-Unlimited) contracts running together last March, so in a couple of months they will be up for renewal.
I watch about three or four films a month, and over the past six months or more BT seem to be recycling the films every couple of months. so losing that is not much of a problem.
Obviously I want to reduce my costs, I am thinking of reducing Vision from Unlimited to Essential, but the BT Package is not really clear on what I will get (for free). Or should I dump Vision completely. Can anybody help.
If you haven't taken Line rental saver yet, then this could save you money to counteract the other increase.
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What laptop to get for CS5 or CS6...

Increasingly there appear questions about which laptop to get for CS5/6.
First, the question is why a laptop and why not a desktop?
Laptops are always at least 2 to 3 times slower than a desktop, they are significantly more expensive than a desktop with the same or better performance and they need a wall outlet to use. Batteries don't last long enough for editing and you need a wall outlet for external components (disks, monitor, BD-R etc.) that are required. All that makes a laptop more like an expensive, underpowered luggable machine.
For video editing machines it is always best to use a machine for video editing only and use a second system for other applications and this is especially true for much weaker laptops than desktops.
So, let me repeat the question: What are the considerations to use a laptop over a desktop? You have to be very clear about it to sell the idea to the one responsible for the budget. You also have to be clear about the performance penalty, if you decide to go forward with a laptop.
OK, we got this out of the way. You have good arguments to get a laptop and you have succesfully sold the idea to the one responsible for the available budget.
So what are your choices and what do you need to look for in terms of specs?
First, let me remind you of the article Adobe Forums: What PC to build? An update... because it contains a number of relevant issues that influence your choice. Basically there are three approaches possible:
Get a laptop from a brand company like Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Toshiba and the like.
Get a customizable laptop from specialist companies like Sager or Clevo.
Get a custom builder like ADK Video Editing build you a system tuned to your needs.
All these solutions have a number of common components, under the assumption you want to edit HD material:
CPU: at least a quad core i7 processor, preferably with hyper-threading. The faster the better.
GPU: at least a nVidia GTX 660M or better with 1+ GB DDR5 memory.
Disks: at least 2 internal 7200 RPM disks.
Connections: minimum is eSATA plus USB3 ports.
Monitor: at least 1920 x 1080 resolution and 15.4" screen size or bigger.
Memory: bare minimum is 8 GB but workable is only 16 or 32 GB.
Looking at brand names one may come up with a short-list like:
Now, in their standard configurations they are all lacking on some aspects. Insufficient memory, only single disk, or lacking connections. If these can not be configured to meet the above practical minimum requirements, where at least 2 disks is the most crucial, there is only companies like Sager and Clevo to look at. Something like this is about bare minimum, because of the underspecced video card:
Despite the price this will still be around 3 times slower than an equally priced desktop. If that performance penalty is too big, then one can consider a system like this:
Again, despite the price, this system will still be more than 2 times slower than a far less expensive desktop, but hey, you knew that when you decided on a laptop and got approval for the budget, right?
The last option is to go to a custom builder to get a laptop that is exactly tuned to your needs and budget. It will not be less expensive than the Sager route, but it will get you the best balance between performance and price for your needs. Additionally, you get great service if ever needed.
To sum this up, a laptop is a compromise. A compromise in performance and price. It is not for the faint of heart, faint of wallet. It is not a laptop, it is a luggable system on a wall outlet. An alternative is coasters under a desktop system and you can use other wall outlets as well, but with a better price and far better performance.
I hope this will help people to decide if they really need a laptop and if affirmative, to get the right system for their needs.

As usual, Harm has provided very knowledgeable and helpful advice in this matter. I would like to add that if you are inclined, and feel it's worth a gamble.....New Egg has been selling refurbished Asus i7 laptops that have almost all the necessary components for a lower price than normal. You may have to add more memory yourself and add a quality SSD for OS and programs and pagefile, ( cloned from the supplied drive). Then, use the supplied drive for media and all else in the second bay....or, as an emergency backup of your original configuration. I am not sure,but I think if you put a second Marvell controlled SSD in the second bay instead,( Corsair Pro or Plextor Pro...no Sandforce), you may get the benefit of SATA III speeds from BOTH drives for best laptop performance.....I am not sure if earlier criticisms of SSD degradation still apply with these newer Marvell controlled SSDs.
      I DO know that my old Asus G73JW tested MUCH FASTER on Harm's PPBM5 benchmark when I added extra memory,( from 8 to 14GB ), AND used a Corsair Force 120GB SATA II SSD in each of the two internal drive bays. On that site you can see similar laptops to mine performing way slower using less memory and conventional spinning HDDs. At the time, I was careful to choose SSDs that had a high read AND write speed. I have had no issues with my SSDs. I also have used the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid HDD as project drive.....and scored lower on the PPBM test,( not submitted).
      Harm is right.....any laptop will not approach the performance of a good desktop setup....not to mention PPro CS 6 appears to be even more powerful and demanding than the 5.03 I'm using. People are reporting needing at least 32GB memory and more than 2GB video card memory to get better performance.
   Someone posted about Exotic PC selling upgraded laptops, ( some Asus) with up to 32GB memory and muliple HDD configurations....you may be able to upgrade a laptop similarly yourself for less money. Watch the sales at Tiger Direct and New Egg....you may find some thing workable.

New to imac, used a pc before and am used to windows Vista. what can i get for my imac which will allow me to continue using windows? doesn't have to be vista in fact would prefer it if its the newest windows application

what window programme can i get for my new imac. would like the latest windows with outlook and all the other stuff. also bought it from a friend and need to remove his name from it, but have followed all the instructions and its still there, can anyone advise please?

If you have an intel Mac, you can use BootCamp, which is part of your OS and allows you to run Windows.

So what are we getting for hanging in there?

What are you giving your customers for hanging in there waiting for their phones? It is now the 31st and no word on when my phone will be available. It is now the 31st (when you promised the phones by). I have a feeling the day will come and go with no contact from you saying that my phone is in. I know A LOT of people have jumped shipped and ordered their phones elsewhere. So for the people that are hanging in there, waiting - what are you giving us? And don't say the headphones, because everyone who preordered are getting them.

I didn't stick in there but what I did get was my $50 pre-order gift card cashed out, my $197 trade in gift card cashed out and a complimentary $30 gift card mailed to me.
I wish I was told the truth from the beginning, but they did make up for their mistake in the end.
Will I ever purchase a phone from Best Buy again, probably not, but I will not leave with the feeling of hatred I had 10 days ago.

Best soundcard to get for under 100 dolla

can someone tell me what is the best soundcard to get for no more than 00 dollars?. Thank you very much.

bboyflames wrote:
can someone tell me what is the best soundcard to get for no more than 00 dollars?. Thank you very much.
Depends on what are you goin' to do w/ that card.
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What should i get for my 3g nano?

two questions
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2. does invisible shield (from shieldzone) really work?

1. It really depends on your personal preference. You can look at pages of reccomendations for a certain product that are positive and get it yourself and feel that it is inadequate. If possible purchase one of the ones you have listed and test them out yourself or go somewhere that allows you to test them in the store. Check the return policy so if you aren't satisfied you can return/exchange with ease.
2. Does it work in what sense? If you mean if it protects from scratches under normal use then yes, I personally feel that it does since I all of my iPod products remain in like new condition despite heavy use.

What Mac to get for Final Cut Studio?

I've been doing most of my video editing for the last year or so in Sony Vegas on a PC. I'm looking to get into it a bit more seriously and want to make the switch to Final Cut Studio.
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This isn't the thread in post in.
Try here
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What do i get for my download limit.

i am from australia now i am buying an iphone - the plan comes with 100mb of download per month - now for the stupid question - using an iphone what will 100 mb get me?
note i am not going to download apps or music from the phone directly - i have itunes for that.
thanks in advance

If you use WiFi whenever you can, use fetch rather than push for your mail and avoid YouTube (except on WiFi), you might be OK. There is a way to track the amount of data sent and received over the cellular data network in the Settings -> General -> About section of the phone. You can reset that when you please. See the manual page 104.
Take a look at this forum for some comments from your fellow Australians about their cellular data usage.
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What charger to get for iPhone?

Hi!
Recently I bought iPhone from USA, it came with american wall charger, it seems to me it's not original. I live in Europe and want to get a replacement, but I can't find original one for reasonable price. My question - can I use non-original charger for iPhone or charger for another phone, for instance htc tc-e250? Is it safe, won't it harm my phone? What model to choose? What's cheapest good charger?
I know I'm far not first to ask this question, but I could not find good answer. Please, Geniuses, answer me!)

Intenditore wrote:
I can't find it for less than 30-40$, no too good price. I bought 3GS for about 110$ )
Well, it's your phone and your risk. Again, $30-40 is less than paying another $110.

What do I get for points?

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Level 2
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Level 3
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Level 4
1,000-3,999
Level 5
4,000-7,999
Level 6
8,000-19,999
Level 7
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Level 8
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Level 9
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Level 10
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I am a level two, so I know what I get upon reaching 150, but I was wondering what I got for the other level...the old discussions forums said what you got, but not these forums

FishComputer wrote:
I am a level two, so I know what I get upon reaching 150, but I was wondering what I got for the other level...the old discussions forums said what you got, but not these forums
At each higher level, you acquire various privileges. For example, you can post articles in the Tips forum. I have no idea what each step provides but a representative of the Forums will send you an e-mail decribing your privileges when you attain a higher level.
From the perspective of the general readers, when you see someone with a higher level posting information you can be increasingly confident in the reliability of their post. That’s not to say a newbie wouldn’t also have an equally fine post of course, but these ‘experts’ are much appreciated over time as they become the recognized authorities for the particular forums they follow closely. An amazing service to all.

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Please use pages #8 to #10 of the following manual:
https://www.easyworship.com/downloads/EasyWorshipManual.pdf
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Somewhat confused about what RAM to get for PB G4 (the DDR2 model)

Hello. This is a long post since I'll try and explain in great detail what the problem is. I've purchased a refurbished 15.2" Power Book G4 off ebay the other day, it is the last 15 inch powerbook G4 apple released in October '05 since it has DDR2 RAM.
I haven't got the laptop yet, but figured I'd think ahead and get some more RAM for it to max it out. However I'm in a confused state of mind now as to what RAM will actually work in the laptop. On the Apple specification page for the laptop (which also lists the 1.67ghz 17 inch and the 1.5ghz 12 inch), it states for the 15 inch that it works with:
"512MB (single SO-DIMM) of PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRAM running at 333MHz; two SO-DIMM slots; support for up to 2GB"
Is that correct though? PC2-4200 RAM is 533MHz, not 333MHz. Or at least all the PC2-4200 RAM I can find is running at 533MHz. The 333MHz DDR2 modules are called PC2-2700. The other odd thing is, I use lowendmac.com a lot for specifications since I find they tend to list more details than Apple generally do (or at least they tend to go into more detail). On the page for the same laptop they state:
"RAM: 512 MB, expandable to 2 GB using 533 MHz PC2-4200 DDR2 RAM"
So they are apparently in agreement with my train of thought here. Not that I'm disagreeing with the official Apple specifications of course, it's just really confusing. Now I know I need SO-DIMM RAM, so I went onto an online retailer I generally use for this sort of stuff and found some Kingston value ram real cheap:
1GB, SO-DIMM, PC2-4200 533MHz, Non-ECC CL4 Unbuffered 1.8v module. Model number KVR533D2S4/1G.
Is this going to work in the laptop? If I believe Lowendmac.com, it will. If I believe Apple specs, it probably won't, or at least it may cause undesirable operation. Just to see what Kingston had to say on this, I went onto Kingston's website (valueram.com), I used the configurator search function and put in powerbook g4 as model, and it showed me a list of powerbooks. I picked mine (15 inch using DDR2) and sure enough it came up with the right page, and listed two RAM modules Kingston sell. A 512mb (of which I'll ignore), and the 1GB (the one I want).
The 1GB module was model number KTA-PB533/1G. Now just looking at that suggests to me that it is 533MHz, since it has 533 in the model name (and a trend with Kingston model numbers is to put the speed in the model name). Just to be sure though I did look for some detailed specifications but oddly enough I couldn't find any for that RAM module on their website so I googled it instead, and came up with several websites suggesting that it was 533MHz.
So, what should I do here? It would seem Apple's specs saying 333MHz was wrong, however I've got two RAM modules by Kingston here and they both appear to have the same specifications except one is obviously specifically for the powerbook, the other is just for generic laptops. So unless the one specifically for the powerbook is a different shape or something I can't see any reason why I should should pay a lot more money for the specific model, when I can get the apparent same exact RAM module for a bargain.
This is, confusing.

Strong recommendation to not go 'cheap' on the memory. Powerbooks are particular about the quality of memory, due primarily to the way Apple manages power on the memory bus. While some memory can meet Apple's published specs, it can fail in use. if you scan these discussions, you'll find people who have tried the KVR (Kingston value ram) memory and it has not worked for them. If you want to try it, suggest you get it from someplace you can return it and get your money back.
As already mentioned, Crucial (also sold as Micron) and Samsung are two brands that work reliably. Regular Kingston memory works well too. Crucial guarantees their memory will work when chosen from their memory selector at http://www.crucial.com . You can usually find a discount coupon on the web too. Samsung you buy through distributors, and I'd also recommend OWC at http://www.macsales.com . Kingston you already know is at http://www.kingston.com . You can scan the discussions for other brands that have worked (like Hynix, mentioned in the prior post, for example).

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