Posts by ratm1992

the only problem w/ ibm laptops is ghosting (like with dvd playback)

artic silver 5 (i believe only hypersonic uses it, though you can apply it yourself--check w/ your warranty of course first) can reduce the heat of the cpu (better heat dissapation to fan or something like that)

roughly the same, but p-m notebooks have better battery life and the compal 56 runs cooler apparently (i mention it because the compal seems to be the favorite of this forum)

64 bit will be no big deal for you since your graphics arent upgradable and 64 bit games will be too much for a 9700 (if it had axiom or mmx it would be a a different story) as far as word processing/surfing go there will be no...

could the college prevent the usb drives from being used? id prefer one over a floppy drive (for moving documents/presentations/etc in order to print them in computer lab)

only graphics pros probably need that much by the time 256 is necessary it wont be able to keep up anyway

with 64mb you have to turn down settings to save memory

if you can stand a 128mb 9700 the ax7 would be better (less heat more battery life) and no, dothan only uses 333mhz ram

it also only has a 64mb 9700 and no 7200rpm drive (though that is user upgradable)

one thing i would recommend is to check with the reseller/company heres an example from velocity micro's warranty statement If diagnosed as necessary by the phone technician, we will ship you the part(s) needed to repair your...