Posts by chelnov80

Mine won't be here until Sep 3...still a long wait. It sucks! Over six weeks!

You don't seem like you are in a rush...might wanna wait until some first-hand user reviews start to trickle in (which should be soon enough)...we'll find out how long the batteries last with different types of usage...But it sure is...

kbar:I will second amm37 on most things...although I do not know how having a dedicated graphics card will drain more memory...it can most certainly drain more power. RAM can usually fairly easily be upgraded by user...and I have come...

Ordered one yesterday with the following specs. Processo:r T7300 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB, 4MB Cache), O/S: Vista™ Home Premium Edition System Color:Crimson Red Casing Memory: 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz Display: LED...

I don't know if this might interest anybody, but I noticed another wierd thing with my battery. Initially it stopped charging beyond 69%, then it went upto 75% after recalibration and stayed there. Recently, a couple of times I...

Just want to add my name to the list of people having this problem. Couple of things really surprise me: 1) Why is everybody having this problem around the same time (mine started about last week) (~3-4 months after purchase). 2)...

In the device manager, even though I see my HDD and DVD rom on different channels, I see the 'Intel 82801FBM ULtra ATA storage Controller - 2653'??? And I don't see a separate 'SATA' controller listed. Does that mean even though drives...

The file system benchmark in Sandra on my SATA drive give me about 30mb/s with or without the DVD rom in the bay. Can somebody do this with a PATA drive to confirm if there is actually performance hit? And whether having separate...

Compared to the LCD on a friend's HPZE5000 (i.e an ordinary LCD), the Z71V is very good: quite crisp and sharp and the colours are more vibrant...compared to the trubrite in the toshiba I had before I bought this, the Z71v doesn't look...

Quote: Originally Posted by smilepak After carefully looking at your picture again, I would like to correct myself. You do have two individual channel. Your HD is SATA on a Primary Channel as a Master, However your...