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post #261 of 328
9/16/06 at 7:38pm
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Originally Posted by Bryan'sM505x
HH I might have to order a m9700 lol. I was playing afew rounds of bf2 last night and all my settings were low with a few settings on med. 1074 x 768 lol

I can probably bump it up abit higher but I'm playing wirelessly with my 8510gz x700 128 so i wanted it to be as lag free as possible...

IF anything I might bump up the m5550 video card to the nvidia go 6600 or 7600. If u can get over 2.5 hrs on the m9700 I will be more than happy! Do u thing the single nvidia 7900 can achieve this with basic web browsing?

I think Kazkek said his single card setup did get to 2.5 hours on battery just browsing. It's in his review I believe... I ran mine on battery with both cards going, browsing the web on wireless and after an hour and a half it showed 40% battery left, but I don't tend to rely on battery meters in laptops...

I'll be testing it this weekend for my review, but it's taking longer than I'd hoped to get the information together...

I've got BF2 loaded now, and played a little the other day and it smoked my desktop. I'll try it on a single card and see how it does at 1920 x 1200...

Scaling the monitor down for games isn't bad at all really, but for text it take s a little getting used to. I just leave it at 1920 x 1200 now and the text is small on most websites but it's easily readable.
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post #262 of 328
9/16/06 at 9:32pm
Phase 10 Baby!!!!!!!!!!!
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post #263 of 328
9/16/06 at 9:46pm
Im right with you tate
worst thing is, my system was in phase ten and now its the weekend
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post #264 of 328
9/16/06 at 9:51pm
I dont think tate thought of that.

Same happened to me and I had to wait for monday. It was a saddest happy day ever.
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post #265 of 328
9/16/06 at 10:00pm
Thats ok guys, the lady said it would ship probably next Thursday so since its ready now, it shoud get to my house by Wednesday








Hey guy, do you know for the wireless if the antenna is in the screen or in the keyboard cause my old Sager 5720 had it in the keyboard
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post #266 of 328
9/16/06 at 10:02pm
Yeah this is the longest weekend of my life
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post #267 of 328
9/16/06 at 10:36pm
2 questions about my new m9700,

Are there suppose to be 2 very tiny holes near the screen hinge and multimedia buttons (also near the logo)

Are the speakers suppose to sound tinny and rattle like at near full volume?
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post #268 of 328
9/16/06 at 11:04pm
Maybe its your subwoofer doing the rattle. Another guy posted about that somewhere else. For only 2 speakers in it, it probably won't give out the greatest sound. My old 7700 had 5 speakers and it was sweet but it was a brick
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post #269 of 328
9/17/06 at 1:43am
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You can adjust the speakers through the equalizer in the sound settings. It helps, but the speakers could be better. They're the best I've heard on a laptop but they're not great... I've never heard a 7700. My old 5500 has good sound but doesn't get near as loud. Headphones sound great btw...

I've found it sounds fine in games, but mp3 playback can overload the speakers. Tweaking the equalizer helps a lot.

There is also an equalizer in windows media player. Right click on the upper border, click view, then click view enhancements. A new box will open in WMP, and you can cycle through several different features including an equalizer. There are several presets and they help mp3's a lot. I have mine set on rock preset.
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post #270 of 328
9/17/06 at 9:42am
Maybe Hammerhead knows, hey do you what kind of gadget I would need to hook up to my vcr from the laptop to capture video? There are a few tapes I would like to put on my laptop and maybe later convert to dvd before they get to worn out
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post #271 of 328
9/17/06 at 10:23am
I found this, what do you guys think?
http://meritline.stores.yahoo.net/pr...converter.html
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post #272 of 328
9/17/06 at 10:49am
No matter how hard you try too fix it the speakers will always sound like shit.

At full blast if the system isnt on a flat surface too send out vibrations you'll hear the plastic rattle. Its annyoing and sucks but what can you do?

Probablly the best speakers I ever heard on a laptop goes too HP and there nice large frontal area.
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post #273 of 328
9/17/06 at 11:03am
Yeah i agree HP laptops that i've used have some really nice speakers
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post #274 of 328
9/17/06 at 4:20pm
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Originally Posted by Bryan'sM505x
HH I might have to order a m9700 lol. I was playing afew rounds of bf2 last night and all my settings were low with a few settings on med. 1074 x 768 lol

I can probably bump it up abit higher but I'm playing wirelessly with my 8510gz x700 128 so i wanted it to be as lag free as possible...

IF anything I might bump up the m5550 video card to the nvidia go 6600 or 7600. If u can get over 2.5 hrs on the m9700 I will be more than happy! Do u thing the single nvidia 7900 can achieve this with basic web browsing?

Just got done playing BF2 for a couple hours with only the single card enabled. 1600 x 1200 with all high settings except for AA, and it played flawlessly.

I think the single card solution is a good option for those trying to save money.

Plays CSS, and BF2 at high res, high settings perfectly. I'll try F.E.A.R. next.
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post #275 of 328
9/17/06 at 4:22pm
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Originally Posted by tate
Maybe Hammerhead knows, hey do you what kind of gadget I would need to hook up to my vcr from the laptop to capture video? There are a few tapes I would like to put on my laptop and maybe later convert to dvd before they get to worn out

You should just be able to put the output of the vcr directly into the coaxial connector on the m9700 and record.
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post #276 of 328
9/17/06 at 4:23pm
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Originally Posted by tate
I found this, what do you guys think?
http://meritline.stores.yahoo.net/pr...converter.html

That will bypass the tv tuner won't it? You shouldn't need anything like that, the tv tuner does that for you. Not sure what file type the recordings are in though... I don't have the adapter yet.
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post #277 of 328
9/17/06 at 4:39pm
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Originally Posted by Rei86
No matter how hard you try too fix it the speakers will always sound like shit.

At full blast if the system isnt on a flat surface too send out vibrations you'll hear the plastic rattle. Its annyoing and sucks but what can you do?

Probablly the best speakers I ever heard on a laptop goes too HP and there nice large frontal area.

I got them sounding alright, but if you turn them up full they will rattle...

I was disappointed in the sound, especially since all the reviews say it's got above average sound for a laptop. That still may be true but I was hoping for a little more depth in the bass department.

They sound fine in games and movies for me, it's the mp3's that sound like you're listening to a clock radio...
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post #278 of 328
9/17/06 at 6:30pm
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Originally Posted by Hammerhead
...They sound fine in games and movies for me, it's the mp3's that sound like you're listening to a clock radio...

Even after EQ settings were modified?
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post #279 of 328
9/18/06 at 12:17am
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Originally Posted by camelbackcinema
2 questions about my new m9700,

Are there suppose to be 2 very tiny holes near the screen hinge and multimedia buttons (also near the logo)

I could be wrong, but I think one of the holes is a built-in microphone. I was testing the webcam ability in AIM the other day with my old laptop only a few feet away and I could hear my voice being transmitted. It seemed to get louder the closer I put my mouth to those holes, so I'm almost kinda pretty sure...
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post #280 of 328
9/18/06 at 12:54am
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Originally Posted by Hammerhead
I got them sounding alright, but if you turn them up full they will rattle...

I was disappointed in the sound, especially since all the reviews say it's got above average sound for a laptop. That still may be true but I was hoping for a little more depth in the bass department.

They sound fine in games and movies for me, it's the mp3's that sound like you're listening to a clock radio...

Eh? Cant really listen too anything on high with my system. even tho our systems are pretty same(besides for the fact that you have SLi you bastard!) i'm sure the speakers are the same too.

I really would like too know why alien even put that junk ass computer beep crap speaker on these things. If it wasnt for that it would just be awesome. And FYI when i'm playing MP3 it doesnt soudn that bad all. Its that ****ing subwoofer that buzz's and rattles the plastic on the system. I really hope someone finds away too disable that junk.
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