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    Happiness in a box

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Liquidx, Sep 6, 2007.

  1. Liquidx

    Liquidx Notebook Evangelist

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    So many of you including myself have had your new 14/15/1720's for a little while now.

    What do you all think? Are you happy? What do you like best about the machines? Worst? Improvement ideas (with an exception, I don't want to hear a million people say "no more grainy screens"?

    I am just curious.


    I personally love my machine. In fact I am so happy with it, that I tore apart and pieced out my desktop machine. I have decided to get a plasma or LCD tv with a monitor hookup for watching movies on in the future. I have not found a game yet this wouldn't play at stock speeds. Even Bioshock looked really good, and I mean REALLY good on this machine. If you guys haven't checked it out, snag the demo, the graphics alone are worth a look. I am very happy with my wireless as well, the antenna aray has worked great for both my wifi, and my evdo internal cards. I also am extrememly happy that I have that option to drop a evdo card into my laptop and not have to worry about it taking up my one expresscard slot. I watch movies on this, listen to music, and game quite a bit. I use it in school, where the 9-cell battery comes quite handy. Battery life is excellent, usually over four hours.

    Only thing I have a complaint about so far is the noise in my headphones, which I rarely ever notice, because it's not noticeable with music playing. Although I must say I love the included headphones, the sound killing parts of them work great! Also the webcam on this machine is one of the best I have ever seen. The microphone always picks me up loud and clear and I don't have to feel like a talk show host sitting up next to it, I can actually sit back a bit. The only improvement I can think of would be in the paint finish. some of the matte finish is coming off on the corners, I am assuming due to constantly in and outing it from my back pack. But the color is still there, so I am somewhat happy with that. As long as the paint doesn't start chipping I won't say anything to dell, but if it does, I am going to see if that is covered under warranty.
     
    Liquidx, Sep 6, 2007
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