Posts by Steelgrave

I bought one last weekend and chose not to do a clean install. The extra 'crap' (aol etc..) all uninstall pretty cleanly. There's about 8-10GB in a hidden partition of all the restore stuff, but even with all my stuff installed I still...

Bought mine a few days ago, it seems to work flawlessly. If you have a line in your screen I would say return/exchange it.

I just bought mine friday and decided to not do a fresh install (it actually cleaned up pretty good so I figured why not). Although I didn't get any restore CD's (in fact no CD's at all). I really like this little laptop, but the...

Nice writeup. How big is the power supply? (Is it a brick like the larger XPS's have?) How is the heat issue I've read about? Is it melting/warping the case or anything else? (My gen1 XPS the case is warping right underneath the...

Quote: Originally Posted by Corvus_Corax And not only that, but you don't have to put up with this ridiculous runaround when trying to find a 100gb 7200rpm drive. I can't believe how dishonest some of these people are. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Corvus_Corax Are there any 100gb 5400rpm drives with 16mb cache whack? That may be what I end up going with. From what I understand they are marginally slower than the 60gb 7200rpm...

Quote: Originally Posted by KevDA Great - some maroon at Seagate probably sent the wrong info out to the channel, and they all put it up on their sites. I found it on a Canadian site as well, but it said to phone for...

Yeah I just cancelled my order with superwarehouse. Since I ordered it basically this morning and as of 4:20CDT my CC still hadn't been charged I called them. Apparently they never really had them in stock (even though their site said...

Well I'll get my company to pay for it ultimately. I do alot of intensive stuff with my machine for work (software engineer), so every little bit helps. I was just curious what others experiences were with it before ordering...

Quote: Originally Posted by LittleJohny actually that site has been posted THREE times now... and btw, it also says, "Status: Discontinued" That just changed then in the last few hours. The...