Well, a while ago, under 1 year, I bought a dell inspiron 8200. After wating for what seemed like ages, it arrived. This was back when Geforce 440 Go 64MB was the big thing, and the graphics card in there. Obviously, I was interested in using it as a gaming laptop. Boy, was I disappointed. The first (and major) problem was the fact that the touchpad was awful. I was confined to only the pointing stick, which I did like, but didn't love. The second, and the reason I took it back, was because of the way it was wired. The I8200 is wired in a way where you cannot move the mouse and press keyboard buttons at the same time. When you press a button on the keyboard, there is a short delay between the time you press the button, and the time you can move the mouse again, effectively making 3d gaming impossible. This was disheartening to me, and I quickly returned the machine, after talking to tech support people who didn't know what they were talking about. My experience with dell was bad. Yours may be too. I've had good experiences with Sager and Apple. IBM is also generally a good experience. Stay away from others though. It's not worth getting a bad machine.
By the way, I'm a major linux user. I'm not very fond of windows. The problem persisted, on the dell, in any OS, with any driver. It was a problem with the bios.
-Gumpan
By the way, I'm a major linux user. I'm not very fond of windows. The problem persisted, on the dell, in any OS, with any driver. It was a problem with the bios.
-Gumpan
