Finally got my i9300, and love it!

So I made my final order to Dell on April 5th 2005, and recieved it yesterday, the 19th of April 2005. Not bad, 14 days wait is pretty decent to me. Opened it up and was a little suprised by the weight, but I was expecting that anyways. I don't k now what everyone else is talking about design wise, I think this laptop looks sleek and sexy, very nice looking. Opened it up, got it running, and then wham! Reformated the hard drive. It was nice looking at my today screen and not seeing 20 previously installed programs on it afterwards! Of course my HDD was the first on the boot sequence, so I had to tweak it so it booted from disk so I could reformat. After that I spent some time installing McAfee Firewall and Virus Scan and playing around with the screen settings. I love the widescreen 17" monitor, and I have no problems at all with the UXGA resolution at all, love it! This machine is quiet, from the silent keypad to the low noise when playing a DVD, I couldn't believe how quiet it was. And a cool system too, I had this on my lap for at least 5 hours lastnight and hardly noticed the heat! Way to go Dell on a superb Laptop. Thus far no problems, still have to tweak tonight after work and install Dells multimedia experience. One problem I am having however is when I open up webpages I'm finding they are not loading correctly and I thinks it's because of the res and DPI, but I don't know how to fix it so they look normal! Anyone know? Anyhow, that's it for now, I think it's a great machine and look forward to testing her out soon!

**I9300, Duel layer 8x dvdrw, 512mb, 256mb geforce, 17" uxga truelife, wifi, Centrino 1.6ghz, 60gb hard drive**

 

I'm no expert, but it sounds like you have the dpi setting at 120 or higher (right click on desktop, choose "properties" and go to "Settings" tab, then "Advanced", should be under "General"). Knock it down to 96 and webpages should look right, although EVERYTHING else will get very small. Personally, I like it that way - why get a 1920x1200 screen if you don't use the real estate it provides - but some people have a hard time with it, seems to strain their eyes. Don't forget to use ClearType, too, that will help (right click on desktop, choose "properties" and go to "Appearance" tab, then "Effects", second item, make sure "Clear Type" is selected and the box is checked).

 

Thanx for the tip, I'll look into those settings when I get home tonight! See if that works for me. Do you shrink the webpages on your screen so they don't actually cover the whole screen?

**I9300, Duel layer 8x dvdrw, 512mb, 256mb geforce, 17" uxga truelife, wifi, Centrino 1.6ghz, 60gb hard drive**

 

i shrink them down, i was doing some web development and the pages looked silly all stretch across the screen

Dell 9300 * 2.0ghz sonoma * 1gig ram * 256mg nvidia wuxga * xp media center * dvd dual layer * 80gig 5400 * bluetooth * wireless a/b/g *

 

Can you customize the web stuff using the nVIDIA desktop manager? It's got so much stuff in there, I can't help but assume it's possible to do this. I don't know what all the setting mean, so I am reluctant to try it without having someone more experienced do it first. Any guinea pigs in here??? [ ]

[9300 with Pentium M 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 256MB NVIDIA 6800 GeForce Go graphics, 17" LPL WUXGA+ TrueLife display, 60GB HD, CD-+RW/DVD-+RW, Windows XP Professional, etc.]