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    Inspiron 1520 Owners

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by bmnotpls, Jul 28, 2007.

  1. bmnotpls

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    I just ordered mine today 7/28 and my shipping date is 8/15

    My specs are:
    Inspiron 1520, Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 2.0GHz, 800Mhz, 4M Cache
    Jet Black Color with Matte Finish
    2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
    15.4 inch Wide Screen WXGA LCDTrueLife for Inspiron 1520
    256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
    160G 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
    Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition,
    9 cell battery

    Do you guys think Ill get it earlier?
     
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  2. devsk

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    Jet black and WXGA? most likely, yes!
     
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    Congrats!

    I almost got the same one :) But

    7200 RPM HDD, WXGA+(?) 1680x1050px LCD and 6 cell battery which doesn't stick out.

    It took them about ... (don't remember) 7-14 days to build it and DHL delivered it in like 2 days (pretty fast).
     
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  4. bmnotpls

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    Well I live in Louisiana and supposeably they come from Texas

    so it should not to be that to ship
     
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    U make the fact that i got jet black and wxga bad
     
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    OT. Devron, you have identical config as me except for the nvidia card (I am not a gamer). Did you already mention that you see graininess on your screen at 1680x1050 or not? I have yet to receive mine and graininess stories have me worried a little. I will really appreciate if you could PM me or reply here about this screen.
     
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    No, I meant that most likely it will ship much early.
     
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    Oooo.. SCORE
     
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    I didn't understand your previous post correctly...good one there!

    and yeah, I didn't mean that... :)
     
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    It's great - no "graininess" no nothing :) But the text is kind of small - although there's an option in vista called DPI - it kind of messes up the resolution (correct me if I'm wrong) in some apps. + Does not support firefox.

    But for gaming, videos and stuff like that it's great.
     
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    Davron, apologies for the spelling. Nobody likes to be called with the wrong name.

    I am glad to know that the graininess is just for people who look too much into it.

    Regarding DPI, its a shame that windows allows only two extreme settings for it: one makes it too small, the other too large and wacky for some apps. I wish it allowed a custom value like Linux does and we could use a reasonable middle value like 120.
     
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