Posts by hastings

Quote: Originally Posted by radiowave Rip... If they weren't profitable for Dell, they wouldn't be selling them. You're both right and wrong with that statement. Yes, they make money on them. However you can...

I'm glad you asked this question Guz - being a Business Student myself, I can vouch for the 700m's awesomeness. I thought the 12.1" would be too small, but it's high resolution and I can actually hold the same amount of info that I...

Quote: Originally Posted by iwantthemango Carmel is a chipset, like sonoma. They both use Dothan processors, but sonoma is the next gen, and supports 533mhz bus, DDR2, etc. Oh, I've only heard of it referred to...

Carmel = Dothan?

I got a three year mail-in warranty with my 700m. The warranty was cheap, and worth the peace of mind.

Make sure to download SpeedSwitch XP. Your speed of 598 MHz is what your computer will probably run at most of the time when not doing CPU intensive tasks. It's the beauty of the Pentium M chip - it will throttle down it's CPU speed...

Battery life isn't decent with the 4-cell, it's great with the 8-cell but it sticks out of the back and makes it a little bit less appealing. I wish it had anything other than an integrated graphic card. Seperate media keys (play,...

I run off a 1.6 GHz, and yes it is my primary PC, and yes webdesign is one of my hobbies. I tend to run Photoshop, ImageReady, and Dreamweaver at the same time and the filters load quickly, the response is quite punchy. I've been...

You adjust to the keyboard, I can type equally as fast as I can on both keyboards now. The keyboard has literally no flex at all, hence - it's a quality keyboard.

I do all my homework on the 12" screen and it works just fine. I also have it plugged into a 19" CRT for when I'm using it a lot and I just run dual screen. I played NFSU2 on my 700m for a while but it didn't run too well,...