Posts by Sydney_bristow

If those pictures are truly representative of your screen, then that is really horrible. I cannot see the light leakage at all on my 9400 anymore, unless it is under a certain type of lighting and only then on an all black screen (such...

here are my T2500 core duo (2.0) results: 1M: 30 seconds 2M: 1 Minute, 11 seconds since you guys want screenshots for verification, here's one:

Received my replacement dvd+-rw drive today. It wasnt the Sony that I took out. Instead, it was a NEC nd-6650a. Works beautifully and all my dvd reading problems are now gone. Much quieter and less rattley too!

Quote: Originally Posted by tuxrunner It depends on which model you get and what you are doing with your notebook... but the cheap slow fujitsu disks in DELL notebooks, which are the slowest you can buy, are a big...

Quote: Originally Posted by Digitalman Another thing: not sure if there are any miniPCI express TV tuners out there. The I9400 no longer uses the PCMCIA standard right? Yep, it uses Expresscard and not PC...

If it's too expensive for him and he's not in a hurry to have it now, you could wait a couple of months for prices to drop dramatically and coupons to show up. Depending on what he needs the computer for, he could get a Pentium M...

Core Duo. My Core duo is blowing away my P4 3.4ghz HT on my work software (photoshop, premiere pro, aftereffects, illustrator, encoding, etc.). It's not even close, so far. For games, the core duo seems faster too.

Very bright. In fact, a coworker was commenting to me that it was so bright that it hurt her eyes, so i turned down the brightness and she said 'much better!'

5400 is very adequate for gaming.

Ewww. I was thinking about connecting a wireless mouse/wacom to the 9400 while it was on battery mode, but this made me change my mind. Hope they fix it soon!