Posts by cjcox

The M70 is still rather new... but as Intel figures out their next gen dual core for laptops, I imagine we'll see a replacement (M80?... dangerous name). Personally, I wouldn't want to see one based on the current dual core from...

Mine is a 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid. Sporty, great gas mileage, and very, very reliable. Doesn't cost an arm and a leg... not a Porche or Lamborghini.... and I'll know it will out live all of those. It's economical and a relatively good...

The answer is "no" unless you upgrade the motherboard. That's not a Dell problem, but rather an Intel one.

I doubt it will be a lemon. You'll hear lots of horror stories about Dell support. But all in all, I find their support to be timely and fast. Of course I have the Complete Care 3yr. warranty.. not sure if that matters or not.

As weird as it sounds, Linux uses the built in speaker as a mic on my desktop.. and it works!

My first computer was an Osborne I. I was king when I went to college. Had a 300 baud modem that fit in one of the disk slots below one of the floppy drives. I could do my mainframe programs in Wordstar and upload them to the...

Nothing is hotter than a full bore P4.. likely running full tilt (so don't count the powersave stuff).. otherwise you wouldn't be asking about an opteron. Opteron costs too much. There are better solutions for a laptop. AMD is...

Dell D600 (not the D610). It's a bit flimsy but everything works. Mine has the 1350 wireless (broadcom)... I use ndiswrapper, no problems using SUSE 9.2/9.3. Can suspend to disk. Accelerated Radeon graphics (I hear that there are...

I use kaffeine for standalone mp3, wmv/avi/quicktime/etc. and DVD/VCDs. However, for its stability, I use the mplayer-plugin for embedded video inside of websites. The kaffeine plugin just doesn't work as well IMHO. I used to use a...

I'm running SUSE 9.3 64bit on my dual Opteron w2100z with no problems. I'm running SLES9 on a 4 dual core (8-way) DL585 with 8G ram... we're still testing that one.. but looks pretty good so far.