[New] Vostro V13

It is a sexier design, but even at the Adamo's lower price, several things make me prefer the V13 for business use: matte screen, spill resistant keyboard, larger hinges,, VGA port, ExpressCard, audio ports on the front and a standard 2.5" hard drive. I can always upgrade to an SSD when capacities get higher.
The one thing I wish it had is an extra USB port as portable eSATA drives sometime use two USB ports to power them.

The Adamo is certainly sexier and spec'd higher, but has too many compromises for typical business use. If I wanted dead sexy, it is hard to beat the Sony VAIO X. I saw a guy using one on my last flight and damn that thing is amazing.

 

Could someone find out clock generator model in mainboard? thanks.

 

it's a RTM875t-606, not overclockable unless you do the pin mods

 

Just got a 4 GB ram chip . Any istructions how to install it?

 

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Thanks ! I don't know what made me think that it would be a DDR2 ram chip,I got the wrong 4GB but at a very good price hehehe

 

anyone do a breakdown to access the cpu? i was also curious if it was swappable. It might be, unless its like a soldered on atom CPU. I bought the low-end model and may want to update the processor at some point.

 

All CULV CPU are embedded on board. Unless you replace mainboard entirely, upgrade of CPU won't be possible.

 

Actually, me too, I plan to upgrade my Celeron M 743 to SU9400 or SU9600 which Dell doesn't provide at this moment. Because, as what I said earlier, all CULV CPUs are soldered on mainboard, it will be a quite difficult, somewhat expensive and relative dangerous job. And apparently, forget your warranty if you do so.
If you really want to upgrade CPU solely other than, say, simply buy a SU9400 (for example) embedded mainboard, you should do following jobs:
1) find the CPU you want to upgrade to. It's not easy, cause Intel provides BGA packaged CPUs to notebook manufacturers only, you can't find a retail-boxed one in market. Anyway, it's still possible to get a recycled or brand new OEM unit from internet like ebay. But no one can ensure its quality.
2) find a BGA rework station and ready to pay service fee.
3) keep praying during rework process. Even for an experienced technician, success rate of removing a soldered CPU from mainboard without damaging the latter won't be 100%. This rate normally closes to 70% to 80%.

If you have a friend who is a microchip-engineering student, things will become pretty easy. Just give him CPU and laptop, he will get work done in lab at university. But success rate won't be raised, even the operator has been changed to a postgraduate. You should still be ready to pay a new mainboard.

Fortunately, I have such a friend, and I'm looking for a good SU9400 or SU9600 chip. Once cpu arrives, I will give it to him and promise him one(or two) bottle of beer if job's successfully done. I don't really care warranty, but hope that won't cost me a mainboard.

 

I looked through the bios before posting, and never saw anything about the integrated video card. I just figured I'd ask, but 2.93 is not uncommon for 32 bit operating systems. I was just hoping it would be more like my older Dell. I am considering installing a 64 bit OS when I get a ssd. Am I correct in the understanding that the accelerometer is the only thing that the drivers are missing for 64 bit?