Posts by KevinN206

I emailed Dell tech support and got this for their response: Quote: Please be informed that the 700m comes standard with a 4-cell battery. There is also an 8-cell high capacity battery available. The battery life is 2.5...

Some sites don't render correctly in Firefox (it's an excellent browser too with lots of useful plugins). It may be that IE is currently set NOT to update the current site. First, are you surfing offline? To check, go to the menu bar...

Do you think it's possible to fix the remaining battery time with a BIOS update? I think Dell can easily check the current status of everything (i.e. current frequency, voltage, brightness, cpu load...etc), and code that into the...

Quote: Originally Posted by laffingbilly the time left battery indicator is really meaningless, as it doesn't keep acurate time. You will need an external timing source to determine how much battery life you are...

My 700m is great..even better after undervolting it. A friend of mine bought a Sony T series 10.6" laptop for $2100 and now she likes mine better. Although the Sony's battery life is better maybe because it uses 1.2GHz ULV...

It should work, give it a bit of time. I know it sounds weird, but mine didn't work initially either. But after awhile, I've the time remaining. Don't really know why. Have you restarted after flashing BIOS?

I actually find WMP 10 (not WMP 9) to be very good in terms of performance and UI. I use it as my main media player (with Winamp second). So if you don't have WMP 10 already, you should upgrade it. WMP, by default, does not have a...

Quote: Originally Posted by kinaiahi The 256mb is removeable. You will have 2 dimm slots to play with, any config you like. I just got this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820221204 It was $35.99 when I...

I extracted the Inspiron 700m DSDT (ACPI) Table from BIOS version A04 (latest one right now) using Phoenix BIOS Editor (it's a demo). I'm NOT a programmer, so I do not know anything in the codes. Please take a look if you know...

Quote: Originally Posted by crawfordna Hi guys, I've been reading a bunch of information on the AS5. My 700m was running kinda hot, usually idling about 57-58 and peaking around 80-85 when under extreme load. ...