Posts by eskimo_socks

Try XPS... you can get that much from it...

ooo.. gota walk the dogs... maybe this will be done by the time I'm back... "send prayers to the bios gods to not kill another of wackmacs cards"

Hey - Be happy - Thats a very nice laptop for a pretty good price. From what I hear dells service isn't up to much anyway - and your getting it now rather than in a few weeks. Have fun when it arrives tomorrow.

don't suppose anyone could tell me exactly where in the sound - I can't find it

I know I shoudn't be happy - but I am... Me and my 9200....

Thats strange - I have a Dell 9200 with exactly the same spec as you (7200 RPM HDD tho), run HL2 and CSS at 1440x900 and never have any probs at all (everything on high, water on Reflect World, NO AA or AF) In terms of battery life...

surprisingly light (I'm typing this with it on my lap) - but that is a monolith of an adaptor... my old 2500 had one thats tiny in comparism

In terms of DVD's I get 2/3 hours out of the six cell battery and 3+ out of the 9 - with screen brightness on full and the processor set to max battery - it makes no real difference in terms of playback. 4 hours with the six cell doin...

The omega drivers are a set of custom drivers for graphics cards, they're based off the latest set of offical drivers with the benefit being you can install them on your laptop. Try them, the worst that can happen is that you start up in...

Then again it will be interesting to compare the battery life of the i9200 to the i9300. Why don't you try out Half Life 2 - It does run really well on my i9200. If you really want a better card why not look at the alienware 51m, the...