I have had 2 8600's, one with flex in the keyboard and one without. I had a look at them both before I returned the extra one and they are entirely different keyboards. The one with the flex had way to many ventilation holes beneath...
I have no games installed on my computer yet and I am looking for a way to test my system. I am going from The 384MB of RAM that came with the sytem to 1280mb of RAM. I got a free 1 gig stick of RAM from dell so I just want to test...
This is just to funny. Dell actually charges $593 for a single stick of of 1 gig RAM. My bill, which I don't have to pay, says $632 with tax. So happy I am getting it for free.
I actually talked to a guy named Sean on the online Dell Chat. About my screen, it still has more light leakage then I would like. But the only time it is ever noticable would be when watching movies. I have a big screen to watch...
As for an answer to quesiton 2. I had the same thing when I first got my laptop. After a few days it just disappeared. Weird, all of a sudden I tried to listen for it and I haven't heard it since the very first day as if it was...