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    New D820!!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by kingcrowing, Jul 7, 2006.

  1. kingcrowing

    kingcrowing Notebook Evangelist

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    I got it, I love it! two issues, #1: the batter would jiggle a tiny tiny it, but anough to notice it when you movie it around, I put a piece of take on the inside of the batter ycompartment, stopped all jiggling, #2) the latch that holds the screen down jiggles a bit, but not really an issue because it only jiggles when you move the whole machine becaue the screen is sooo frim, theres like no wiggle once you move the screen where you want it. and the screen, omg, its great! I got the WUXGA (1920x1200) and it looks great, I had some worries about it being too small to read but its not an issue at all, it was automatically set to 120DPi but I changed it to 96 and its perfect. The graphics card is also perfect for me, It runs Max Payne 2 on max everything including AA @1920x1200 perfectly, I'm gonna try KOTOR in a bit and see how that runs too. It runs very quiet and the only thing that ever gets hot is the (7200RPM 100GB) hard drive when I'm installing programs or doing like 10GB file copies. and with wireless on and the screen brightness set to auto detect It says 5:30 battery life with internet and chat running, so thats really good for a 15" with such high specs (2.16GHz core duo, 2GB, 7200RPM 100GB HD, nVidia 120M 512MB turbocache) over all I'm VERY happy and would totally reccomend it to anyone whos in the market for a very fast, portable machine who only wants to do light gaming, or who just plays older games like me.

    PS: The eraser hed is sweet!!
     
    kingcrowing, Jul 7, 2006
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    rydude07 Notebook Evangelist

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    how well does it do with games?
     
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  3. syxbit

    syxbit Notebook Evangelist

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    wow
    i use and set them up all the time at work
    always 1680*1050 though.
    i was thinking of getting the D620, as i think 15" is too big for me.
     
    syxbit, Jul 7, 2006
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  4. kingcrowing

    kingcrowing Notebook Evangelist

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    as I said, with Maxpayne 2 it plays it at 1920x1200 on high everything well so pretty good, It'll prolly run like Oblivion on low everything pretty much, its the same as a 7400go, and people can get oblivion to rrun on that on mostly low/med settings and still get like 25-30fps
     
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  5. kingcrowing

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    Halo also plays at highest settings @1440x900 (highest widescreen res for the game) perfectly at a constant 30fps (theres a setting to keep it constantly at 30FPS) and it looks really nice
     
    kingcrowing, Jul 7, 2006
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