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New 700m arrived today!

post #1 of 10
4/28/05 at 1:24am
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Yep, after a wait that I thought would never end, I finally received my Inspiron 700m.

Here's what I can see so far:

80 GB HDD is the Fujitsu MHV2080AH, which is a 5400rpm 8 MB buffer drive. Yay!!!

DVDROM/CDRW is the Philips CDD5263. Philips is made by BenQ, which is a good company. Yay!!!!

First thing I did when I got the notebook out of the box was stuff a 512MB PQI 512MB SODIMM from Newegg into the underneath RAM Slot, for a total of 1GB of memory. It's working well so far, YAY!!!!

I checked the LCD carefully by watching the first 5 minutes of 'Spaceballs', and there is NO light leakage whatsoever!! Not even the tiniest bit! YAY!!!!!!!!!

After all this, I uninstalled a bunch of Dell crap (WordPerfect, Sonic RecordNow, etc.) and replaced it with my own copies of REAL APPLICATIONS (MS Office, Nero, etc.) and the lappy seems content with more grunty apps on the HDD. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those curious about the Dell utility thingie which is supposed to burn your non-included OS CD, it's in the C:\Dell\MEDIAEXE directory. I went ahead copied that entire directory out of the Dell directory onto the desktop (400MB) and compressed it with WinRAR. Then I went ahead and burned off the XP OS CD. As expected, the MEDIAEXE directory in C:\Dell deleted itself. Good thing I have it backup up already....

That's all I have to say for now. More impressions later...
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post #2 of 10
4/28/05 at 1:39am
does your head hurt from all that head banging?
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post #3 of 10
4/28/05 at 1:44am
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Originally Posted by tool
does your head hurt from all that head banging?
LOL
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post #4 of 10
4/28/05 at 8:15am
mine hurts from reading all those YAYS!?!!

Just kidding, good purchase mate, I can't get enough of my 700m either!
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post #5 of 10
4/28/05 at 9:28am
Had mine for almost two weeks now. Very nice. Upgraded the memory out of the box. I wasn't happy about the battery (4 cell). It played one DVD movie to just shy of two hours and had 2% left. That's running the drive constantly though. Anyway, picked up an 8 cell battery (71wHr) on eBay for $78 plus ship. Had a 60gb 5400 rpm hard drive lying about so I took the 40gb 5400 out and put the 60 in with a fresh OS and such. Picked up a Sumdex compact bag too for less than $20. Can't think of anything else to do to it (thankfully). Love it.
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post #6 of 10
4/28/05 at 12:18pm
Im planning to get the 700m as well, I hope you dont mind me asking these questions.

is it wise to get the 8 cell battery instead of the 4 cell? is the weight greatly affected?

is the screen ok? in terms of size, I havent actually seen it but, it says 12-inch wide screen, is it a little bit small or is it good enough?
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post #7 of 10
4/28/05 at 12:26pm
Hell yeah he minds you asking those questions!
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post #8 of 10
4/28/05 at 12:29pm
By the 8 cell batt!!! I am soooo glad I did. I have the 4 cell too just for smaller form factor and when I need to go super light. Screen is better than I thought. My normal lappy is a 15.4" widescreen and this is still usable. MUCH better than I thought it would be but not as good as I had hoped for. Bumped up the RAM, slapped in a big HD 100GB Momentus and life is pretty good. I had my 7200rpm Hitachi in there and will it was "slightly" and I do mean slightly faster than my Momentus the extra power drain was MUCH more noticable than the increased performance. Of course with 1.25 GB RAM I don't have to access the drive a lot anyway.

I still wish Dell had a 14" widescreen lappy like HP/Compaq. That would have been ideal for me. Still light and easy to carry but enough screen to almost replace my desktop. At my desk I have my 700m hooked up to my 2005FP Dell LCD and it works quite well!
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post #9 of 10
4/29/05 at 2:33am
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Originally Posted by lcseds
Picked up a Sumdex compact bag too for less than $20. Can't think of anything else to do to it (thankfully). Love it.
I have gotten the same case, it is great for less than $20,00 and it is much better than the zeroshock because it has enough room to carry my power cord.


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Originally Posted by TeeJayDM
is it wise to get the 8 cell battery instead of the 4 cell? is the weight greatly affected?
I use my 700m in school, so the 2 hours from the 4 cell is not enough for me. And the size of the 8 cell doesn't bother me at all.

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Originally Posted by TeeJayDM
is the screen ok? in terms of size, I havent actually seen it but, it says 12-inch wide screen, is it a little bit small or is it good enough?
The TrueLife technology on this screen makes the small size be perfect for me. After all i wanted this notebook so i can carry around. I worked another day in photoshop for hours on this baby, and it is fine. Haven't had time to watch a movie yet, but i am sure it will be awsome.
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post #10 of 10
4/29/05 at 3:04am
Weight shouldn't be an issue with this laptop and the 8 cell. If it is, don't spend so much time on your laptop and go lift weights
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