" This episode of textile is sponsored by -- easy ski guide. Netflix. And go to any dot com. Coming up when they show budget laptops upscale dvds -- Blu-ray and how to reuse for real hard drives in a single box. Maybe and we got a ton more still blame you fighter jet parked at armored tank villa Florence. Now. -- I'm -- Norton about month Thanksgiving is coming."

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" Mid. You know. Are moving over Thanksgiving black Friday's big shopping day out of control -- you go that you. What is up on Long Island by the way people anxious mental means. It's to get a good deal on TV or vacuum cleaner work her wrangler jeans -- about the savings and come on is not. An excuse to triple people to death literally. Terrifying the -- consumerism that. Ever get so wrapped up in on that. Isn't what came first check the site. Is -- store it's just pumping out these deals to get people's congress at that people have the free time to go shopping take that got the day off -- vacation. It's just really disappointing that people get that worked up about it that they have to bust through the doors moments before the story that happens. Give people a break man I outlined. Cyber Monday. Speaking of manufactured situation yet totally totally pretend that even exit. From like 34 years ago."

" Cyber Monday yeah. Well you sir do exist when -- win win brick and mortar retailers are realizing how many people were buying on line but even better actually almost healthy this week I don't have a fever. Yeah I -- today."

" No -- an injury now. It's happened on the virgin America -- I think it has much better but still hit my. Britain and number two to usually -- panic for no -- is good for me at coffee and brain tonics. Files keep picturing him right up there or Red Bull and vodka economy going on -- that last week products were almost healthy. Is looking for new notebook ladies and gentlemen. Yeah Watson well what is the flat top hundred dollars I want to live from if you -- might replace my desktop Blake. Well it's amazing how much know -- you buy 300 dollars on at least compared how little you got 300 dollars a year ago. A fifteen inch widescreen monitor core two duo processor two gigabytes of memory. Wi-Fi at least a 160 gigabyte hard drive and CD dvd burner will all be there might even get netcam or bigger drive. I'm in two Mac notebook now. For 800 dollars annually to find someone refurbished or reselling some."

" Over refurbished right now you can get a one of the original MacBook like white Mac books for 949 dollar -- of 999 dollars."

" Says forget that night and -- nine dollars for thirteen inch white MacBook ice fishing not so cheap. 300 dollars won't be getting an ultra portable again. Sub four pound notebook with quirky duo processors are talking it to screen which are very nice we've looked at quite a bit lately. They cost a bit more money than you probably want to spend about 1200 bucks and they usually helps some freaking me."

" He had to gaming thing. You don't actually noticed as you mentioned there are well in your budget but he pretty much let -- that -- books if you want to replace your desktop especially for gaming gaming is a righteous pain in the ass on a notebook. So and also want to -- want to keep an -- when you look at it notebook reviews especially during the comparing performance scores. Is the configuration on the site or the magazine uses for testing. Sunday we'll see inquiry new -- the start to -- 600 dollars what I will actually call turned it up to configuration at prices that well over a thousand or 1500 dollars it can be done. What my fever notebooks out there Dell studio fifteen. Great ratings all over the web starts of 599 dollars people with -- Intel core two Q 5052. Gigabytes of ram a terrific heat my hard drive. A two megapixel webcam. Another fifty bucks -- to a 320. -- hard drive 125. Bucks he to a to a fifty gigabytes in the 200 rpm drive. Another 125 bucks you can drop in an internal unity on the on the work -- Verizon sprint or eighteen T. I personally would spend forty bucks on the ninth cell battery over the standard six -- mattered to give you the maximum battery life. What sucks because there's a lot of sucking involved in the books is that you can't get -- 256 megabyte eight yen building radio any C 3450. Upgrade I you -- better graphics card and the Intel X 3100 graphics you find them practically everything in the planted these days. Went out ponying up for more expensive model it starts at a thousand dollars or 999. Dollars to look at the exact price. That's pretty typical for Dell HP. There're some decent Acer and Lenovo Thinkpads about 850 with dedicated graphics. Frankly I am all for 3-D gaming consoles -- desktops it's just so much cheaper to do it there than on the notebook and so much easier to upgrading desktop than it is to upgrade the notebook. And it's 600 don't know book will be used -- but. He's so much power for so little money these days."

" on the -- in the past that they are usually one -- scale pretty well."

" We're the ones that weren't happy about side had fifteen minutes of battery life -- pretty graphics card that'll is -- but I apparent and it MacBook pros are pretty -- that. Yeah epic gaming that's also even farther away from is that and ultra fresh faces and if you hit your mail he'll look for 3000 dollars but. And things like fourteen pounds -- everybody likes the idea of a seventeen screen until they're trying to carry it from place -- thank you and suddenly you're like this just like the ones trail but it weighs eight pounds."

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" Do questions scare the crap out of sight yes your question -- Steve dramatic chipmunk look for. -- Next question comes to us from James up in Canada he writes that Christmas is on the corner not planning on getting the planet dvds. For my dad their awesome I want the look on his new HDTV and I was wondering if -- scaling dvd player is a good idea. Obviously it is going to look better but for the money are upscale dvd is going to look as good -- I believe them all together. It would like to say something but the man who did."

" in upscale dvds are great. Especially from a large collection of dvds. There is no way upscale dvd is going to look is unbelievably amazing. Especially if we have like being -- piece green. As the Blu-ray discs are going to look."

" I have to say -- it planet earth. Maybe your answer would be different. If -- were there any old dvd if he's about her back is like the reason why you may HD basically like I mean it's so incredible -- How not only have they shot it and how it it just looks like there are African -- on your television just common that's yet but it's amazing certainly."

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" At 32 inch TV it's not going to make that much of a difference because all in May not going to be able to tell. The difference between the upscale and HD and everything looks good on iPods screen exactly going at pocono -- big TV -- my gosh."

" It and that's a good let you know if you want to save money. It's -- all the great players you know upscale regular dvds Tracy resolution -- scaling dvd players are super cheap at this point in the CT. -- live internal Steelers but I knew what the issues is this some. It's not all HDTV scaling is pretty -- feelings created equal some of them -- especially if you shop for -- below into the market. You know some amendments some are bad even some of the upscale you know expensive monitors have really -- stealing technology built into them. Sometimes it may be worth you know by an external device to Europe's feelings for you. Isn't going to look cute gap. You know especially -- dad's got a 42 inch or smaller like forty -- smaller -- TV. And Vietnamese I think that's a good. Can look fine. If you want to really he's got out before -- humans 1080. And the blue rate player is the Blu-ray discs are just going to -- beauty pass inheritance. -- If we're talking like a bad transparently zero effect -- my favorite movies but really does not benefit. You know from you know or even this."

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" Since. That is dip into the virtual mailbag once again indeed Chris frankly -- often asked question. How expensive it is to keep the windows gaming PC upgraded bit advisable to go to consul in just use the box for Internet. I tend to be an -- yes span that makes any difference. One other deciding matter is at the Netflix streaming is available on any of the council's forgive my ignorance I have been an avid PC gamer for fifteen plus years beginning tired of upgrading. And it not working correctly. Chris from Woodstock Georgia. -- cornucopia of different questions isn't it."

" I -- I have a lot of friends who over the years have given up on PC gaming because it was just easier to have a console just sits there under the television for years and you don't have to deal with upgrading her graphics card compatibility. Or something that I particularly hit about certain aspects of PC gaming where you. Biting and find out that they kind of tension the alpha or maybe early beta and gamma of 2000 megabytes and patches to actually is something playable hopefully sometime. You know. Near the time when you actually physically bought the box -- your local team's shop and brought."

" I don't know if everyone has that problem I. It was -- really abandoning your experience. -- I like the first copy of warcraft need to update -- patches but anyway. I disagree because I think that there's a lot of benefits to PC gaming over consul gaming I of course -- consul gamer as well. -- excuse me probably in trouble for the segment. Anyway. If your foot on the RTS which is real time strategy games and you gonna be commanding a lot of different units middle of the night on these here. -- hot keys for different groups and drag over -- large group of units like tanks or whatever you need to vampires -- moral suddenly that. Didn't and my -- so excited. And I people also say that you -- of first person shooters it's easier to change because you've just got the mouse and keyboard control you don't need to deal alt auto -- stuff with a bit easier but also a little less accurate sometimes as well. I just hasn't your style there are a lot of good RTS games for counsels -- of revolutions as one of them I'm really Angel had an outline. Xbox and history. -- however -- under the Netflix thing it's really did do that Xbox live if you -- a -- of membership just need to have a Netflix account you can sign in on the and you can isn't stream on stuff that's in answering Q and it's pretty have been doing a lot lately myself. So we just -- if you feel like. Having that kind of experience. With art yes where it's very easy to set up hot keys magnet thing or council that. It's gonna require let's upgrading you can just kind of play your games and then worry about patches and updates we -- update of course from time to time. But it's not going to be the -- behind them the same two hours long patch download."

" And times councils more fun because in the whenever consul in the house but it. -- did you console. Are finally -- from -- well who's got a very pure question related. Well -- answer from a couple shows back. He writes to imagine how much coffee you drink can you share the secret of which brand or kind of coffee from her."

" well. I exit Indians from blue bottle which is a local Bay Area the it's patient institution pressure and there could slow food movement this exquisite my -- coffee booty call and."

" You call. It it's it's a nice cup of coffee it's a pricey bag economy it's twelve bucks but that actually could."

" Not to agree in -- buyback of of on ground beans and at Safeway or stop and shop for like eight seminary box so. For that difference in quality and my mind it's totally worth it. We have a -- homes actually grind our own coffee artery grinder with a -- October actually moved. She really is the coffee there when I have may want to have copy coffee as opposed espresso. I UC -- trip coffeemaker. Which -- say it's like a glass -- earlier in the filters yourself and you for the crimes and that I -- ground for that because I don't want had to keep changing the settings. On the grinder and against the course grounds mixed in with -- These -- grounds."

" So you know you gotta have a separate coffee for that. Mom sometimes I I just usually by the store brand for -- coffee. I haven't gotten around to buying higher quality brand that it will be going to relevant disaster a couple of weeks ago. Every out of a cup of espresso beans. And a -- and -- down to economic it and blue bottle. Certainly does Safeway and Ollie had was peace and Starbucks. And some other kind of got caught it was definitely. Some liquor and I really like pizza just pizza sorry. And I don't like Starbucks but they were the only espresso. Grind that they have left. So it was on sale so -- by the espresso grounds for Starbucks to bring home. And three kids it was like fruit -- water okay I tried even if -- machine and it was so cat so ungodly bad. I just I was about throughout the bag -- globally it's just try to Starbucks. Coffee because it's obviously not finally grabbed enough to use as espresso. And -- use the district and it works okay. And now."

" But the story. -- I grew up on chock full of nuts which is impossible -- the west coast she spent a lot of time hunting it down my wife thinks it tastes like water so we pretty much live on major Dixon's -- in the French press. Which means I basically drink mud outside the home I pretty much drink anything. When I'm on the highway prefer pilot house blend or coffee beans and -- myself and I don't forget I don't -- to finding an incredible pain in the ass."

" Q I recently revealing into the reasons really missed mine contaminants could back as we do not have one -- the area. I just like buying. My regular I think you have to be -- like I was raised in Dublin governments -- not chock full regular they give you your coffee with just the perfect cream and -- I have to ask her premature it is in irregular with the blueberry coffee and donuts I'm real chocolate -- and they them and his."

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" Mid. You know. Are moving over Thanksgiving black Friday's big shopping day out of control -- you go that you. What is up on Long Island by the way people anxious mental means. It's to get a good deal on TV or vacuum cleaner work her wrangler jeans -- about the savings and come on is not. An excuse to triple people to death literally. Terrifying the -- consumerism that. Ever get so wrapped up in on that. Isn't what came first check the site. Is -- store it's just pumping out these deals to get people's congress at that people have the free time to go shopping take that got the day off -- vacation. It's just really disappointing that people get that worked up about it that they have to bust through the doors moments before the story that happens. Give people a break man I outlined. Cyber Monday. Speaking of manufactured situation yet totally totally pretend that even exit. From like 34 years ago."

" Cyber Monday yeah. Well you sir do exist when -- win win brick and mortar retailers are realizing how many people were buying on line but even better actually almost healthy this week I don't have a fever. Yeah I -- today."

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" Over refurbished right now you can get a one of the original MacBook like white Mac books for 949 dollar -- of 999 dollars."

" Says forget that night and -- nine dollars for thirteen inch white MacBook ice fishing not so cheap. 300 dollars won't be getting an ultra portable again. Sub four pound notebook with quirky duo processors are talking it to screen which are very nice we've looked at quite a bit lately. They cost a bit more money than you probably want to spend about 1200 bucks and they usually helps some freaking me."

" He had to gaming thing. You don't actually noticed as you mentioned there are well in your budget but he pretty much let -- that -- books if you want to replace your desktop especially for gaming gaming is a righteous pain in the ass on a notebook. So and also want to -- want to keep an -- when you look at it notebook reviews especially during the comparing performance scores. Is the configuration on the site or the magazine uses for testing. Sunday we'll see inquiry new -- the start to -- 600 dollars what I will actually call turned it up to configuration at prices that well over a thousand or 1500 dollars it can be done. What my fever notebooks out there Dell studio fifteen. Great ratings all over the web starts of 599 dollars people with -- Intel core two Q 5052. Gigabytes of ram a terrific heat my hard drive. A two megapixel webcam. Another fifty bucks -- to a 320. -- hard drive 125. Bucks he to a to a fifty gigabytes in the 200 rpm drive. Another 125 bucks you can drop in an internal unity on the on the work -- Verizon sprint or eighteen T. I personally would spend forty bucks on the ninth cell battery over the standard six -- mattered to give you the maximum battery life. What sucks because there's a lot of sucking involved in the books is that you can't get -- 256 megabyte eight yen building radio any C 3450. Upgrade I you -- better graphics card and the Intel X 3100 graphics you find them practically everything in the planted these days. Went out ponying up for more expensive model it starts at a thousand dollars or 999. Dollars to look at the exact price. That's pretty typical for Dell HP. There're some decent Acer and Lenovo Thinkpads about 850 with dedicated graphics. Frankly I am all for 3-D gaming consoles -- desktops it's just so much cheaper to do it there than on the notebook and so much easier to upgrading desktop than it is to upgrade the notebook. And it's 600 don't know book will be used -- but. He's so much power for so little money these days."

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" We're the ones that weren't happy about side had fifteen minutes of battery life -- pretty graphics card that'll is -- but I apparent and it MacBook pros are pretty -- that. Yeah epic gaming that's also even farther away from is that and ultra fresh faces and if you hit your mail he'll look for 3000 dollars but. And things like fourteen pounds -- everybody likes the idea of a seventeen screen until they're trying to carry it from place -- thank you and suddenly you're like this just like the ones trail but it weighs eight pounds."

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" Do questions scare the crap out of sight yes your question -- Steve dramatic chipmunk look for. -- Next question comes to us from James up in Canada he writes that Christmas is on the corner not planning on getting the planet dvds. For my dad their awesome I want the look on his new HDTV and I was wondering if -- scaling dvd player is a good idea. Obviously it is going to look better but for the money are upscale dvd is going to look as good -- I believe them all together. It would like to say something but the man who did."

" in upscale dvds are great. Especially from a large collection of dvds. There is no way upscale dvd is going to look is unbelievably amazing. Especially if we have like being -- piece green. As the Blu-ray discs are going to look."

" I have to say -- it planet earth. Maybe your answer would be different. If -- were there any old dvd if he's about her back is like the reason why you may HD basically like I mean it's so incredible -- How not only have they shot it and how it it just looks like there are African -- on your television just common that's yet but it's amazing certainly."

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" Upscale in this process where you take lower resolutions signal or or you know chunk obviously seven point -- for twenty years and -- about four or five. He's really in Tripoli in to a higher resolution. -- my seventh when he if you decide when PTV in 1900 by Tammy you again at ten PTV they basically. A -- mathematical formula to fill in the extra pixels relatives that. So they've been -- the scale it right you have this little tiny bit of media with a big black frame around so they basically guestimate. Where the pixels would be if your original source file with the same resolution as the monitor. The thing is you can't make up information is not there especially when you look at a lot of dvds. We -- maybe that the best transfers or or in codes on their blue guess they're going to have more information in these huge amount more information like point five gigabytes of information verses like the gigabytes before you buy it. Of -- dvds are always going to be softer and less vibrant and Blu-ray asked him. So I constantly watch dvds an upscale dvd player I've got a Sony -- one of the best friends out there you you can get d.s one for well under a hundred bucks now. And that look good scaled up this 720. Now let's talk about television size."

" At 32 inch TV it's not going to make that much of a difference because all in May not going to be able to tell. The difference between the upscale and HD and everything looks good on iPods screen exactly going at pocono -- big TV -- my gosh."

" It and that's a good let you know if you want to save money. It's -- all the great players you know upscale regular dvds Tracy resolution -- scaling dvd players are super cheap at this point in the CT. -- live internal Steelers but I knew what the issues is this some. It's not all HDTV scaling is pretty -- feelings created equal some of them -- especially if you shop for -- below into the market. You know some amendments some are bad even some of the upscale you know expensive monitors have really -- stealing technology built into them. Sometimes it may be worth you know by an external device to Europe's feelings for you. Isn't going to look cute gap. You know especially -- dad's got a 42 inch or smaller like forty -- smaller -- TV. And Vietnamese I think that's a good. Can look fine. If you want to really he's got out before -- humans 1080. And the blue rate player is the Blu-ray discs are just going to -- beauty pass inheritance. -- If we're talking like a bad transparently zero effect -- my favorite movies but really does not benefit. You know from you know or even this."

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" Since. That is dip into the virtual mailbag once again indeed Chris frankly -- often asked question. How expensive it is to keep the windows gaming PC upgraded bit advisable to go to consul in just use the box for Internet. I tend to be an -- yes span that makes any difference. One other deciding matter is at the Netflix streaming is available on any of the council's forgive my ignorance I have been an avid PC gamer for fifteen plus years beginning tired of upgrading. And it not working correctly. Chris from Woodstock Georgia. -- cornucopia of different questions isn't it."

" I -- I have a lot of friends who over the years have given up on PC gaming because it was just easier to have a console just sits there under the television for years and you don't have to deal with upgrading her graphics card compatibility. Or something that I particularly hit about certain aspects of PC gaming where you. Biting and find out that they kind of tension the alpha or maybe early beta and gamma of 2000 megabytes and patches to actually is something playable hopefully sometime. You know. Near the time when you actually physically bought the box -- your local team's shop and brought."

" I don't know if everyone has that problem I. It was -- really abandoning your experience. -- I like the first copy of warcraft need to update -- patches but anyway. I disagree because I think that there's a lot of benefits to PC gaming over consul gaming I of course -- consul gamer as well. -- excuse me probably in trouble for the segment. Anyway. If your foot on the RTS which is real time strategy games and you gonna be commanding a lot of different units middle of the night on these here. -- hot keys for different groups and drag over -- large group of units like tanks or whatever you need to vampires -- moral suddenly that. Didn't and my -- so excited. And I people also say that you -- of first person shooters it's easier to change because you've just got the mouse and keyboard control you don't need to deal alt auto -- stuff with a bit easier but also a little less accurate sometimes as well. I just hasn't your style there are a lot of good RTS games for counsels -- of revolutions as one of them I'm really Angel had an outline. Xbox and history. -- however -- under the Netflix thing it's really did do that Xbox live if you -- a -- of membership just need to have a Netflix account you can sign in on the and you can isn't stream on stuff that's in answering Q and it's pretty have been doing a lot lately myself. So we just -- if you feel like. Having that kind of experience. With art yes where it's very easy to set up hot keys magnet thing or council that. It's gonna require let's upgrading you can just kind of play your games and then worry about patches and updates we -- update of course from time to time. But it's not going to be the -- behind them the same two hours long patch download."

" And times councils more fun because in the whenever consul in the house but it. -- did you console. Are finally -- from -- well who's got a very pure question related. Well -- answer from a couple shows back. He writes to imagine how much coffee you drink can you share the secret of which brand or kind of coffee from her."

" well. I exit Indians from blue bottle which is a local Bay Area the it's patient institution pressure and there could slow food movement this exquisite my -- coffee booty call and."

" You call. It it's it's a nice cup of coffee it's a pricey bag economy it's twelve bucks but that actually could."

" Not to agree in -- buyback of of on ground beans and at Safeway or stop and shop for like eight seminary box so. For that difference in quality and my mind it's totally worth it. We have a -- homes actually grind our own coffee artery grinder with a -- October actually moved. She really is the coffee there when I have may want to have copy coffee as opposed espresso. I UC -- trip coffeemaker. Which -- say it's like a glass -- earlier in the filters yourself and you for the crimes and that I -- ground for that because I don't want had to keep changing the settings. On the grinder and against the course grounds mixed in with -- These -- grounds."

" So you know you gotta have a separate coffee for that. Mom sometimes I I just usually by the store brand for -- coffee. I haven't gotten around to buying higher quality brand that it will be going to relevant disaster a couple of weeks ago. Every out of a cup of espresso beans. And a -- and -- down to economic it and blue bottle. Certainly does Safeway and Ollie had was peace and Starbucks. And some other kind of got caught it was definitely. Some liquor and I really like pizza just pizza sorry. And I don't like Starbucks but they were the only espresso. Grind that they have left. So it was on sale so -- by the espresso grounds for Starbucks to bring home. And three kids it was like fruit -- water okay I tried even if -- machine and it was so cat so ungodly bad. I just I was about throughout the bag -- globally it's just try to Starbucks. Coffee because it's obviously not finally grabbed enough to use as espresso. And -- use the district and it works okay. And now."

" But the story. -- I grew up on chock full of nuts which is impossible -- the west coast she spent a lot of time hunting it down my wife thinks it tastes like water so we pretty much live on major Dixon's -- in the French press. Which means I basically drink mud outside the home I pretty much drink anything. When I'm on the highway prefer pilot house blend or coffee beans and -- myself and I don't forget I don't -- to finding an incredible pain in the ass."

" Q I recently revealing into the reasons really missed mine contaminants could back as we do not have one -- the area. I just like buying. My regular I think you have to be -- like I was raised in Dublin governments -- not chock full regular they give you your coffee with just the perfect cream and -- I have to ask her premature it is in irregular with the blueberry coffee and donuts I'm real chocolate -- and they them and his."

" So you're there's going to be a lot of good cup of coffee might top recommendations are. Blue bottle have a bunch locations in the area -- opening up a big market there is when it plaza this line. In Hayes valley. And this morning and recently. And then. Four -- isn't anything that has really been talking Davis. And then --"

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