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Ok so I got my replacement R15 yesterday for the one that died on me the other night. What I got was an R15-500 (I had the 300) and it is clearly a refurb.
Should I be satisfied with a refurb?
So anyway I instantly noticed that the IR pickup was much quicker than on my other unit. While I was on line with tech support (had a setup issue) I asked about it and the girl's answer was both interesting and a bit of a bad omen IMO. She said that as you put more and more onto the R15 (be it shows to record or recorded shows or custom lists) the unit slows down. "it is basically like your home PC." As soon as she said that it hit me. We have all of these power users on here and we are all packing this box full of stuff. The box then runs like crap and locks up...just like your home computer IF (note the big if) your home computer is old or vastly under speced. So the R15 is a PC that essentially has little to no RAM....they under speced the thing and NO MATTER how many software upgrades you put on this thing in time it is going to get sluggish and lock up. That ticks me off a good bit because that basically tells me that in reality there is no hope for this thing.
I also asked about the major patch that has been rumored here to be coming soon. She says it is scheduled to be rolled out late in 2006 (after Christmas) or in early 2007.
So is there any way to help help this box? I know you could mod a tivo and add HDs for more record space...but if the R15 uses the HD for virtual memory (which from the sounds of it it does) I adding HD space should also prevent the unit from having so many lock ups.
Thoughts?
Should I be satisfied with a refurb?
So anyway I instantly noticed that the IR pickup was much quicker than on my other unit. While I was on line with tech support (had a setup issue) I asked about it and the girl's answer was both interesting and a bit of a bad omen IMO. She said that as you put more and more onto the R15 (be it shows to record or recorded shows or custom lists) the unit slows down. "it is basically like your home PC." As soon as she said that it hit me. We have all of these power users on here and we are all packing this box full of stuff. The box then runs like crap and locks up...just like your home computer IF (note the big if) your home computer is old or vastly under speced. So the R15 is a PC that essentially has little to no RAM....they under speced the thing and NO MATTER how many software upgrades you put on this thing in time it is going to get sluggish and lock up. That ticks me off a good bit because that basically tells me that in reality there is no hope for this thing.
I also asked about the major patch that has been rumored here to be coming soon. She says it is scheduled to be rolled out late in 2006 (after Christmas) or in early 2007.
So is there any way to help help this box? I know you could mod a tivo and add HDs for more record space...but if the R15 uses the HD for virtual memory (which from the sounds of it it does) I adding HD space should also prevent the unit from having so many lock ups.
Thoughts?