Posts by vicious77

I've always found Dell's XPS line seems awfully tacky and gaudy and just.. kind of insulting to the integrity and maturity of the people who buy their systems. These laptops aren't toys ffs they're powerful pieces of electronic equipment!

I'm pretty sure it's PATA having looked at the tech specs of the toshiba drive i currently have on their website.. How can you tell when it was originally built? I got it in June '05 if that's any help...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Laptop-Hard-dr...QQcmdZViewItem will this hard drive work in my Inspiron 9300? If not what drives do people upgrade to?

what I can't understand is that the 780 still costs as much as it does what with the advent of dual core and all that.. is it scarcity of actual processors that keeps the price up?

Quote: Originally Posted by Skillz Thats pretty much all you can do to get the most out of your i9300, unless you running a 4200rpm or 5400rpm drive, then upgrade to a 7200rpm; you'll notice the increased...

do you mean like speed of zipping and unzipping files?

Oh yeah just as an additional query I've just emailed Dell asking them to send me a copy of Windows and asked that they send me a clean copy, i.e not a Dell recovery disc containing all the 3rd party trials and largely useless Dell...

yeah it definitely won't read I've tried.. I'll probably try a chat session as I hate calling up and having to wait for ages and then painstakingly explain and re-explain my quandary to a lady in india.. grrrrr. thanks anyway!

ok i realise i'm being shortsighted here and leaving out the old school MLS with Pele, Beckenbauer etc. But I think the difference then was that the US national team were atrocious whereas now and in the future they're looking good. The...

like i was saying it's a generational thing... there hasn't been a superstar icon in the MLS before now but millions of young football players/fans will now want to grow up to be Beckham. Apparently Shevchenko wants to move to the MLS at...