Posts by delphigreg

Hi Phillip, Great review and pics, you may have sold me. I've been debating between a HP zt3000 and a Dell 8600, but neither either had all the specs I wanted (HP) or cost too much (Dell). This looks like a nice balance between the...

What I'd like to see is Dell continue to support the i8600 line with more upgradable GPU options...

Started playing around with it; seems like its less than $100 to extend from 1 year at-home to 4-years at home. Pretty darn cool!

Run 'cleanmgr' (type from Start | Run), select the second tab, then delete all but the current restore point.

After using both McAfee (could not get to work) and Norton (too invasive), I found and tried F-Prot. Small footprint, non-invasive, easily disabled during gameplay, and $50 gives me 10 licenses for all my home...

I know it won't matter much, but its what I've benchmarked my systems since 3dmark2001 came out, so I can always have some relative number to compare against (and I was happy when I went from 1800 to 2400 on my current notebook! )

Now that folks have had it a bit, is the new CPU making any difference with benchmarks, like 3dMark2001?

I've found on other laptops the discs themselves are often to blame. If a CD/DVD warps or is just a dud, the resulting virbration noise can be quite loud. Noticed this on me Jedi Knight: Academy CD, was very glad it wasn't used during...

Wooster, Bummer on how it has turned out. Just read all 8 pages of your journey with the i8k, in an almost identical config to what I'm considering. It seems people either get a perfect machine out of the box, or they have issues...

I've been reading this thread for a bit and went to my local Gateway store to make the purchase. As I am currently being hosed-over by a depot repair by Toshiba (now in its 7th week--- another story), service and warranty are as...