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post #21 of 29
11/7/04 at 4:23am
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Originally Posted by Dead Duck
Great review, but now you're throwing doubts as to which one I should get. Should I stick with the P4's or go with the P4-M's? Argh!

I'm torn between how important battery life is. I figure I can always get extra batteries, but it's inconvenient to swap them out when I'm in the middle of doing something. Then again, the P4-Ms are a little more expensive.

Decisions decisions.

You're joking right?

The Pentium-M is the choice to get. No question about it.
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post #22 of 29
11/26/04 at 2:18pm
I just got my i8600 last Monday and mine didn't come with the little Scroll Stick. I've got a regular keyboard with no stick. Not that I mind because I hate those things anyway. Did anyone else get a new 8600 without the scroll stick?
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post #23 of 29
11/26/04 at 3:52pm
The 8600 no longer has a trackstick... it was out when the 8600c rolled in around March.
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post #24 of 29
11/27/04 at 3:27pm
Satisfaction level for the 8600 so far? I was suppoed to buy one earlier this year...but never got around to it

Now dell.ca is selling a Centrino 1.8/512MB/80G/15.4"/CDRW-DVD for $2000 cdn. The 5160 is much cheaper and tempting but it looks like crap compared to the 8600.
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post #25 of 29
11/29/04 at 1:28am
Can someone give me their FPS on any HAlflife mods i perfer Natural selection or DoD please. with the rad 9600 card. i can get 100 but sometimes (like during combate) it drops to 70 Btw i got the Cent 1.6g and 512 ram.
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post #26 of 29
11/29/04 at 9:47pm
Centrino is not a cpu. Its really just a sticker on your laptop thats show its using a Pentium M cpu with Intel's wireless chipset. I would just get a laptop with Pentium M cpu, then add a Dell wireless adapter to it, which I heard is better than Intel's wireless card.
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post #27 of 29
12/3/04 at 8:23pm
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Just got my Dell 9200. You can check out my review in the Dell 9200 forum.

http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=52940
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post #28 of 29
12/5/04 at 3:10am
Keyboard.. Man, I would give it a "C" because the thing feels so resistent when you type on it. It is hard to explain. It doesnt feel solid. The material for the keys that is. It is especially evident if you have a bit of nail. The fingers just slip all over the place because the surface is so damn smooth. They really screwed up with the material used for the keyboard. I tried one of their earlier models and it feels a lot better.

As for the CONTROL key, I dont know how anyone can access that key all the way bottom and the keyboard is so flat. So I made the caps key into a CTRL key as well. Lot easier to reach. You can download this free utility here to do the remap the key.

http://www.sysinternals.com/win9x/ut...rl2cap95.shtml
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post #29 of 29
12/5/04 at 3:27am
On second thought.... download an alternative. The LINK I gave for the site systeminternals.com is a pretty complicated program and you might be better off downloading a simplier one. Just do a google search.
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