Posts by darilon

Just got my Z71V. Starting up with XP Pro disk gets me to disk partitioning where disk 0 at id 0 on bus 0 is listed with 2091580Mb unpartitioned space (um... something wrong there!). Anyway, can't create partitions so can't continue. ...

lazybum131: I'm not sure if they assemble or not - it's not really an issue for me. Frankly I'd be happy to assemble myself as that way I can use Arctic Silver instead of some generic goop. The Warrantees are all manufacturer...

I just ordered a Z71V on Saturday. I get incredibly fast replies to quote requests (every time it's been under an hour by email). I ordered Saturday late afternoon, they shipped Monday afternoon (no shipping Sundays). I got a tracking...

I use my prime rate line of credit from the bank.

My cable connection is still slower than a 10 mbps LAN. The laptop wired networking is gonna be fine for years to come. If the hardware can last that long I suspect we could still get decent use out of 10 year old lap tops 10 years...

It changes from week to week, so just be careful when you order your machine and make sure you can't get a better deal by upgrading on your own.

533 is good - if you had the 400, it could be OC'ed to 533 by default and could potentially be causing some overheating and strange behavior. I'd probably start by checking which process(es) is/are eating all the system resources. ...

You can get the dell with a 6800 but I doubt even with coupons you'd get it for 1000. I priced em out very recently.

As others have said, unless you need a computer you can move on a regular basis (ie to class every day or to work every day) it's likely you don't need a laptop at all. If you just need something to bring somewhere once or twice a...

There may be some registry settings you could change, but that's just a guess.