Posts by tntoak

Quote: I don't think anywhere else sold the 7405GX. I do know that CompUSA did not. Well someone chose CompUSA in the poll.

Right now, there's only two lines of notebooks with upgradeable videocards - the Alienware Area 51s, and the Dell XPS. The Gateways don't fall into that category.

Did you sign up for MSN Music, or MSN net access?

I was just wondering where people bought their 7405GXs from. I have noticed a lot of people mention Best Buy, but I was wondering if people had gone anywhere else.

The 7405 actually has the drivers in a seperate folder, so you can extract them as needed to update existing drivers. COmpared to most restore discs, which archive everything into compressed folders, that's a very nice feature to have. ...

Most Best Buys apparently didn't even know about the 7422 replacing the 7405, from what I've read and heard on various fora. Gateway seems to have rolled this one out silently.

Nice to see the unit getting some respect in the press. I've had several people ask me "Why in the hell did you get a Gateway?", then once they saw the unit up close and in action, they quickly changed their tune.

Just out of curiosity, what was the price? I've seen Corsair XMS in 512 available for between $85-$100, but I've had no luck with 1GB.

There are some settings that are default enabled that can cause wireless, sound, etc. not to work. By default, WinXP (especially w/ SP2) will not connect to an "unsecured" wifi network. A lot of places use MAC filtering to...

Since there isn't a secondary partition (unlike what HP, Compaq, & Sony do with their restore partitions), it should just format the drive as one volume/partition, regardless fo size.