Posts by Roarak

What DrMooCow said, You arent actually getting a discount when you pay cash, you just dont have to pay the credit card companies.

If you are comfortable around pc hardware its not hard at all. If you look around you can find disassembly guides on various websites. In most cases it wont even void your warranty.

For the ebay idea, i was talking about pulling the 1.7 and putting it on ebay, then buying a 2.0 from newegg or something similar. Just the processor, not the whole laptop =) Ohh and for the record, i do feel your pain. My 3790 was...

Ohh my, can you say eye strain? =)

Why didnt you wait to order it then? Pull out your 1.7 and sell it on ebay and pick up a 2.0 from Newegg if you are afraid of being someones prison bitch. Hell, it would probably be cheaper after dealing with all the shipping anyway.

These retailers are probably making $50-100.00 profit MAX per notebook. When you start epecting them to recoup a $200.00 price cut by intel you are drastically going to effect thier ability to stay in business. They purchase these...

1.7 --> 2.0 is not a drastic enough performance increase to warrant the hassle of returning it. I would aslo hate to risk having a new notebook show up with a dead pixel or something. PCT and DL are not huge chains, they dont have...

The g/f has a virtually silent 700m, it only gets about 4 hours on the larger battery though. I think i would look at the M6N as well, but the 5+ hour battery life requirement is going to is going to be tough to fill.

Newer games are starting to take advantage of 256mb's of vram, but i will definatly agree with Wiz and Nark that the MR9700 just doesnt have the horsepower to take advantage of the 256mb. It would be able to load more textures into...

Get SpeedswitchXP, you can configure it for max power on battery. Very nice program.