Posts by notebook_ftw

For the M90, the Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz is standard, and the upgrade prices are the same as the Yonah upgrade prices. But seriously, if they can get 4 hours and 16 minutes of battery life with a 7900GTX, then I could get like 5 hours on my...

Vista also runs faster on my M90 than XP. It's pretty wierd. There are more running processes, more things going on, and the commit charge is higher, but nonetheless, it boots up faster, goes off faster, and things load faster. Wierd....

Actually, now I'm running it in widescreen at native res (1440x900) with no AA and sound back at max and it runs fantastically. I could probably turn AA up to 2x and make it look amazing with a little hit in performance, but I like...

Okay, the other day, I tried to repair XP because for some reason it wasn't loading DirectX and I couldn't install NFS:MW. After about ten tries, it still wouldn't repair, it kept hanging up at the same spot. So finally I gave up and...

Uh, I don't see anything. What am I missing?

Sounds like either a faulty card or a game incompatibility. I was getting similar problems like that in F.E.A.R. but that was cause I accidently had my Control Panel set to 16xAA for all applications. The only other time I had this...

Oh yeah, give 3dmark06 a try. It will only give you a better idea of where your machine sits. For instance, the 2500M scores about 2000-2500 points better than me in 3dmark05 but only about 700 points better in 3dmark06. Plus,...

Man, your college is pretty stupid with their Internet usage. My university offers free wi-fi using Funkware's Odyssey client manager for 256-bit encryption using our university username/password (which we use for email, grades,...

Uh, your score is quite low. As you can see from my sig, I did much better with less RAM and a barely faster CPU. I doubt I would get that high now that I have all my programs installed, but I don't see it going down 500 points. You...

The P-D 930 also features 4MB L2 cache vs. the Core Duo's 2.