Posts by blackmarkerface

I have a dell xps m1710, and it keeps making this weird constant rattling noise. It's not too loud, but loud enough to be annoying in a quiet room. I know for a fact its not the fans, as it makes that noise even when the fans are not...

I just bought a generic battery off of ebay. It has a 6 month warranty, and im sure it lasts longer than my oem (which only gets 10-15 minutes if that). We'll see, I'll keep everyone posted!

So I have an emachines m2350 and need a new battery since my current one only lasts about 10 minutes tops. I noticed that Gateway is selling it for $129.99 and various websites online sell them from $100 on up. Ebay, however, is...

It seems to pack alot more than what my current laptop does, and I'm able to play old stuff like counter strike and such. I wish I could actually see an alienware laptop and like use it for a few minutes. From some of the pictures they...

I am a colllege kid on a budget (no more than $1200) looking for a new laptop, and I seem to like the alienwares. I wanted to buy the sentia3450 base model, but wanted to know if it was worth the money or if I am overpaying for the...

So I am only a freshmen in college, and need a new laptop. I currently have a job alongside school that pays about $800-1000 per month. I want to purchase a new notebook, but would rather do it on a financing plan with somebody like...

I hate how all the new laptops sold in stores now all come preloaded with windows vista. I mean sure, I can load on XP but all I have is pirated versions and its a pain to get all the windows updates and stuff installed and working. ...

I still use Windows 2000 professional (unofficial sp5) over xp lol. I'm actually going to install windows xp on my laptop tonight, though. I have Vista on my desktop pc and it runs pretty smoothly for most parts, but its kind of a...

Could it be that I only had 768mb of ram when I installed Vista? I upgraded the lappie to a full gig since then (reinstalled windows xp) but I really want to experiment with Vista. I am too scared to try a bios update in case it ruins...

I was just wondering anybody's experiences with Avaratec notebooks. I need something small and portable for school, but it has to have a little bit of power (for mp3's, internet, word, very light gaming mostly old stuff like age of...