Posts by DarthPierce

Quote: Originally Posted by sleey0 From reading some threads over @ notebookreview, I believe they are unlocked because I see ppl posting about getting their 8400's very close to the performance of an 8600 via...

thanks for the update... always good to see the opinion of someone who owns a machine rather than speculation

rumor mill says the end of this month for the successor to the 1710. I've not seen anything about a replacement for the 2010.

Quote: Originally Posted by Fidget just because you see more than one fan does not mean it will have SLI... nobody has promised that in the new xps. in fact the "leak" didnt talk about that at all which would...

Quote: Originally Posted by ACHlLLES I didn't say it was such a good value, what I meant was days of value & performance on Inspirons are pretty much done (atleast it seems like it for now), not to mention base card...

Quote: Originally Posted by ACHlLLES Was comparing to Inspirons.. and I highly doubt XPS performer will go down in prices. I haven't seen starting prices below 2k since XPS line started. Nicely configured HP ...

Quote: Originally Posted by destruya I confused this with the upcoming mobile Penryns. That's what I meant by less cache. The desktop versions have 6 and 12MB, which seems a bit of a pissy thing to me. The...

it has the same amount of l2 as the desktop chip.... 4 meg. the x7800 and x7900 are merom based chips... not penryn (which won't be out till xmas time; those will have 3 o 6 meg of cache... )

no, those price cuts will be reflected on online retailers pretty quick.... (can't lose market share just cause one guy can sell em cheaper).... However, the July 22 price cuts are not affecting the mobile parts AFAIK. So they won't be...

core 2 duos are 64 bit, but dell ships with 32bit vista because driver support is better for it. (they get fewer complaints of xxx doesn't work with my new computer but did with my old one)