Posts by the_royal_we

call me crazy... but what is left to replace once they've replaced the mobo, lcd and hinges/housing? I guess I see their point about attempting repair... but I don't have a lot of availability to sit around while they try one thing,...

I've had my 6000d for over a year and have been quite satisfied with it. it's gone from being a portable media player and sofa-based internet machine to pretty much my full time computer. no complaints really whatsoever.... well......

do you use your dvd drive much? I notice significantly more drain when copying a dvd on battery. If you do use it primarily to watch movies, I'd suggest getting dvdidle. It queues the movie to hard disk and therefore uses it a bit...

yeah... there does seem to be a few reports of the intel software causing the dropouts. I'd try that out for sure. Also, have you tried changing the channel that the router broadcasts on? if there are a lot of RF producing...

is it plugged into the power adapter or on battery? When on battery the card is set to default to a lower power setting which reduces the range. that can be modified in the properties for the wireless card by disabling automatic power...

must be a whole lot of trouble then!

I have no problem with mine and wear contacts or glasses 100% of the time. keep in mind that you will probably be closer to the screen on the 6k than you are on a desktop unit. I also have never seen any sparkles with my samsung...

ahh... must be different for dell canada.

first off, download all of the current drivers from the dell site. put them on a cd along with any other files you need/ want to keep or save. after that, boot from the windows xp cd. you may have to change the bios so that this...

so it was an additional $150 more than the cost of the upgrade? I think you did what I'm suggesting he doesn't do. it was $89 or so to upgrade to the 9 cell, but $129 to get the 9 cell in addition to the 6 cell. for $40 you get the 6...