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Does anyone have any tips for cleaning shiny keys on a keyboard? Know what I'm talking about? Where the grease (I guess) from your fingers makes the keys that you use a lot very shiny? For instance, the place where I hit my spacebar...
Updated with initial 8-cell results. Not too surprisingly, the 8-cell lasts almost exactly 2x as long as the 4-cell (plus a few minutes). Does anyone else have corroborating results?
Regarding the wireless card question, I did a test with it both on and off. (I used the terminology "WiFi", in case that's tricking anyone up.) It only resulted in a 2 minute increase in battery life. I think that turning...
I decided to actually put my relatively new 700m to the test. I would encourage others to do the same type of test, and post their results! I have both an 8-cell battery and a 4-cell battery. My specs are: Dell 700m with Pentium M...
Thanks for the suggestions... Dilbatt: I do realize that, and I've disabled that "feature" for the time being. (However, even when it was enabled, my icon still didn't show up -- hidden or not). jadams951: Actually, if I...
I recently purchased a Dell 700m, and I haven't really loaded that many programs on it. I did wipe the harddrive, and reinstall a clean version of WinXP SP2 (along with Office and a few other apps). For some reason, the battery icon...
Quote: Originally Posted by RENNtecher So there is something "wrong" with the battery sensor. I don't think its software, I have tried getting another program to read the battery sensor but it said something...
Quote: Originally Posted by Scarpad Would this be too Large for the 700M? If you were buying one for the 700m, you would probably purchase the 12" one ( http://shinza.com/product_info.php?products_id=45...
Quote: Originally Posted by Xarthan what are you guys running for benchmarking? 3d2001? Yeah, I just ran 3dmark 2001 and the associated PC Mark. Nothing new or exciting.
Hey, thought I'd share a bit of benchmarking I did tonight. I recently purchased a 60GB 7200rpm hard drive, so I stuck that in my Dell 700m (1.6ghz, 512mb, Intel 2200, CDRW). By the way, if anyone decides to reinstall the harddrive...
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