prettykewl
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My family was one of the earliest to be connected to the internet. Ah, it was great. Through all that time we never ever really got a laptop. Well we finall got one. And I must say is kinda sucks. Ok, let me go trough all my rants.
We got a dell Inspiron 8000. It has a pentium3 850 mhz, 128 mb ram, 20 gig hard drive, dvd drive, ati mobility m4.
Now the first thing I noticed was that the resolution was 1600x1200 I believe. The text was somewhat hard to read. I changed the resolution to something more resonable. It shrank the screen with a black border around it. So I went into the advanced properties and told it to scale the image to the size of the panel. The pictured simply sucked. And sucked pretty darn hard.
The next thing I noticed was the battery life. Now when I typed or ran any other simple app it lost barely any power. Even when watching dvd's it was resonable. But when I tried to play something like the sims or starcraft it eats up power. And when you are using the GPU it drains the battery so fast. BTW I was using two batteries. One extra one I purched and placed in the slot of the floppy so they drained simultaneosly. (sp?)
The comp was also slow. I remember a while ago intel annouced thier speedstep technology to make the processor run at a slower speed when it was not plugged in. When I was buying it, dell never said how fast it runs at will unpluged. I went into bios and it said 700/850 processor. Ah no wonder. There was also an option in bios about conserving energy or gain of performance. It had seperate options if it was plugged in or not. I did not change this. I plan to try it later. But the performace in a game was not that bad. The lowest FPS I got in c-strike is about 25 with a ton of guys shooting. And thats at 800x600. But its running apps and opening new windows the seems slow. Maybe its cause the hard drive is ata-33. I am not sure of it though. I wish there was a way to make the cpu run at 850 all the time. I though when I first heard of speedstep you could do that. I wish tehnology evoled for laptops just as fast as pc's. I wish that really about the graphics in the laptops too.
Well thats my ravs. I would like to get your opinion about your laptops. Did I make a purchasing mistake. Thanks
We got a dell Inspiron 8000. It has a pentium3 850 mhz, 128 mb ram, 20 gig hard drive, dvd drive, ati mobility m4.
Now the first thing I noticed was that the resolution was 1600x1200 I believe. The text was somewhat hard to read. I changed the resolution to something more resonable. It shrank the screen with a black border around it. So I went into the advanced properties and told it to scale the image to the size of the panel. The pictured simply sucked. And sucked pretty darn hard.
The next thing I noticed was the battery life. Now when I typed or ran any other simple app it lost barely any power. Even when watching dvd's it was resonable. But when I tried to play something like the sims or starcraft it eats up power. And when you are using the GPU it drains the battery so fast. BTW I was using two batteries. One extra one I purched and placed in the slot of the floppy so they drained simultaneosly. (sp?)
The comp was also slow. I remember a while ago intel annouced thier speedstep technology to make the processor run at a slower speed when it was not plugged in. When I was buying it, dell never said how fast it runs at will unpluged. I went into bios and it said 700/850 processor. Ah no wonder. There was also an option in bios about conserving energy or gain of performance. It had seperate options if it was plugged in or not. I did not change this. I plan to try it later. But the performace in a game was not that bad. The lowest FPS I got in c-strike is about 25 with a ton of guys shooting. And thats at 800x600. But its running apps and opening new windows the seems slow. Maybe its cause the hard drive is ata-33. I am not sure of it though. I wish there was a way to make the cpu run at 850 all the time. I though when I first heard of speedstep you could do that. I wish tehnology evoled for laptops just as fast as pc's. I wish that really about the graphics in the laptops too.
Well thats my ravs. I would like to get your opinion about your laptops. Did I make a purchasing mistake. Thanks
