Official Vostro Owner's Lounge

Well sure you could install the mylar sealed keyboard, but if you're going to go down that road I could gold plate it and through some spinners on my Hdd . The point is the vostro is better stock.....Vostro power!

 

yes you can do both of them but have you ever seen the MBP video guide about changing the HDD and memory? http://youtube.com/watch?v=AFCre0upeD0

 

Anybody knows what would be the windows vista performance index with the 5470 cpu? (which btw intel.com does not have any information on)


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^No idea, because I do not believe that anyone has actually received a Vostro yet, and the 5470 is not available in Inspirons...

 

yea...but i think the 5470 has all the santa rosa chipset features (makes it more efficient?)

 

^Yes, the 5470 is a Santa Rosa processor, with a 800mhz FSB, which I assume makes it better than the 5250 and 5450 available on the Inspirons, which only feature 667mhz FSB's.

 

I do find it odd that I cannot find any mention of the T5470 on the Intel website...

 

I just order it yesterday, and I am going to call them for the refund tomorrow.

 

For overclocking is it better to have a high multiplier or a low multiplier. If I'm not mistaken, the multi on the T5470 should be 8x. Anyone overclocked it yet?

 

Hey Future Vostro Owners

I'm trying to configure a laptop with an 8600m GT on the cheap, so I'm looking at the Vostro 1500. So far, this looks like my setup.

1280x800
T5470
1GB of memory (will upgrade later)
8600m GT
120GB hard drive
2 year warranty
bluetooth/wireless 802.11a/g
$877 before taxes. free shipping

I basically just used this link and upgraded the video card, warranty, bluetooth, and wireless card.

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bqdwk2j&s=bsd

Is this a good deal, or are there any ways to get a similar configuration for cheaper? Before I pull the trigger, I just wanna check and see if anyone sees any better deals that I missed.

Thanks