Posts by Atragon

Quote: Originally Posted by Labmouse My old Compal CL56 in my sig with the MR9700 regularly sees me through a 90-100 min movie with a bit of juice to spare. A lot of laptops these days will do over 3 hours of actual...

If you're going to be using it on campus and bringing it to classes, get something light, when you're schlepping it around with your books, you'll be thankful. a 17" screen sure looks nice, but in my opinion, not worth the extra...

Has anyone tried the 5.1 catalysts?

But that doesn't make sense, it's not the LCD resizing the pixels like a CRT would, isn't it the driver for the video card performing the scaling? And even without 'Scale to panel size' selected, why shouldn't something like 1280x800...

Oh joy. Given that I use my 3790 rather extensively for school, that'd be a very painful option... *crosses fingers that the new Radeon drivers will fix this whenever they come out (the 5.x series)*

This issue has a thread going at: http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?p=548301

I just run CS:S in 1024X768 and live with it A suggestion to SHOW the problem would be to make an image that's 1280x800 pixels, and mark it off at 1024x768, 1280x768, and 1280x800. Then set desktop resolution to that, and take a...

What's with the speccd 333mhz RAM, I thought DDR2 (which is what the Alviso chipset supports, right?) started at 533mhz.

I hate to nitpick john, but you could have bought the 2ghz when you bought your 3790. Having said that, I agree with everything else you just said.

Fair enough, I find that at home, where I've got my WAP configured to broadcast the SSID and use WPA-PSK, the XP configuration works just fine, but at school, where the 2 wireless networks use WEP and don't broadcast the SSID, I've got...