Posts by Fxi

Sorry to hear of your problems, but we are grateful for the pics and the "honest review" that is all to rare these days! The quality issues aside (assuming Dell should fix those for your asap!), a cross between the M6400 and...

If you consider that Montevina was intro'd Jul/Aug and now 4-5 mo later we are seeing machine introductions, the timing of a month or two for the 1730 replacement makes sense. There is always a delay till we get actual machines.

*eagerly anticipates pics*

Montevina is a decent update (not the end of the world, but very good) so I'm in the same boat as you. Higher than 3870 or dual Nvidia with Montevina and I'm gtg. Until then I'll wait.

1 Get the warranty - when you need it there is no substitute 2 Sure hope that over time they work to make these things more durable. Having replaceable cards would probably lower the "worry factor" because notebooks are...

Quote: actualy I think the precision line is a great alternative the M6300/6400 is on par with the M1730 and I think it looks better and the M6400 has the LED screen option. That's for sure. It looks better, is...

Probably you want to wait for the M17x upgrade so you get both a Nvidia and ATI based solution that is Montevina based (Montevina brings quad core laptop cpu/1066&1333 DDR3 mem to 8gb/1066 FSB). Right now the M17x is based on an...

One of the hints that the GPU is bad is to boot into safe mode and try to change the display to a resolution other than the default 640x480, like 1024x768. I mean try a higher but still "standard" vga resolution that is not...

First off the 8800M SLI doesn't exactly "suck". hehe But I suppose folks can be expecting more for their money with that being rather old in power compared to modern desktop gpu's. I agree, next model will have to have LED...

Well the lay of the land seems to look like this: There will be a flow of updated machines using Centrino 2, while they work to clean out old models. There "may" have been a problem with the 9800m's such that Dell didn't...