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post #1 of 6
4/21/06 at 12:39pm
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After much debate between the I9400 and the D820, I went with the D820 - even though I'm still bothered by its lack of "modern" ports like DVI and SVIDEO (and that it can't play music without booting up windows), its sturdy built and travel friendly dimensions won me over.

I ordered it two nights ago so I think there is still time to change some of the hardware - any suggestions?

Order Detail

Qty Part # Description
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1 222-1261 Latitude D820, Intel Core Duo T2300, 1.67GHz, 667Mhz, 2M L2 Cache, Dual Core
1 320-4611 15.4 inch Wide Screen WUXGA LCD for Latitude D820
1 311-5686 1.0GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM, 1 DIMM for Dell Latitude Notebooks
1 310-7270 Internal English Keyboard for Latitude Notebooks
1 320-4612 256MB NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M TurboCache, Latitude D820
1 341-2977 60GB Hard Drive 9.5MM, 5400RPMfor Dell Latitude DX20
1 310-7418 Standard Touchpad for LatitudeD820
1 340-8854 No Floppy Drive for Latitude D-Family Notebooks
1 465-2039 Windows XP Professional, SP2 with media, for Latitude English, Factory Installed
1 310-7284 90W AC Adapter for Latitude D-Family
1 313-3881 24X CDRW/DVD with Cyberlink Power DVD, for Latitude D-Family
1 430-1481 Intel 3945 WLAN (802.11a/g) mini Card Latitude, Factory Install
1 313-3935 Resource CD w/ Diagnostics andDrivers for Latitude D820 Note
1 312-0389 6-Cell/56 WHr Primary Battery Latitude D820
1 410-0810 McAfee Security 7.0, English 90 Day Trial,Dell OptiPlex Precision and Latitude

I was thinking to downgrade to the WSXGA LCD (1680 X 1050) from the WUXGA LCD (1920 x 1200 pixels) - won't the icons in the WUXGA be too small anyway? Anybody familiar with both?

I could then put the saving towards upgrading to the T2400 (1.86GHz) Core Duo Processor (from the current 1.67GHz setup) - would there be a noticable difference in speed?

(As far as the graphics card and RAM, I would upgrade those specs at a later time).

I appreciate any recommendations.
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post #2 of 6
4/22/06 at 11:25am
WUXGA is an overkill. Ive seen all 3 screen types on the 6000 and the WSXGA is the way to go.

Everything is way too small on the WUXGA - IMHO


Lou
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post #3 of 6
4/22/06 at 11:59am
Why not upgrade to a 9-cell battery?
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post #4 of 6
4/22/06 at 2:11pm
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Originally Posted by LouPoir
WUXGA is an overkill. Ive seen all 3 screen types on the 6000 and the WSXGA is the way to go.

Everything is way too small on the WUXGA - IMHO


Lou
I love having the 1920*1200 res, you can fit so much on the screen
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post #5 of 6
4/22/06 at 6:54pm
I have the WUXGA on a i6000d. And yes, it is beautiful and all BUT... everything is WAY to small. It cause hassles, and all the font rigging you can do to increase the size of text still presents problems. If I could, I'd take the WSXGA. my 2 cents.
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post #6 of 6
4/24/06 at 12:55am
You can increase the size of the fonts to compensate for the small pixels in WUXGA. Honestly though, out of all the displays I've seen the WUXGA does the best job at displaying at it's non-native res than anything other I've seen. I think it's basically beause of the size of the pixels, they're so small that even running it at WXGA(1280x800) doesn't look bad at all. I know this because my dad has WUXGA on his I6000 and he runs it at 1280x800 and it actually looks pretty good. I mean it's not as sharp as running it native, but it still looks pretty darn good for not being native.

Other than that I think the WSXGA screen is the best for most people. I know I love my WSXGA screen and I don't think that WUXGA would be worth it for me IMO.

As far as a speed difference from the 1.67 to the 1.83, there won't be a big difference, but it will be noticable. It does a few seconds faster in SuperPi to 2mil and it will do certain tasks faster. But, as I remind anyone that thinks about getting the faster Duo's, ask yourself if you're going to upgrade to Merom when it comes out. If you're going to want to upgrade to 64bit and a much faster/more effecient mobile cpu then save your money and put it aside for Merom. It is shaping up to be a pretty amazing little cpu and well worth it to upgrade from Yonah(33% faster clock to clock). That's why I didn't bother to upgrade because I'll probably just get a 1.83 or 2.0Ghz Merom and be amazed at the difference.

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