Posts by Rayt

What is the battery life you are getting with your 8710w, and under what kiind of usage conditions? Also, if anyone has the 8710p version, can you answer the same question? Thanks for your time!

DDDa Thank you for your response. I guess I'll borrow some DVDs over there to see if they work on my laptop without any software mods first. I'll also look into buying a TV tuner when I arrive. Rayt

I'm moving from the US to Australia in a couple months and plan to use my American Dell XPS Gen 2 as my TV while overseas. I realize that in Australia, the TV format is PAL (as opposed to NTSC here in the US). First, can the American...

Quote: Originally Posted by starbuck Has any one else noticed in the retail version of FSX that performance is really poor even with the system in my sig, I manged to get good frame rates with all the autogen off...

Quote: Originally Posted by .PoNeH Well, I have a Sanyo 9-cell battery and I am beginning to think that it is a brand issue. I have taken a lot of precautions to optimize battery life and I am still getting under 2...

Hi GOD OF WAR I had the same problem last month on my XPS Gen 2, although I'm not sure if it is the exact same trojan. It was also an antivirus trojan that caused annoying pop-ups and generated a false infection warning about some...

Quote: Originally Posted by .PoNeH Why not? I find that as far as performance goes, they had it right with the Core Duo processors. Now something that I find often overlooked is the battery life of these portable...

I think that battery life in the CNET article can't be right. That's way too good to be true.

By the way, I forgot to mention in my previous post on the universal laptop battery that the APC Model that I bought says "Up to 8 Hours of Continuous Power" on the box, which apparently translates to about 2 hours for...

Quote: Originally Posted by Baver Bleh, wish I got a smaller laptop now for college. This battery length is going to kill me.. Don't worry. If battery life is an issue for you, as it is for me, there are...