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post #21 of 37
10/2/04 at 4:41am
Dell LCD is not inferior screen. Light leakage and dead pixels maybe just the screen's defects. But the quality of a normal screen is unbelievable. My uncle thought i have to pay extra money to get this kinda screen (bright and sharp). Look at my friend's toshiba, i see the diff
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post #22 of 37
10/2/04 at 4:26pm
I talked to Dell again today, and they're just going to send me an entire new system, and give me 10 days to return the old one. That's a much better solution for me. I'm actually quite pleased with Dell's customer service.
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post #23 of 37
10/2/04 at 7:42pm
That would be the easiest way. Do you plan to swap the HDDs so that you don't have to reinstall everything?
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post #24 of 37
10/5/04 at 8:23pm
Would they be able to tell if I did that?
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post #25 of 37
10/5/04 at 8:27pm
Only if they looked at the S/N. Actually I don't know why they'd care if you did do that. They'd be getting a non used hard drive back.
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post #26 of 37
10/5/04 at 8:37pm
Yeah, I don't think they would mind. I have heard that some people were told by Dell that they should remove their HDD so that they didn't send any personal information. I'd just do it.
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post #27 of 37
10/11/04 at 8:41pm
Erg, so I got the new laptop today. Same light leakage. Same dim spot. Slightly less ghosting, though.

I'm really annoyed with Dell. I don't want to deal with waiting for another one and sending this one back. I just want to have a quality LCD.

Anybody have any suggestions?
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post #28 of 37
10/11/04 at 9:51pm
how do you determine if there is light leakage?
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post #29 of 37
10/11/04 at 10:07pm
When the LCD is on but with a black screen (like when watching a DVD) there's a lot of light coming up from the bottom of the screen. There's also some ghost streaking in the area where light is coming up.
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post #30 of 37
10/26/04 at 7:03pm
Greetings members and mods of Notebookforums.com
I'm one the noobs that has been lurking for a few days and finally had to register to view a few photos of different screens. lol. I am eagerly awaiting the delivery of my new 8600 with ATI Mobility Radeon 9600PRO Turbo and the 15.4-in WSXGA+ screen. My 1st laptop. Thanks to my lurking here I was able to figure out that the minimun screen wasn't going to do it for me so I called Dell on Friday to have it changed. I was really glad that I was able to do this; however the clock was set back to zero and I have to hurry up and wait some more, arrggg. Any way I was wondering about the "screen leakage" issue. I see that some are having this problem and some are not. I really wanted a great multimedia machine and was wondering if Dell does anything to correct this issue if you have this problem? Also I ordered the machine with the Dell Wireless 1350 (802.11 b/g) Internal Wireless. I hav'nt gone wireless at home yet and was hoping one of the aficionados here could recommend a good router for this wireless card that is installed. (unless I can hook into one of my neighbors for free) heh.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide me.
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post #31 of 37
10/26/04 at 7:40pm
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Originally Posted by Odarby
Greetings members and mods of Notebookforums.com
I'm one the noobs that has been lurking for a few days and finally had to register to view a few photos of different screens. lol. I am eagerly awaiting the delivery of my new 8600 with ATI Mobility Radeon 9600PRO Turbo and the 15.4-in WSXGA+ screen. My 1st laptop. Thanks to my lurking here I was able to figure out that the minimun screen wasn't going to do it for me so I called Dell on Friday to have it changed. I was really glad that I was able to do this; however the clock was set back to zero and I have to hurry up and wait some more, arrggg. Any way I was wondering about the "screen leakage" issue. I see that some are having this problem and some are not. I really wanted a great multimedia machine and was wondering if Dell does anything to correct this issue if you have this problem? Also I ordered the machine with the Dell Wireless 1350 (802.11 b/g) Internal Wireless. I hav'nt gone wireless at home yet and was hoping one of the aficionados here could recommend a good router for this wireless card that is installed. (unless I can hook into one of my neighbors for free) heh.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide me.
I personally would recommend the Linksys WRT54G wireless router. I appreciate the straightfoward interface on this router for encryption and other nessecaries when switching over to wireless. You'll find that the top three recommendations you'll get will be the Netgear b/g the DLink b/g and the Linksys b/g. I personally own 1 dlink 1 netgear and 3 linksys. The linksys has been the most reliable and user friendly so far. Make sure if you go Linksys to NOT get the b/g router with speedboost as this offers nothing to systems not using an optimized linksys brand speedboost pci card. I've noticed some Pre-N routers out already but I wouldn't pay attention to those since almost nothing supports them at current, especially not our notebook wireless cards.


-Myhre
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post #32 of 37
10/27/04 at 3:11am
actually the gs version does more then speed boost it has more ram built in and with the 3rd party firmware that helps out with more features being added later on
i have a gs and i also dealt with dlink and the dlink is a nice paper weight gets really hot though...lol
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post #33 of 37
10/27/04 at 9:39am
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Originally Posted by the nitz
actually the gs version does more then speed boost it has more ram built in and with the 3rd party firmware that helps out with more features being added later on
i have a gs and i also dealt with dlink and the dlink is a nice paper weight gets really hot though...lol

Heh, yeah I really don't like the Dlink at all either. It's a pain to mess with imho.
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post #34 of 37
2/4/05 at 7:58am
I think the C refers to it t's the 3rd model change, first came out with a track stick, 2nd came out with all the ports, the C came out without the track stick and only 1 mini din port in the back of the machine they got rid of the other ports seen on the first 2.
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post #35 of 37
2/4/05 at 12:02pm
lol, i dont know what you are all talking about for dlink, but i have wireless dlink router, currently i am at the east side the the house, and router is at west side, passing through at least 6-10 walls AND router is very close to all the wireless stuff, like cable box, 2 wireless phones...i still get G reception, not B lol and i have tried linksis, where it switched to B and i still could not get signal! i'd say dlink rocks
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post #36 of 37
2/4/05 at 12:30pm
nope its versions only reg and c and i do think its cost reduced they take everything away and for the keyboard its way better(no annoying purple thing)
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post #37 of 37
2/4/05 at 8:19pm
I have three DLinks at different houses, and all work perfectly! I have them all set with the same SSID and WEP so i dont need separate configs when i move around. Connect to one, connected to all! I have two 624+ (b/g) and a 514 (b only), and they are all perfect for their main use of sharing broadband.
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