Posts by ChrisLilley

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn I meant did you extend the current warranty, now that you only have one left. Oh. No, in one year I hope to get a new machine

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn Did you extend the warranty? No, apparently my company bought a five year warranty when it was purchased.

My M90 turned out to have 5 year warranty, not 3 as I had thought. (Its now 4 years old). Which is good as it was starting to get really flaky. Dell came out and replaced the fans, the GPU, and indeed the motherboard so its all working...

Quote: Originally Posted by lycante So I found this thread via google and decided to post up... My M90 has just fried its third GPU, a 7950 GTX... What should I do to stop it frying them apart from keeping the damn...

Did you get the external monitor working meantime? If so, how?

Quote: Originally Posted by moonland Thanks for your opinion! And especially with my scope of activities maybe I would do more good if I add more RAM at a later point (it comes with 4GB) and a nice SSD More...

3700M is a dual pipe design with a substantial heatsink, see this picture http://www.parts-people.com/images/products/D949K.jpg 2700M has a similar fan placement but I don't know if it has a dual...

Yes, expresscard *slots* support both. The trick is finding an *expresscard* that isn't just USB and actually uses PCIe.

I agree that its pretty handy for graphics professionals, especially given the increased use of OpenGL to accelerate 2D imaging tasks.

Quote: Originally Posted by dave-p I could see the Engineering Department buying these Isn't Engineering the entire reason for these? Not 'business' (don't need this to run powerpoint and excel).