Posts by sakor1

Nice work, that's a good price! Agreed above though. The cost of upgrading to the best available in the i5100 (which I think was FX5200 or Radeon 9000go from distant memory...) would certainly not be worth it in todays terms. For $85...

First of all, it could be as simple as the LCD display cable coming unseated/ dying. That it works with external monitor tells me that the graphics card is fine. So what you need to do, is unplug and re-seat the display cable and check...

Not good, motherboard may be toast... you are best to send it in to Dell for diagnostic and repairs. Stu

Don't know... they have indicated the intention to remove the XPS as a separate product line, and will be continuing with the Studio line for home computers (however, there may be some premium models in that range marked as XPS... the...

Ok, well then that setup should be perfect. Enough speed and storage for what you are doing. If you don't already have it though, you might want to pick up the MS Office suite with it (Word, excel, etc). Stu

That depends... you haven't told us what you are using it for, etc. If you bought it for gaming for example, it is a poor choice with the integrated video card. If you bought it for large photo editing, etc it could use some more ram,...

Quote: Originally Posted by Patso Hey by the way how did you find this upgrade? Good performance difference? I'm just about to do the same, replacing my T7500 in my XPS M1530 for a T9500 or T9600 and can't seem to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kaaji1359 Really? I bought the XPS M1530 as a gaming laptop also (also for school, why I chose the 1530 over the 1730). It has a T9300 2.5GHz processor, 256 MB nVidia Geforce 8600M GT card,...

To be honest, you wouldn't want to even if you could. The cooling system is not up to handling the increased heat generated by a decent overclock. In fact, this is one of the primary reasons that laptop manufacturers lock the CPU from...

You are probably better off getting a new laptop considering you are wanting to replace most of it! Hold off for a little bit and we should see what new releases dell has for the new Intel processor line just released. Then you should be...