How do you like your I9300?

and what do you use it for? Also post your basic specs...proc/mem/hd/vid

 

I 100% love it.I use it for gaming, mostly UT2004 but have played Quake 4 and BF2. I no longer use my desktop PC.

Only change I would say is a bigger HD.

3d05 bench mark was over 3300 with Dell drivers.

Inspiron 9300
Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (1.73 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB), Microsoft Windows XP Home
Intel Pentium M Processor 740 (1.73 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB)

Display 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen XGA+ Display

Memory1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2Dimm

Video Card 256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800

Hard Drive 60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive

 

I like mine too, I use it for software development as well as pleasure. I do some video encoding and burn DVDs with it. So far other than updating the DVD burner firmware I have had no problems. It is fast and works very well. Generally it is faster than my desktop at work! I use the bluetooth constantly with mouse, ipaq and headset.

I communicate with my family with the Microsoft Messenger using a $30 video camera and a Bluetooth headset. No problems here either.

All of this over the WIFI at home and wired at work. It all works very well. Also I don't have the problems I thought I would with the screen as my eyes are old and bad.

Actually I updated my ram to 2gb from newegg, that also works without a problem. Oh and I didn't reformat though I did remove a bunch of stuff.

 

I love my I9300 ....specs are in my sig.

I use mine for gaming and my online schooling. I have no problems running the most current games.

I absolutly love it!!!

 

specs and stuff are in my sig.

i love this machine. it goes with me everywhere i need it and its powerful. one good thing is that i got this machine in a decent price too!

i use it about almost everything.

gaming -> movie editing -> work

 

I like it too. It caused me some trouble before, but I think I have fixed it (had to install my copy of XP SP2 Professional instead of MC), but everything else is great!!!!!

 

So far I really like it.. aside from the Dell bloatware, and minor light leakage at the bottom of the screen.

Primary use is as a desktop replacement, and nothing came close to the performance/price. I'll soon check out F.E.A.R. and I plan to upgrade the memory to 1 or 2 GBs in the next few months..

 

yea dell came with a lot of useless junk besides the quickset and the media experience. i tend to use those. and i had trouble adjusting to a perfect resolution other than the native. but other than that its great

 

How do you reformat? Also why is this done I have seen it talked about often around here.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=23363

 

Alright thanks for that, sounds a little complicated dont think I need to do it.

 

I LOVE IT!

I use it for gaming/school work

Specs are in my sig below

 

The only thing I dislike about the 9300 is the keyboard. It could of been better or a bit more rigid.
my ctrl key on the left fell off but luckily I found it and snapped it back. I am a heavy typer and I can feel the keyboard flex quite a bit.
Other than that I love it.
Its very fast, screen is great, weight it not too bad compared to what I used before (Smaller and heavier). Photoshop runs awesome on it, games run excellent on it also.

 

I like it when it's beats competition

 

i love mine as well , sold my pc on craigslist =)

i doubt i will ever buy a pc again

 

yea i agree. i think dell could have added a numpad at least. other 17 in laptops have numpads why doesnt dell do it too. i didnt think it was really useful until now when i need it

 

Yea a numpad would be great!
I use my numpad on my desktop all the time for my business so it would truly be handy.
I guess I will need to purchase a external one to use when I am at my desk, when I am away I can live with using the one on my keyboard.

 

hell yer laptop this big needs a number pad standard my last 17inch laptop gateway m675prr had one just makes life easier!