Posts by JeffMD

1) Do you prefer to build your own PC’s or buy a branded system? a) Prefer to build my own 2) How often do you replace or upgrade your PC? b) 12 – 18 months 3) How important do you feel an SSD is to system performance? b) Pretty...

Just wanted to add to this story.. my e1505 battery died about a year and a half ago... and like the original owner found it's hard to run around with no battery because it is also the battery cover, yet windows complains loudly when...

err, darth, can you put in some quotes so we know what your referring too? ^^

From the looks of it, LED is more expensive, but less things to go wrong, blow out, less energy used. I don't buy the brightness or vivid color issues. These are backlight solutions and hava nothing to do with the actual LCD part....

If you geniuses havn't figured it out yet, activations are unique. Giving it out would just get it deactivated quickly.

The Vista you will get from dell will be using an OEM key wich is tied (via hardware checking) to your laptop. You can install it as many times as you want to your laptop, and it can be installed on any other laptops of your model, but...

Quote: Originally Posted by burningrave101 two physical single core processors are somewhat faster Says who?

atx, as strange as it is.. hyperthreading shows up as 2 meters under xp's task manager.. anyways, yes, home supports multi core cpu's just fine. I also opted for the home version cause I didnt want the overhead crap from the media...

drilling holes..hahahaha.. anyways.. yea ive been looking for a nice small clip on of some sort, but have been unsucessful.

From what I searched, this laptop only supports 2 channel sound configs. You only use one cable coming from your headphone jack right? Any sound getting routed to your center and rear speakers was your amplifiers doing, not the laptop....