Posts by Revenant

I am going to wait on the drives, too. Vista doesn't support Blue Ray yet, and I wanted Vista. I ordered the M1710 this week, but stuck with the 2.16 processor and 2 gigs DDR2 as well; I upgraded on other items, like the hard drive,...

High speed film is designed for a quick reaction. Actually, x-rays such as dental or routine medical don't do anything to the film being used. The film is light sensitive. What happens is that the x-ray hits a plate, causes it to...

Of course, this is notebookforums.com, not desktop.com, ha ha. You have a skewed population.

Quote: Originally Posted by fskidd I tried to upgrade the memory to 1G ddr400.There's one module on the back and I learned from this thread that the other one is under the keyboard.I will upgrade to 1G by using...

I had a Compaq Presario 2500, graphics processing is not very good, many games won't play or will crash. It is fine for other purposes though. I much prefer the Ferrari 3200.

snorre: Did you use registered (buffered) memory?

You guys are a little over the edge in conspiracy theories. More specs: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1627793,00.asp

Ouch. I read at Tom's under peak conditons it consumes 162 watts. That is going to be a hot little sucker. Might double as an easy way to prepare microwave tv dinners while you game.

The power consumption on the 9800 will be 30 to 40% higher than the mobility 9700 according to sources. It will be suitable for a DTR type laptop, but not really for a mobile solution. Probably the AMD mobility chips and the...

The Ferrari is nice as is, and not unreasonable in price. It would be fine for a few years. You can upgrade to a faster hard drive and better memory when MS64 comes out. There is always something better around the corner, if you wait,...