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I purchased a 12 cell battery a few months ago. I was hoping for better battery perfomance but I am still only good for about 2.5 hours on a full charge. I will say that the 12 cell battery raises up the keyboard to a comfortable...
Hi all, I've had a dv6174cl since Oct06. Mostly this thing is awsome. I use it as my portable Windows lab to run about 4 w2K3 servers at the same time. The only drawback is the DVD drive. On ocassion, either A) won't open the...
Checked out a thread at nbr and a lot of people are having the same issue. Apparantly it is "common with Core 2 Duo" procs.... There was a suggestion to try the the following: RMClock program @...
No CD. I'll swing by Costco to see if I can hear anything from that computer. After using it laptop for most of the day, the sound has either diminished or I am used to it now. At any rate, it will be interesting to see if I can...
Hi, I just purchased a DV6174cl from Costco. It is a beautiful laptop and I am just getting aquainted with it. While all is good so far, I have noticed that for the first few minutes of use, the HD (or I think the HD) emits a high...
Quote: Originally Posted by Divine_Madcat Dont base the support off the brand, but rather the chipset. Any modern intel or AMD chipset can support 4GB of ram, regardless of the brand. The problem is, getting a 2GB...
I didn't know that dell had nb's that could go upto 4GB. Depending on what you do, having 4GB is not unreasonable. I am currently looking at laptops that will give me that flexibility so I can run a number of virtual servers in a test...
DianeW, It is important to know which CAD program your husband is using. While things have changed, let me give you some direction on CAD. I used to do application support for AutoCAD but I've also dabbled in early versions of...
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