Dell Laptop User Thread

[cheong79]

i dun noe. its just a guess. Tink ur GT should be better than GS though. lol.

anyway the windows experience thing isnt really reliable one lah. The factors contributing to it may be a little weird i guess. Maybe you update your driver you will get another different number

What driver by the way?

 

[cheong79]

Went to Nividia web, there no driver update for laptop 8600m series.

 

[msmurf]

Hi msmurf,

Can check with u, when u click remove ur thumbdrive on the USB icon, do ur thumbdrive still light up?

Mine always light even the message said "SAFE TO REMOVE".

Dunno issit the bug like wat've Diavonex mention?

yo, the same thing happened to me too. ??? bug???

 

[l0nEr_]

Hey, actually i dun noe much about the windows experience index. But i do believe its slightly flawed. (please do not quote me, im a newbie too) i think u can google it. there are quite a lot of forums/articles about it.

Anyway... according to http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-6165086.html

The first of the two graphics card scores, the Graphics sub-score, indicates how well a computer will run Windows Aero and play back Windows Media video. This measurement is based on the amount and bandwidth of dedicated video memory, as well as DirectX 9 support and the capability of the card’s WDDM Driver (Windows Vista Display Driver Model).

The second of the graphics card scores, the Gaming Graphics sub-score, is based on the frames per second at which the graphics card can handle different textures. Other factors that contribute to this sub-score include Direct 3D 9 support and Pixel Shader 3.0 support.

This site has a discussion how why a person's graphic score dropped from 3.6 to 2.0 even though he dun remember doing anything. but there isnt really a conclusion i guess.
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?threadid=222576

 

[BurgerLim]

Hi, All

just to check my lappy batt currently discharge as weirdly
from 100% to 80% at good rate (like 45mins or so time)
then from 80 to 30% like in just 10mins.!!!

thinking its dying... anyone can spare some advice? revive it possible?

 

[Diavonex]

If battery is about 2 years old, it's time to get a new one.

 

[G4]

well, i didn't get any dell yet, anyway, m1330 starts shipping in some countries as reported in:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/30/dells-xps-m1330-finally-ships-to-all-regions-this-week/

and

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/07/29/22676.aspx

 

[huntzer]

http://www.jrin.net/reviews/dell-xps-m1330/

Some guy already got it...finally...

 

[BurgerLim]

for xps-1330 with normal screen? how much thicker? cos seems it comes with 2mp webcam..? and 100 cheaper!

 

[cracker]

For those who had ordered the 1420...what was ur waiting time ?

I ordered during the launch on 30th June and it delivered on 19th July.

But from 01 to the 22nd July week, the price for the same configuration was lowered than what I had paid....sent an email to highlight my displeasure on the long waiting time plus price reduction during the period.

 

[BurgerLim]

For those who had ordered the 1420...what was ur waiting time ?

I ordered during the launch on 30th June and it delivered on 19th July.

But from 01 to the 22nd July week, the price for the same configuration was lowered than what I had paid....sent an email to highlight my displeasure on the long waiting time plus price reduction during the period.

Hi, Think u can get the price different refund... from dell.. just check with their cust service...

 

[cracker]

Hi, Think u can get the price different refund... from dell.. just check with their cust service...

yup i got it plus a thumbdrive.

 

[cybernick]

Hi, Think u can get the price different refund... from dell.. just check with their cust service...

Yup they have a 14-day return policy or something like that...

 

[dragonflyII]

Hi,

Does anyone haf any recommendation of sleeves for 1420 with 9 cell? Is the considerable embrassment able to fit this laptop?

 

[l0nEr_]

Hey, just got my dell laptop. Inside got this recovery drive (partition) of 10gb. Is it required or helpful? can i just remove that partition? The material in that drive can all be found in the cds right?

Also, disk management shows that there is another 2.5gb parition which is has no drive letter. Is that the dell mediadirect harddrive?

Also, i tried to reduce the size of my C drive, and then create a new partition out of the unutilized space, but it would say that there is not enough hard disk space. Why is this so? Help?
Thank You.

 

[Diavonex]

......i tried to reduce the size of my C drive, and then create a new partition out of the unutilized space, but it would say that there is not enough hard disk space. Why is this so? Help?
Thank You.

You cannot make the C: drive too small.

You need space for Paging Files and Hibenation.

 

[Diavonex]

Hey, just got my dell laptop. Inside got this recovery drive (partition) of 10gb. Is it required or helpful? can i just remove that partition?.....

The Recovery partition can recover your C: partition to Factory Default in 6 to 10 minutes.

It'll take you many hours to recover with the CDs.

Note: Recovery partition once deleted cannot be recovered.

 

[l0nEr_]

Eh... i reduced the C drive from 120 to 90... taking out 30, den i tried to make a new partition out of the 30GB, but it wouldnt let me.

But can i reduce the size from 10Gb to 6GB which is actually all it needs. haha.. trying to save on every bit of space.

 

[Diavonex]

Eh... i reduced the C drive from 120 to 90... taking out 30, den i tried to make a new partition out of the 30GB, but it wouldnt let me......

You can only have 4 Primary partition.

 

[l0nEr_]

Oops. didnt know that. So basically if i want to have another partition, i can cannot keep my recovery drive or my media drive. Hmm.. Thanks A lot.