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post #1001 of 1095
9/16/05 at 2:13am
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Just an fyi, I will be selling my laptop around thanksgiving. I know it's early notice, but if there is anyone interested to purchase the ultimate perfected Dell laptop with warrantee still intact, pm me. Ebay will go up a week before thanksgiving, and forum members will get first dibs. I will also repaint the lid either same color or a mirror black, and install brighter led's.
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post #1002 of 1095
9/16/05 at 2:16am
whys you selling it
its so perty
sager coming in?
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post #1003 of 1095
9/16/05 at 2:17am
Thread Starter 
I'm actually going to get an IBM thinkpad t43. I haven't gamed since the spring and I need a more professional laptop for lawschool. A sager is not out of the picture, but I'm very heavily weighed towards a thinkpad because I will not be gaming.
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post #1004 of 1095
9/16/05 at 8:23pm
Hey, Spiike:
Did you ever swap out the surface LEDs on the strip with the power button on it (i.e. WiFi, Bluetooth, scr, #, and Caps locks)? What all would that entail?
I'd just start taking it apart and doing this, but I need the lappy for class every day, so weekends are my only work time.
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post #1005 of 1095
9/21/05 at 12:27am
Please someone-- Newbie here.. I have a 600m, I want to make it look more professional-- by simple modificatons, such as a badge change-- where could I find premade badges or custom ones, what arm, rest can I switch too, bezel, any parts that could be swapped easily to make it remove its cheap outside apperance.

Thanks,
Adam
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post #1006 of 1095
9/21/05 at 2:29am
You can swap everything into a D600 chassis if you like the look of it. Personally I'd just debadge the system and call it a day. My 600m looks so much cleaner without them.
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post #1007 of 1095
9/21/05 at 12:14pm
Got any pictures?
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post #1008 of 1095
9/21/05 at 2:58pm
Isnt america great???!!!!! Only in America will a consumer take a product from a weed whacker to a laptop or a motorcycle, car, you name it and we will chop it, customize it, add our own flair to it and improve its design and/or performance.
I LOVE IT!!
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post #1009 of 1095
9/29/05 at 1:13am
For those that CARE... (since my thread was trashed on the 2nd post :P)
I modded an Intellimouse explorer BT version, to include a switch so that you can turn it off, its very easy and works great.
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=109714
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post #1010 of 1095
10/5/05 at 1:09pm

laptop skins

Is there any online retailer that sells skins for laptops, i mean small skin kind of things that are easy to remove (no paint!). I dont want something that covers the entire back of the LCD, just like a skull or soemthing would be cool.
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post #1011 of 1095
10/30/05 at 8:03pm

Anyone did the inverse D800 chassid mod?

I mean, anybody puts a Inspiron 8500 chassis on a D800/M60 mainboard? I've got an I8500, then I got the D800 chassis and did the mod, then I got a M60 mainboard + 2.1 centrino and swap it. Now I've tried going back to the I8500 chassis to recover the media (play/pause,stop,prev,next) keys but they does not work. I suppose it has something to do with the BIOS, any clue?

Regards,

- german
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post #1012 of 1095
10/31/05 at 8:31pm
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Originally Posted by mich43L
D600's lcd is more stable than i600m's. It's made from magnesum alloy, so they say, while 600m's lcd back cover is kind of funny - plastic shielded by aluminum foil and some padding.
D600's lid is aluminium, only D800/M60's is magnesium. You can tell because magnesium always loses it's shininess over time and looks dirty. Magnesium is quite fragile contrary to what many people thinks, but manufacturers use it because the parts are weight the same, but they are thicker wich helps with structural resistence.

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Originally Posted by mich43L
Is anyone willing to solder on a usb recepticle to the 4 pin holes on 8600's motherboard to see if it'll work? IT'S A RELATIVELY SIMPLE JOB AND I CAN GUIDE YOU THROUGH IT! The cost of the parts is no more than $20 and the benefits are priceless!!
Too bad that the 8600 I have right here is for sell... I can tell you tough that the 8600 doesn't work when connected to a D/Dock.
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post #1013 of 1095
12/7/05 at 7:56pm
For those that want to do the gpu heatsink mod (I did it, my gpu was running at over 110 now its at 70!)

You can order the metal sheets here for cheap.

https://www.onlinemetals.com/merchan...d=12634&step=4

It's a copper sample pack of various thickness but theyw ork just fine.
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post #1014 of 1095
12/10/05 at 11:56am

Dell 700m

How hard is it to upgrade the graphics card on the dell 700m and if I can't will the media accelerator 900 run BF2 on lowest settings with 1gb ram?
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post #1015 of 1095
12/10/05 at 9:53pm
you cant, and you dont have a 915. you have the 855 one which is even worse. 700m=no gaming
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post #1016 of 1095
12/11/05 at 1:33am
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I've heard that my links are really slow. So by monday they should be working nice and fast. I'll figure out how to upload to my university server.
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post #1017 of 1095
12/11/05 at 3:11am
thanks man, ive been wanting to reread some of those but havent been able to. your paintjob is real sexy.
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post #1018 of 1095
12/13/05 at 1:56am
Has anyone modded their i6000d?

If so, what?
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post #1019 of 1095
12/14/05 at 11:28pm
Just thought I'd make a troll post and gloat. I'd been trying to figgure out what model/configuration everything was on my USMA-issued Precision M70. I finally found out.
I have a custom board, with a custom graphics card. How cool is that? I have PCI-E, which I don't believe is on the market in the M70, and an nVidia card with 256 MB of VRAM. I have yet to figgure out exactly what hardware I have, but it is very nice; I've been running every game I can find at full and have yet to see any lag or bad frames.
There is a legitimate reason for this post, though. I'm curious as to whether or not anybody else has seen this kind of stuff on fairly custom/special order laptops. I figgured I'd put this in the modding thread as it's about as "mod" as you can get.
P.S. I'm also replacing all my indicator lights in either red or blue, not sure which. I'm leaning toward red.
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post #1020 of 1095
1/6/06 at 9:46pm
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Originally Posted by Crowd_Control
Just thought I'd make a troll post and gloat. I'd been trying to figgure out what model/configuration everything was on my USMA-issued Precision M70. I finally found out.
I have a custom board, with a custom graphics card. How cool is that? I have PCI-E, which I don't believe is on the market in the M70, and an nVidia card with 256 MB of VRAM. I have yet to figgure out exactly what hardware I have, but it is very nice; I've been running every game I can find at full and have yet to see any lag or bad frames.
There is a legitimate reason for this post, though. I'm curious as to whether or not anybody else has seen this kind of stuff on fairly custom/special order laptops. I figgured I'd put this in the modding thread as it's about as "mod" as you can get.
P.S. I'm also replacing all my indicator lights in either red or blue, not sure which. I'm leaning toward red.

ill be anything its a Nvidia Quadro FX Go1400 Open GL card. Thats the 256mb card offered with them.... just go into your device manage and check.

and the mobo i bet is using the Intel 915PM chipset.

Very nice lappy! Glad ur enjoying it. Pm me some pics, im interested to see how thick they really are
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