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post #21 of 55
5/12/06 at 4:08pm
Ouch that hurt!!
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post #22 of 55
5/16/06 at 1:29am
However, with the 710m, it is an inspiron and there are a ton of coupons that can slice it down incredibly. This is an XPS and you don't see much price-slicing for those.

In all honesty, $1500 for this would be a bargain.
If these specs are correct, it will definitely not be < ~$1000.

I haven't read anywhere that said it would release at the end of May, only that it was mid-May. I take as a rule-of-thumb that rumours after the initial pics/specs rumour-showcase should not be believed. Unless, of course, it is the same individuals who did so.

I really think it's going to come out this week though.

Cheers!
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post #23 of 55
5/16/06 at 5:53am
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I have a quick question. When I'm using torrents, my current system speed (see spec below) goes to all hell. Nasty, hard drive caching doing anything. I know torrenting plays havoc with your computer, so does having a dual core processor help with this?

Thanks!

*want...M1201....now*
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post #24 of 55
5/16/06 at 9:59am
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Originally Posted by WilliamG
I have a quick question. When I'm using torrents, my current system speed (see spec below) goes to all hell. Nasty, hard drive caching doing anything. I know torrenting plays havoc with your computer, so does having a dual core processor help with this?

Thanks!

*want...M1201....now*
Unless you have a hundred megabit internet connection, I don't see why torrenting would be playing havok with your computer.... slowing down internet browsing: sure....
Causing problems other than that? only if you're using bad torrent software.... use utorrent or azureus
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post #25 of 55
5/16/06 at 1:12pm
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Originally Posted by DarthPierce
Unless you have a hundred megabit internet connection, I don't see why torrenting would be playing havok with your computer.... slowing down internet browsing: sure....
Causing problems other than that? only if you're using bad torrent software.... use utorrent or azureus

People always give the same response: "I don't have any problems."

I'm using Azureus, and every computer I ever torrent on, the speed of the system goes to crap. It's because the hard drive is being utilised so much that it thrashes about loading anything else.
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post #26 of 55
5/16/06 at 2:10pm
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Originally Posted by WilliamG
People always give the same response: "I don't have any problems."

I'm using Azureus, and every computer I ever torrent on, the speed of the system goes to crap. It's because the hard drive is being utilised so much that it thrashes about loading anything else.

Eh, easy fix usually. Limit your connections in Azureus especially if you have a slower connection. As well, never ever use your max upload speed unless you don't plan on doing anything else using the internet or even your system. If you let in 500 connections and are using your max upload speed its gonna take a lot of power to keep it active (and sometimes hurt your download speed).
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post #27 of 55
5/16/06 at 5:13pm
Ok, this might be a dumb question, but I dont know,and thought I'd ask.

AS mentioned, the 1210 has 2 headphone ports on the front.

Can you have different sounds going to the 2 different ports?

IE, I'm on a plane with my fiance. I fire up winamp so she can listen to music(and fall asleep) meanwhile, I'm playing startcraft or something, and hear my own sounds?

I'm doubtful, but thought I'd ask and see if anyone that has a laptop with twin headphones ports can comment.

BTW, I'm very excited about this laptop, can't wait to see it.
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post #28 of 55
5/16/06 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by flash0222
Ok, this might be a dumb question, but I dont know,and thought I'd ask.

AS mentioned, the 1210 has 2 headphone ports on the front.

Can you have different sounds going to the 2 different ports?

IE, I'm on a plane with my fiance. I fire up winamp so she can listen to music(and fall asleep) meanwhile, I'm playing startcraft or something, and hear my own sounds?

I'm doubtful, but thought I'd ask and see if anyone that has a laptop with twin headphones ports can comment.

BTW, I'm very excited about this laptop, can't wait to see it.


highly doubful. The only way I've seen people do that is with a splitter sharing one jack with two ear buds with two programs that allow for you to adjust balance. You set one to the extreme left and wear two left ear buds and set the other one to the extreme right and wear two right ear buds. Ghetto, but it works.
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post #29 of 55
5/17/06 at 3:38pm
Meh...its just a laptop. If I do get one it will be mid 2K7 or later. I want to see to read its reviews, eg. battery life, wifi performance, etc, and see how it runs Vista and the bugs get worked out. My 700m is fine
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post #30 of 55
5/17/06 at 3:45pm
In my experience, torrents use up alot of resources when it initializes the download, since it seems to copy the expected image size before the actual file is downloading. If while downloading the file, it still is using up alot of resources, that could be a good or bad sign: good sign - you are d/ling file at fast speed from alot of sources, bad sign - alot of ppl are d/ling the file from you

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Originally Posted by WilliamG
People always give the same response: "I don't have any problems."

I'm using Azureus, and every computer I ever torrent on, the speed of the system goes to crap. It's because the hard drive is being utilised so much that it thrashes about loading anything else.
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post #31 of 55
5/17/06 at 4:01pm
if this thing doesn't come out soon i will start considering the macbook.
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post #32 of 55
5/17/06 at 5:04pm
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Originally Posted by godanigo
if this thing doesn't come out soon i will start considering the macbook.
I was thinking the EXACT same thing as you...until I saw the MB's lack of a dedicated graphics card option.
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post #33 of 55
5/17/06 at 6:37pm
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Originally Posted by ccailao
I was thinking the EXACT same thing as you...until I saw the MB's lack of a dedicated graphics card option.

And no expresscard/pcmcia output or media card reader or silly mini-video output. An Asus w7j would be much better!
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post #34 of 55
5/18/06 at 12:50pm
ASUS w7j! An expensive low quality laptop. Your X1000 should be a lot more reliable than ASUS laptop, believe me! I have an X1000 I know how good it is.
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post #35 of 55
5/18/06 at 3:56pm
What I can't believe is, according to the leaked specs, there's no DVI port. For shame!!!! WE NEED DVI!!!!
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post #36 of 55
5/19/06 at 1:45pm
ya seriously... they should just put a dvi port in place of the vga port. you could always use a dvi->vga adapter. but not the other way around....

stupid dell.
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post #37 of 55
5/19/06 at 1:46pm
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Originally Posted by OzoneJunkie
What I can't believe is, according to the leaked specs, there's no DVI port. For shame!!!! WE NEED DVI!!!!

the E1505/6400 doesn't have a DVI port either! and i've become more and more accepting of the idea that it's really not as necessary as it seems.
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post #38 of 55
5/19/06 at 2:27pm
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Originally Posted by korosu
the E1505/6400 doesn't have a DVI port either! and i've become more and more accepting of the idea that it's really not as necessary as it seems.

I plugged my 700m into my Sony 23" LCD via VGA and looked absolutely terrible. Unusable to me, compared to my desktop driving it via DVI...
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post #39 of 55
5/19/06 at 4:22pm
That actually could be easily remidied via Powerstrip and do some tweaking with the freqency of the display. Same thing happens on my 27 inch LCD. It almost looks like your running a non native res but you adjust the freqency a notch or 2 and it clears right up.
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post #40 of 55
5/19/06 at 4:23pm
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Originally Posted by OzoneJunkie
I plugged my 700m into my Sony 23" LCD via VGA and looked absolutely terrible. Unusable to me, compared to my desktop driving it via DVI...

i believe that's the stigma of the intel integrated 855 graphics more than anything.
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