If I were you I'd be asking about upgrade options on the laptop HDD, try to get a 7200 RPM model instead of the usual (think they are 5600 RPM) - it'll help a lot with saving time / loading time etc. I think the brand to ask for is Hitachi, but there are other manufacturers that make laptop HDD's of these speeds as well these days.
Moving this to gadget section.
Better hope no wood boring beetles make their way to your machine... 
This keyboard has been an item of discussion for a while on many a forum on the 'net for a while. Those keyboards are waaaaay too expensive for the general consumer, you'd have to be a pretty bad technology junky to consider buying one of them. Personally, for that kind of price it'll have to do lapdances on a regular basis to justify me buying it.
The kind of charge needed to run 350 miles being replenished in 10 minutes would probably cause quite a bit of heat, don't think those batteries will last too long after a few repeat 10 min charges. Anyhows, what do I know, not a scientist by a long shot, just an opinion.
@anssi said:
I think that SU works already in all Vista versions, if your drivers are working OK
I understand that the only advantage of a 64-bit architecture is the possibility to address terabytes of memory, so it is understandable that software houses have no hurry to make 64-bit versions of their products. In everyday computing 64-bit is slower than 32-bit, as there is more for the memory management to waste time upon. What advantage do you see?
As to ATI, it is the other way round. Ati should make its drivers more OpenGL-compliant.
Anssi
Here is a quick intro into the differences between 32 bit and 64 bit computing.
This is a quick article on 3DS Max 9 that has been recoded for 64 bit use.
Some more on Max 64 bit. To demonstrate the advantages of 64 bit computing.
I saw a video a while ago (tried to find the link now, but couldn't just yet) about a direct comparison between 3DS Max 32 bit and 64 bit on the same spec machines and using the same model template. 64 bit computing is sooooo much faster!
Software houses should indeed step up and get their software recoded for 64 bit usage as more and more medium to high spec personal machines (with the limit of RAM 32 bit can address) are being sold. I'd say give it another year, maybe two then 4GB of RAM will be standard. 4GB of RAM already exceeds the address capability of 32 bit computing.
I'd also like to see SU scale better to multiple CPU core machines.
I get this error message with Slicer.rb (version 3.0), see image attached.
Thx for the contri, even if its via another website.
Thx for the contribution. The mouse seems a bit stressed with the wire straight like that...
I recently built a new machine (22" LCD/Intel Q6600/4GB RAM/ATi X1950GT 512MB/all the other regular stuff) that featured an ATi HD2600Pro 512MB at first. SU6 on the new machine with the HD2600Pro 512MB seemed slower than on my old machine (22"LCD/Intel PIV 3.4GHz/1GB RAM/ATi 9800Pro 128MB) so I bought the ATi X1950GT 512MB and tested it. The X1950GT 512MB was faster so I got rid of the HD2600Pro 512MB (donated it to a friend with a really old PCI-E GFX card in the end).
To cut a long story short, I don't think the HD2600's have what it takes to run SU6 smoothly.
Gai forgot to add: bragging rights if you own a licence... 
TBD, who cares if it is not free? I've bought a lot of scripts from Smustard, one more isn't going to make a difference. Please get this one done and let us have access to it.
I bought a set of Cambridge Soundworks (4.1) in 1998 and they're still going strong, on my desk at the moment.
This will be quite useful, this kind of code is long overdue and GSU doesn't seem to be doing the coding.
OMW, please please please do not stop development on this. Remember to update here on a regular basis, it will be appreciated.
@jim smith said:
thanks Mateo - I put them to good use to help dress up a so-so remodeling project.
lol, you too?
BTW, off the bat comment. Your choice of sky texture is awesome, only need to check the sun angles, this particular one isn't working well with the chosen sun angle.
@gaieus said:
Very nice. Sea-gauls right?
o_O I don't see no helmets with horns there... I'm just messing around Gaieus, I'm sure you meant sea gulls.
Thx for sharing Mateo!
Jan, thx for the added info. I'll add it to the Carrara section.
I'm locking this topic now, please report additional links as per Coen's link at the top.