Computers and Related Hardware/Software

cori wrote:

Thanks! But I think you guys will hear back from me later on... :sweat:

You're not going to know yourself, it'll be so much better (I hope! I don't remember seeing the specs for it :fingerscrossed: )

Anime Dad wrote:

You're not going to know yourself, it'll be so much better (I hope! I don't remember seeing the specs for it :fingerscrossed: )

I posted the specs on my LiveJournal. I posted it somewhere on this forum too, but I can't remember.

cori wrote:

I posted the specs on my LiveJournal. I posted it somewhere on this forum too, but I can't remember.

Whoa. Looks like a screamer! Should knock your socks off ;)

Anime Dad wrote:Whoa. Looks like a screamer! Should knock your socks off ;)

Are you sure you posted this comment in the right thread? :naughty:

cori wrote:

Are you sure you posted this comment in the right thread? :naughty:

Maybe not! Can I be there when you fire it up for the first time? ;) :naughty:

monta wrote:you can't do that at home??

Of course I can... I just wanna see how much faster it'll be with a Core 2 Duo.

or would it be more efficient if you do it at work? :hehe:

Most likely. :beaten:

I'm posting right now with my new laptop. :dancing: Let's hope that I don't encounter anything that'll frustrate me. :fingerscrossed:

cori wrote:I'm posting right now with my new laptop. :dancing: Let's hope that I don't encounter anything that'll frustrate me. :fingerscrossed:

Then don't install ConvertX. :P


Speaking of which, time to set up VirtualDub and put this CPU through its paces... :victory:

Okay, finished my hardsub...

The processing was a little faster than real time: Episode 1 of Nodame was 57+ minutes and the hardsub took about 52 minutes.

At home, with my Athlon XP 2600 CPU, the same hardsub job took about 75-80 minutes.

Not bad. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:Okay, finished my hardsub...

The processing was a little faster than real time: Episode 1 of Nodame was 57+ minutes and the hardsub took about 52 minutes.

At home, with my Athlon XP 2600 CPU, the same hardsub job took about 75-80 minutes.

Not bad. :victory:

I'm guessing this was the 720p one, then?

FarOutFreak wrote:I'm guessing this was the 720p one, then?

Ooops, no. The 704x396 version.

I'll re-run the test using the 720 version next. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
Then don't install ConvertX. :P


Speaking of which, time to set up VirtualDub and put this CPU through its paces... :victory:

Well, I still have to install Convertx because I have a bunch of series that I'm in the middle of authoring and I don't want to change menus halfway. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:Ooops, no. The 704x396 version.

I'll re-run the test using the 720 version next. :victory:

Yow, the job for the 720 version has an estimate of 2:45... :sweat:

Dang, I didn't expect the 720p file to take that long, seeing that the file itself was only about twice the size (1.5GB vs. 750MB)... :sweat:

I'll try running DVD Shrink using a DVD movie (Rounders) that's about 6.4GB and see what happens... It took my home machine 22 minutes to analyze the data and 1:45 to compress it to a single-layer DVD.

am i the only one that thinks Nero 8 is complicated??? :bonk: and it's super slow :usuck:

where the hell is the create option. like data dvd or etc.

bmwracer wrote:I'll try running DVD Shrink using a DVD movie (Rounders) that's about 6.4GB and see what happens... It took my home machine 22 minutes to analyze the data and 1:45 to compress it to a single-layer DVD.

Wow: For DVD Shrink, analysis only took five minutes and the encoding just a mere 25 minutes... Quite an improvement in speed. :victory:

Not sure why the hardsub of the 720p file took so long... Maybe VirtualDub isn't optimized for multi-CPU/core processors... :sweat:

Found out that the company paid about $1100USD for this machine... Seems rather pricey, IMO... I think a third of the cost was for the software bundle: Adobe Acrobat R/W and Microsoft Office... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Found out that the company paid about $1100USD for this machine... Seems rather pricey, IMO... I think a third of the cost was for the software bundle: Adobe Acrobat R/W and Microsoft Office... :sweat:

When you get a budget to use for equipment, you go gung ho and buy big. Spend less, and you'll get less next time. ;)

Yup. Crazy but true. Next time, tell them you need a big SAN fridge with a few petabytes of storage to stream dramas and mp3. All fibers of course. :hehe:

Office is like $350, even with volume licensing. :bleh:

dochira wrote:When you get a budget to use for equipment, you go gung ho and buy big. Spend less, and you'll get less next time. ;)

Budget?

We have no budget here: if it wasn't for my reasoning it out with the VP, I'd still have the same old PC.... :grumble:

Our president (The Queen) wouldn't sign off on her own Stay of Execution. :shakehead:

But that's for another thread.

First problem with new laptop (Vista):

I authored a DVD last night with the files on one of my external harddrives and it worked fine. Today, when I turned on the laptop with the external HD still plugged in, the Windows screen wouldn't show up. That's fine because it happened with my other laptop (with XP).

So I turned off the new laptop and unplugged the external HD and tried turning the laptop on again. I then plugged the external HD in and it said that there's a "USB device not recognized." Ok. So I unplugged and plugged it back again and the same thing happened.

I tried plugging in my other external HD and that worked fine.

A little frustrated, I tried plugging the non-working external HD into my desktop (XP), but it gave me the same "USB device not recognized" popup, which doesn't make any sense since I'm always plugging and unplugging my external HDs with the desktop.

Please tell me that my external HD is not corrupted in some way because I had a lot of files on it. :( If it is, I hope there's some way to recover the files.