Posts by morsel

1) Do you prefer to build your own PC’s or buy a branded system? a) Prefer to build my own 2) How often do you replace or upgrade your PC? a) Every year d) 2 – 3 years 3) How important do you feel an SSD is to system...

1) Do you currently own an SSD? Are you planning on purchasing one or more in the near future? I own a 160GB Intel X25-M G2 and 160GB Intel SSD 320. I want to get a 240GB Intel SSD 520 soon. 2) If you’re planning on purchasing an SSD,...

1. I use only Intel SSDs. Unless Intel becomes nonviable for reliability or performance reasons, I will stick with Intel for their vastly superior reliability. Approximately 50% of the people I know with OCZ SSDs have had drive failures...

barakaspeed, thanks for your write up. I finally installed a Synaptics touchpad in my 9300 and have a few comments. I didn't mind the response of the old Alps touchpad, but the lack of horizontal scrolling in Firefox was extremely...

Last night I altered the power settings to do nothing when the lid is closed instead of hibernating, and manually hibernated before closing the lid. This morning the 9300 resumed without turning the display off, waiting 5 seconds, and...

My 9300 had similar problems with the screen not turning on when resuming from hibernation after installing bios version A04. Falling back to version A02 fixed that problem. My 9300 has another, perhaps related problem: when resuming...

3M Microfiber Electronics Cleaning Cloth A Microfiber cloth is non-scratching, non-linting, washable, reusable, requires no expendable cleaning fluids or pads, and costs less than $5. I love mine.

Lay a conductive antistatic mat on your desk under the laptop and wire it to AC ground. Use an outlet tester to make sure AC ground is really ground and not hot or neutral. Alternatively, wire it to a water pipe. Always touch the mat...

Offering to buy lunch for someone from the San Francisco Bay area to meet me at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto to show me their Dell Inspiron 9200 WUXGA side by side with a Sony Vaio A290 at the Sony Style Store. Send email if...