Posts by SavageEmbrace

b2s - did you notice a large difference in performance going from 512 to 1024 mb of RAM?

And it has been a fantastic machine. It has played all the games I have wanted it to play (including Doom3 at pretty good settings). It has awesome sound for movies on the go; the battery life is as promised (right at 4.5 hours with...

So.. eh.. anyone know?

Sooo.. when I bought my M505X, the lady at the Gateway Country Store told me that the warranty starts right away. I have read on here that I actually need to call Gateway and start the warranty after I buy my laptop. Which is it?

I love everything about the M505X; even the dead keyboard spot in the "JKL" area. The one thing I hate is that on a website that I frequent (a message board for car enthusiasts) the little mini icons that you can add in a...

Update: With the laptop on battery power, and video card settings set to non-maximum performance, I got this: 3DMark2001 test: 8813 marks. 3DMark03 test: 2639 marks. Not sure how these compare, but the Mark03 test looked a...

Just did it at 357/222 I couldn't get it to be at 355 - those sliders are really inexact. New score is 21,425.

Gobo.. I think I will be clocking it right about now, heh. I forgot all about that..

I got 19,578 as my score. Anyone else do theirs?

Call it in stolen and get your money back.