Posts by LoneWolf15

Lenovo currently has some killer deals, check here: http://www.dealigg.com/story-Lenovo-Coupons-Promotions I just ordered a T61 for a great price; cheaper than the Dell Latitude D630 I was sorely tempted on. First off, the shipping...

Bonus: this new release brings the Apple Certified Refurbished version of the earlier 15" Merom-core Santa Rosa chipset Macbook Pro down to an almost reasonable $1449. Since Apple refurbs are indistinguishable from new and have the...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrEvil The reason Dell stopped putting the trackpoint on the Inspirons is because IBM owns the patents to the trackpoint. Since Inspirons aren't in the same market segment as Thinkpads Dell...

You never told us your intended use of this laptop. The Gen 1 XPS is a really poor choice as battery life will go. It's essentially a desktop replacement, so if you want portability, you're screwed. I'm not a fan of the D800/D810,...

Thirded. The final BIOS for the Latitude C840 is A13 (there were quite a few revisions), so make sure you have it.

Friendly advice --it's worth buying two 512's and going to a gig of memory if you can, especially if you have a slower hard disk in the C640. Less paging to disk = faster performance. I snapped up two for $35 each on Ebay.

I have a Dell Latitude C640. It has dual antennas, range is not a problem. I've had both an Intel 2915ABG card, and now an Atheros AR5006XS card, and both have worked very well. Before that, I had a Latitude C840 (chunkier, heavy-duty...

New report: I was only running at 54Mbps. However, switching to 802.11g only on my router and going to SuperG with Static Turbo boosted me up to true 108Mbps as reported by the router. It appears that the Windows client is the liar,...

Quote: Originally Posted by chrhon The desktop 550 is using the newest installed by windows update (just updated the drivers a couple days ago). Actually i am using 1.8 for the firmware now... didn't help the 108...

Quote: Originally Posted by chrhon Using 1.7.. which I beleive is the newest. Using newest drivers from Gigabyte for the card. Hmm. 1.7 is indeed the latest...I'm using 1.6 without issue. I built my wife's...