Posts by Digitalman

If I were you, I would get as little as 512 Mb of RAM from Dell, then sell it on eBay. Then buy the 2 x 1 Gb stick of RAM from newegg or crucial. GL!

Howdy all, I have a few questions with regard to partitioning. I took a screenshot of Partition Magic on the factory install of WinXP Home. http://img469.imageshack.us/my.php?i...gicinfo2pu.png I am about to reformat and do a...

Quote: http://www.clevo.com.tw <-- Spot the similarities. LOL! Reeks of dodgyness. I am very happy with my new Dell. (mmmm WUXGA screen)

Quote: You should provide a list of all benchmarks you want. Is this already somewhere available. http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=133711

Quote: Originally Posted by meatpimp Is the DVD drive removeable in the E1705? I really want/need a second hard drive in there like I have in my XPS. Any thoughts? AFAIK, you cannot take out the ODD, and slot...

Quote: Originally Posted by GS Jon I can now report that the BF2 demo at native resolution and medium settings for everything else plays AWESOME! That's very good news, even more so since your system has only 1...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sydney_bristow I dont remember off the top of my head what this bottleneck was ... Latency / RAM timings (CAS).

You have to remember, while the DDR2-667 has faster throughput than DDR2-533, it has high latency. On the other hand, DDR2-533 has comparably lower throughput but low latency. Thus, performance difference between the two end up being...

Go with the Dell.

A bit expensive ... assuming US dollars. (I wish people would state the currency for all prices since this is an international forum!).