Then I am still going to have this problem with my Radeon 9000 I am afraid. After about 10 minutes of playing games the frame rates drop from what was about 50 FPS to 1-2 a second and games become unplayable. On occasion the display will...
After occasional game lockups and changing drivers around, (frame rates dropped to 1-2!) I decided to try a cooling mod to my 600M in hopes of a fix. I disassembled the unit there was alot of gunk in the air intake port and in the fan...
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15.4 WXGA
I would not own a notebook with anything less than an SXGA screen. Because I know the difference, and it is like night and day for the $49 upgrade. If this becomes an issue, go to your local best...
I found this thread interesting, I recently went to work for a division of Toyota USA (my 4th week there) and I was suprised at the actual process. Most of the parts arrive to us already assembled (IE regulators already inside the doors,...
I had a mainboard replaced in my 5150 by Dell, twice. Damned notebook was less than 6 months old both times they replaced it, and the symptoms were just like yours exactly. Finally I persuaded them to buy it back and I got a different...
Ugh the Celeron would be the worst downgrade you can make. Myself I would go for the Pentium M and an SXGA screen if you really want it to look nice.
Say no to Celerons!
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I run Suse 9.2 professional as my main O/S and I do it for a reason. It simply blows all the others away for laptop distros. Everything on this dawg simply works right out of the box. Wireless card with wep key, no problem....
Actually there are viruses and worms that effect Mac and Linux as well, but they are so far and few in between that they are almost unheard of. Not many hackers really want to take the time to write something that will effect less than...