Posts by SEMC

I have a R50e, its rugged as hell and survived one and a half years of study abroad in the Middle East. While I cannot guarantee that your's will have similar capabilities, I am pleased with the durability and battery life of this...

Glad you nuked Vista. Vista is was so not ready for a mass launch with no XP as an alternative OS option during purchase on a new PC. The whole mass exclusive Vista only launch should have occured next year after a general release...

I'm still waiting until a few months/year(s) after the first service pack in June (or so they said). Seems Vista is having teething pains right now. Just a few weeks ago, a client brought in her new notebook she'd bought running Vista...

you still using omega drivers g? Thanks for the info.

God, i hate resurrecting this thread. Hey Gman, would you still recommend that 432/236 speed rating? I lost my settings in a reformat and I can't remember what I had mine set to.

Dang G-Omaha, sorry to see ya leave, but as you said there's not much left here. So why not pick another brand and tell us all about it? It seems a lot of us 8790 owners have moved on to other models and brands. Dell Hypersonic, its...

That's corporate only. The company he works for has a contract that allows that replacement to occur. Regular customers are not allowed to self replace critical components. Even my dad and I have to have certifications from Dell to do...

Especially since some of the reviews online show piss poor results compared to the Dell xps 1710. Now I want a real review to put those thoughts to rest. Personally, I think those prototype tests were done without drivers, becuase...

What I was refering to with the Dell/Alienware/Falcon paragraph is the general "overpriced" feeling I got from them. The support comment was directed to Dell. However, my only Dell techsupport/rma experience has been at the...

I've been reading around looking for stuff about the current and next gen of notebooks and it really seems that there's nothing out there that's truely stable that has any performance to it at all. IBM/Lenovo - Solid notebooks,...