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post #1 of 24
9/26/06 at 2:43pm
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Here are some pics of my Dell Latitude D820.

On the desk is also a JVC design stereo and JAMO speakers and a subwoofer beneath the desk

Here are the pics!
Let the comment come








I jused to have a powerbook G4 1.67 ghz and a pentuim D workstation but then I bought this latitude and now it's my only computer.
Ind the near future I want to change it with a 17inch XPS
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post #2 of 24
9/26/06 at 11:41pm
Great laptop, great pics & the Samsung SyncMAster 710N looks awesome (white is very white!). Enjoy your new D820.
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post #3 of 24
9/27/06 at 12:44pm
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Well I have the d820 from april this year.

I can find two negative points of this notebook:

- I have already a 15% wear level of my battery
- The screen is't that good...
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post #4 of 24
9/29/06 at 3:58pm
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Originally Posted by latitudeD820
Well I have the d820 from april this year.

I can find two negative points of this notebook:

- I have already a 15% wear level of my battery
- The screen is't that good...

Woah! I just checked the wear level of my two month old D620 and its at 6%. Thats nuts my old sony vaio only had a 8% wear after 2 years!

What is Dell's Warranty on Batteries?
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post #5 of 24
9/29/06 at 7:35pm
Nice!
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post #6 of 24
10/1/06 at 11:50am
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wear level now:17% :s
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post #7 of 24
10/1/06 at 5:57pm
nice setup! howz the D820? Any problems and/or things great about it? Had the D620 and returned it right away the screen totally sucked and got the XPS M1210 which I'm using to write this message now and I love it.
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post #8 of 24
10/2/06 at 5:43pm
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The screen isn't so good.
The screens of apple notebooks are much better!
Wear-level nog: 21% after i used the full capacity of the battery...
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post #9 of 24
10/8/06 at 12:06am
Wow that keyboard is interesting.... European? I've never actually looked at a foreign keyboard, it has been only american QWERTY for me! (Except the time when I rearranged the letters of a qwerty 'board to be dvorak... but that's practically the same thing).

Oh and even more interesting, that is AZERTY, very cool. Mind taking a photo of the keyboard, as clear and high-res as you can get?
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post #10 of 24
10/8/06 at 10:19am
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Here you're!

It's an European AZERTY keyboard.

I live in Belgium
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post #11 of 24
10/8/06 at 12:41pm
Yeah it's definitely different enough that, having already known QWERTY, I don't think I would be able to get used to it. I like that they replaced the semicolon with a letter, I never understood why there is a semicolon on the home row. Of course, the QWERTY design was made to actually slow down typists on the typewriters anyway, so I guess it makes sense for that purpose.

What is the "Alt Gr"? Is that how you type things like the Euro sign below the E and the symbols below the numbers?
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post #12 of 24
10/8/06 at 3:10pm
i have the D810

excellent machines
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post #13 of 24
10/10/06 at 12:50am
nice loving it man ..
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post #14 of 24
10/10/06 at 12:51am
how muich did it all cost you
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post #15 of 24
10/10/06 at 1:19am
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Originally Posted by latitudeD820
The screen isn't so good.
The screens of apple notebooks are much better!
Wear-level nog: 21% after i used the full capacity of the battery...

I think you just got a dud battery friend. NHC says my Battery is only at 2% wear and I bought my D820 on August 22nd.
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post #16 of 24
10/10/06 at 2:19pm
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I think I will buy a complete new battery in a couple of months.

But i'm going to try this:

Use the battery ultil the notebook shuts down.
Don't use the battery for a couple of days
Put the battery in the freezer for 60 minutes.
Charge it.

I once did it and my wear level dropped from 18% to 15%
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post #17 of 24
10/10/06 at 7:50pm
I did a search on Wikipedia, not sure why I didn't just do that before, and learned about the Alt Gr key. For anyone else wondering, it can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_Gr
But now I wonder, do users of the keyboard hold the Alt Gr key and press the second key as if they were pressing shift-[letter], while touch typing, or do they lift their hands from the keyboard to hold Alt Gr with one hand and peck at the other key? And same thing with Alt Gr+Shift, that seems like it would be pretty hard.

Furthermore, what happens to the Right Alt then? It's just gone? Because computers distinguish between right alt and left alt, and some programs have different functions for them. For instance in MS Virtual PC 2004, a PC emulator program (run a pc inside a pc), you press right alt to take your mouse out of the virtual pc and back into your actual pc. I guess you would just have to remap that key then, or is there something like Alt Gr+Alt = Right Alt?
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post #18 of 24
10/10/06 at 7:55pm
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Originally Posted by latitudeD820
I think I will buy a complete new battery in a couple of months.[...]
Has your warranty run out? Cause I'm pretty sure that would be covered under the default 1-year warranty (it's a defect), and would definitely be covered by all upgraded warranties.

If your warranty isn't out then just call up Dell, they'll ship you a battery and you install the new one and then send them back the old one - no "battery downtime"
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post #19 of 24
10/17/06 at 4:59am
sorry wrong post.

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post #20 of 24
10/17/06 at 6:16am
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