Official Vostro Owner's Lounge

Hehe yeah I've been watching that one =] thankyou though.

According to dell my 1700's should be here tuesday, I'm super excited.

I might even put together some good pics and a video review since I've had so much trouble finding them.

 

I'm in Australia so I ordered through the Australian site, not sure whether it's available on the American site. The Targus bag was $9.90AU when I ordered and there was also the free nylon case promotion so I got that too. It was at a sale price at the time *I think* because of the free nylon case promo, it's normally $75 AUD.

I will let you know how it fits when I get it

 

" I might even put together some good pics and a video review since I've had so much trouble finding them."

That would be nice I would like to see that it is very hard to find pics of the 1700 I can't wait till i get mine.

 

Is it possible to put 2 HDDs in a vostro laptop? This might have been answered already, and I"m sorry if it has been, but I saw somebody with a vostro 1700 who has 2X 160 gig hdds, it'd be awesome if I could put my current 120 gig hdd in my new vostro along with the 160 that's in there already.

 

As long as the drive is a SATA drive u should be OK look at the specs in my signature straight from the dell site.

u can configure the 1700 with (2)dual HDD out of the box.

 

That is very cool, I thought I would have to use an external housing for my old HDD, but this simplifies a lot of things.

 

This is kind of a random question, but does anyone know whether the Dell/Broadcom 1390 Wireless card (shipped with my Vostro 1500) is capable of WPA2 encryption? I'm confused because Dell's 1390 product page *and* the Dell WLAN Utility's help files both refer to WPA2 support but it doesn't seem to work.

With my router (Dlink WBR-2310; firmware 1.04) set to WPA2-EAS mode, the Vostro's 1390 card does not authenticate. In WPA2-Auto-EAS mode (this is a mixed mode accepting both WPA and WPA2 clients), everything is fine.

I'm 95% certain the issue is on the receiving end at the Vostro and its Dell 1390 card because my other laptop with Intel's 3495 card connects just fine in the WPA2-EAS mode and the auto mode mentioned above.

 

yes, it has WPA 2...

 

Wanted everyone to know that my vostro 1700's came yesterday morning for my girlfriend and I. They are amazing. Thats all I can say. Very sturdy, screen is amazing, 9 cell battery on full charge says 5+ hours (I haven't tested that but its still pretty nice) the 8600m gt performs amazing I play TF2 all the way up and get about 50fps and with WOW settings all the way up I average about 150fps only dropping to about 90 in spots. Got mine with vista business and there wasn't much on it except a stupid google toolbar which is a quick remove. overall I'm really impressed, best notebook I've ever seen.

Heres a lil view of my desktop.



Once I get a day off I'll get some nice pics up.

 

thanks for the desktop shot what screen do you have?