Posts by tekageek

I've had my 1710 for about 2 years now. The battery just died and Dell wants $155 for a new battery? Battery is so overpriced. I looked on Ebay and saw them for $50, but are the 3rd party batteries just as good?

Quote: Originally Posted by 411sponge Ok that sucks. Could you please be a little more specific as to which programs that you have tried to run in Vista? I am especially upset about the gaming aspect. What games have...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tiburon666 Vista is a memory and resource hog, it doesn't matter which version he's running. Comparing your system to the OP and saying yours flies and thinking something is wrong with his,...

Which version of Vista Ultimate are you running? Beta 2? RC1? RTM version? Have Vista Ultimate build:6001 installed and it flys. No problems on my M1710. Make sure you have 2 gigs of ram. It's definitely a memory hog.