Recent content by locky28

Hi All, I'm having some trouble with my Dell Inspiron 1420 with Windows XP 32 Home SP2 and Ubuntu 8.04 32 installed on it. I went to a LAN party on the weekend and took my laptop as well as my Zalman 5.1ch headphones which I plugged into the front of the laptop and set up to use surround sound...

Talk to them first, see if you can get yourself off their books by just asking. Next call your bank/credit card vendor and talk to them about it, if you can confirm that they are not giving you a service that they are charging you for or you haven't requested then they should be able to block...

Have a look at the Dell Inspiron 1420 (14.1") or 1520 (15.4"). Make sure you also have a look for any coupons or discounts you got. I got 5% off ($130) by simply asking if there was any discounts for Uni students such as myself. I just bought a 1420 recently, just got a call from the Depot so...

Get the one with the 667mhz FSB and the 4Mb Cache, I'm assuming a T7200 or something similar. See even though the other chip has an 800MHZ FSB, as LW said because the RAM is only 667MHZ the FSB can't fill the RAM up at 800 anyway so it's pointless. The 4Mb cache is going to be much more...

Cheers mate that's what i was after. Anyone know if theres a substantial performance difference between T7100 (1.8ghz,2mb cache) and T7300 (2.0ghz 4mb cache) and do you thing the difference is worth AUS$150 8600M GT is what I'll be getting but should I keep the stock wxga+ screen (1440x900) or...