Posts by sccpu3d

call them and find out. worst case scenario return the laptop and place another order. I'm sure dell would rather save on the costs of processing a return, preparing a new laptop for you, shipping, and customer dissatisfaction just to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Squidly Connection is high speed Cable.. I also have another laptop X200 toshiba ( my wife is playing on it) and that one is lag free in WOW.. we share the same wireless...

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve@NBF It's probably made by Intel, can you confirm in device manager? The wireless that came with the M17x is actually a broadcom chip (Dell1501 aka AW1501 aka Broadcom...

I'm sorry the original post wasn't clear. I run an airport extreme base station and using the aw1510 i'm getting the 2 bars. The 4950 gets a pretty consistent 3-4 bars (sometimes 5) while the 5300 gets a consistent 4 to 5 bars (of 5)

So i recently got a m17x and this thing had the worst wifi card in it ever. My airport extreme a floor apart was consistently at 2 bars(poor) while my old m1730 with a intel 4950 was getting next to max all the time (4/5 bars, good to...

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very unlikely. Probably a 1720, but you're welcome to try spending a million years on the phone with them. It's more likely they'll give you a full refund on your laptop than give you a 1730.

Not worth it. From everything i've read, the ppu only supports a handful of games, and it doesn't do that much anyway. Save yourself the money.

I always use the chat, so it doesnt make much of a difference to me, but XPS chat closes at midnight, which kinda sucks. Dunno about regular support, but I think they open 24/7. I like chat because I can always pull up my previous chat...

Last i saw, prices for that T7600G was hovering around $500, but it's pretty rare...even for ebay standards