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The MSI GT735 is a nice affordable gaming notebook computer currently going for around $1000 CDN. Here’s the issue though – the model we got from NCIX has 4GB of RAM, yet it comes with 32-bit Windows Vista. As most people are well aware, the 32-bit version caps out at a little over 3GB of usable RAM – the rest is wasted.

Unfortunately, as great as the GT735 is, MSI doesn’t offer up 64-bit drivers on their website – so even if you get Vista/7 x64 to take available of all 4GB of RAM, you may be worried about the driver issue.

Well worry no more. continue reading…

If you’re using VLC for Mac OS X and playing files over the network, you might be noticing some stutter, lag, delay, freezing, etc every so often. Basically your video’s happily playing along, and the screen will freeze for 2 or 4 seconds, then play again. You may also find that Quicktime DOESN’T stutter or freeze. Of course it doesn’t help if Quicktime won’t play your video and VLC will.

Sound like the issue you’re having? Here’s the fix… continue reading…

After years of not having to worry about wireless, I was forced to buy a new router to replace a fried one (lightning) and was now looking at wireless-N. Where I was stuck was trying to figure out was if I should be going for one of these “Dual-Band” Wireless-N thingies or not. They supported both 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz but that’s all the box in the store told me (aside from the extremely helpful worthless marketing).

If you’re a bit new to this as well, keep reading. If you just want to see what I have to say about the D-Link DWA-160 Dual Band Wireless N USB adapter, skip down a bit. continue reading…

Oct 25 2009 Update: before plunking down money on a paid anti virus program with activation, you may want to read http://mattgadient.com/2009/10/25/anti-virus-software-and-activation-why-free-just-might-be-better-than-paid/

With the final version of Windows 7 finally being released by Microsoft on Technet, and having a subscription, I decided it was time to grab a copy and start playing with some anti-virus programs to see what the ideal paid anti-virus program might be.

The most commonly talked about AV’s tend to be the offerings from Symantec (Norton), Kaspersky, and NOD32. They all offer free 30-day trials, so away I went. I grabbed the following:

• Kaspersky 2010 (not as easily found on the site, but they have a link stickied in the forums which installs as a trial just fine for those who want to do their own checking)
• Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.0
• NOD32 v4.0 continue reading…