Posts by draklava

You can configure the touchpad to scroll although the Dell Alps driver (and touchpad) is not as nice as the Sager - it scrolls but not continuously One cool thing on the Sager touchpad (assume it is due to hardware and driver) is...

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I did not order bluetooth with my 8600 and now I'm thinking I might want it to connect to my phone or pocketPC. Does this install as a mini PCI like the modem and can I order it from Dell (or somewhere cheaper)?

sounds like a frustrating experience I guess if you plan on keeping this notebook for a while you won't remember the annoyances in a couple months when you are enjoying the better specs that should have cost a lot more! Every...

Yup - 400mhz FSB... here is the official spec list from my Powernotebooks.com invoice... (in case I missed anything else) the drive is 5400 RPM NO Toshiba 2.0GB PCMCIA HDD: 15.7" SXGA TFT Active Matrix w/ATI Mobility...

i'm selling my old sager cuz I bought a fancy new laptop and would like to send this one off to a good home... It is a Sager NP8880 (purchased August 2002) P4 2.4ghz, 1024mb RAM 64mb ATI 7500 3d video card (up to 1600x1200 @ 32bit...

yup - i've got the alps driver installed and running but tried to install the synaptics one because I liked my sager touchpad (with synaptics) better... but it did not work so I gave up

I tried to install the synaptics drivers and they did not seem to be compatible with the touchpad hardware. When I ran the touchpad options utility it gave me options for an external mouse but not the touch pad options.

On a couple differend occasions I have closed the lid of my I8600 and when I open it again I can not get it to wake up. The green lights are still on and it makes a sound like it is trying to do something but the screen never turns on...

I just noticed yesterday that my CD/DVD+R drive is spinning really loud when installing a game and playing... and it was vibrating the whole laptop. I don't recall it always being this way (I've only had the laptop for a month) Do...