Posts by Silenthillnight

My m5500 has a WSXGA+ screen and I couldn't be happier. Word processing, surfing the net, etc. are all fine for me. Of course I do all these in windows and not fully expanded like some people like to do. I don't understand where the...

funny I just did a search and I heard more good things from personal experiences than bad things which mainly came from word of mouth. But to each his own.

If you live in the Southern California area, Frys is offering 2gb Patriot DDR2-667 SO-DIMM for 140. I saw it in the paper yesterday so I had to go out and grab it. Waiting on my E1705 to come in a week

The gaming difference for the cost isn't that significant to warrant an upgrade. Just wait till your laptop really does get obsolete and look to upgrade then.

well comparing 3dmarks from me and nei, there's a pretty big difference but experience game wise, I wouldn't know, we play different games it looks like, hehe.

I have the m5500 with the x1600 but with a 1.6 P-M instead of 2.0 like nei has but it plays wow pretty well. I have some of the settings up and I get around 20 fps in ironforge during peak times. My 3dmark05 score is like 4045.

the prices for the m5500 seem to be steadily increasing for some reason. I remember when it was 799 still. now 1049 I think?

I finally got my laptop today from good ol slow Fedex Home Delivery. Sadly I don't have much time to play with it today but it's working with no hitches so far.

That's not entirely true, UPS won't leave a package on your doorstep if it requires a signature. The cool thing about UPS though is that if you can't be there to sign all the time, you can set it up to where if you're not here to sign,...

Well I called them this morning and it seems that they refunded the double charge on the 5th so we'll see if I see that refund on the next statement. Anyways, now on the good side, my laptop and bluetooth adapter has shipped with...