Posts by Leomania

Quote: Leomania you clearly have too much time on your hands! You're not gonna believe this... but I'm sitting in a cottage that's a 5 min. walk to the beach in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii. My kids were watching some TV...

This comes too late for you to make any use of it in your buying decision, but others may find it useful. Or not. Two processors or one dual-core processor in a computer (assuming an appropriate operating system is installed) can...

Quote: Just curious as to how hot my PS should get. Both the power brick and the laptop itself will get warmer than your body's usual alert system would like. It's probably normal. I say "probably"...

And BTW, you can safely remove that second partition if your customer doesn't plan to use it as a backup partition. Use a program like Partition Magic to delete it, then grow the Windows partition to reclaim the space. There may be free...

I'm surprised no one mentioned this yet in this thread. The 100GB drive is probably partitioned into an approximately 5GB hidden partition for the Dell Restore area; a 65GB C: drive for Windows & programs; and a 22GB Backup...

Quote: i had a hitachi in my 6000 when shipped, it was odd, clicked every 2 seconds, very loud. dell replaced it with a fujitsu now, and its pretty quiet, and fast enough. I put a WD 40GB drive into my old Inspiron...

Quote: Back on topic, is anyone else's hard drive audible? Audible? Yes. Annoyingly so? No way; close enough to silent for me. The internal fan is another story. Get your core duo busy for awhile and the fan...

I got about 2.5 hours out of my 6-cell, and I have since bought a 9-cell which ranges from 3.5 to 4 hours. That's with pretty gentle usage, no gaming, not much fan activity.

Quote: Originally Posted by Adagio Any recent benchmarks? I would love to see some tests on the 533/667 & Core Duo subject I ran the numbers a couple of weeks...

Quote: my recommendation would be to remove the creative drivers completely and just install the sigmatel HD drivers. unfortunately a lot of people got tricked into adding the "audigy" option, thinking it was...