19300 replacement - Studio 1737. questions

1) Well, in all honesty, the ati 3650 is pretty even with the 6800 go even though its 128 vs 256 b. Most people on the forums complain about getting shafted with losing the 7900 gs in the older inspirons which in fact is better than several of the new gpus. I mean, just blizzard will make starcraft more than playable regardless of your graphics card, if you really want to argue, i would go with the 128 v 256, and the brand, ati vs nvidia. Honestly, its going to be a lot of hassle and probably wont be worth it for you.

2) As far as I know, all the new bluetooth modules are the 355 version. If they are backwards compatible I don't know, but if you want to research the 355 to see if your old one looks similar so it can fit, you can give it a try. (USB Bluetooth module could be an option if you want to buy something new).

3) well, 250 gb is the size they claim, but all hard drives give you less space. So you are losing a bit of space per gig. Thus, at 250 gb its quite a bit of space. also, the recovery partition is shared on that drive, so that cuts into your main partition. On top of that, dell loads a lot of bloatware with an already large sized operating system. so that is where all your space went.

4) great processor, compared to your pentium M (if i remember correctly) it is much better and a dual core. If you weigh this gain against the graphics card, it is a pretty reasonable replacement.

5) speed of the memory should be either found in the BIOS (F2 and startup) or device manager. (i think)

Good luck. I would be happy with the machine. But, if you had the next gen e1705 with a 7900 gs and got the studio 1737, i would be upset. be happy though, your warranty probably paid itself off with this replacement.

oh and most people have had luck (including myself) with complaining about the loss of a digital port (DVI). . .

dell has been having some trouble as of late with the economy and what not (ACER is surpassing them as #2!!!). so they might not do anything if you argue. or who knows they may want to keep a customer loyal, and help you out

The Studio laptop uses a PCie slot for the bluetooth, I do not beliee the 350 is compatible.

Benchmarks wise the cards look like this

6800 3dmark06 1900

HD 3650 3dmark06 3600


So it appears you do have a much faster systen with your new laptop.

Also I believe you can add a secind hard drive to your new laptop