Hey guys.
Well, I have found a pretty good deal on a 259IA from Digitalstar (Australian reseller) that is pretty hard to pass up (15.4 WXGA, 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 256 MR9700, 60@7200) seeing as after on-selling my Inspiron 8600 & Port replicator to a friend (15.4 WSXGA+, 1.7GHz, 1GB RAM, 128 MR9600PT, 60@7200) it will cost me next to nothing.
However, my major concern is about the LCD display, I love my WSXGA+ and this model only comes with the WXGA. Fine, I can put up with that if I have to, but I am wondering if any of you peeps out there know if they might be easily swappable? I mean, I know that obviously the bezel and all that are incompatible, but if it is stripped down to the LCD and mounted in the other bezel will it fit? I am fairly knowledgeable about Dell notebooks as many would know but have had very limited experience with barebones systems such as this.
Only other concern is the supposedly lower clocked varient of the MR9700 this uses, but as long as this at least matches up to my existing 9600 Pro Turbo card then I don't care... I am mainly after this new laptop and ditching the corporation because of pure size, aesthetics and speed (with faster CPU, more RAM).
Cheers,
Stu
Well, I have found a pretty good deal on a 259IA from Digitalstar (Australian reseller) that is pretty hard to pass up (15.4 WXGA, 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 256 MR9700, 60@7200) seeing as after on-selling my Inspiron 8600 & Port replicator to a friend (15.4 WSXGA+, 1.7GHz, 1GB RAM, 128 MR9600PT, 60@7200) it will cost me next to nothing.
However, my major concern is about the LCD display, I love my WSXGA+ and this model only comes with the WXGA. Fine, I can put up with that if I have to, but I am wondering if any of you peeps out there know if they might be easily swappable? I mean, I know that obviously the bezel and all that are incompatible, but if it is stripped down to the LCD and mounted in the other bezel will it fit? I am fairly knowledgeable about Dell notebooks as many would know but have had very limited experience with barebones systems such as this.
Only other concern is the supposedly lower clocked varient of the MR9700 this uses, but as long as this at least matches up to my existing 9600 Pro Turbo card then I don't care... I am mainly after this new laptop and ditching the corporation because of pure size, aesthetics and speed (with faster CPU, more RAM).
Cheers,
Stu
