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    Shipped!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by keveeseeram, Aug 27, 2009.

  1. keveeseeram

    keveeseeram Notebook Geek

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    Yay! It shipped! My Dell Studio 15 shipped! Check the sig for details! IM SO EXCITED!
     
    keveeseeram, Aug 27, 2009
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    congrats on the new rig. I was kind of on the fence about the black chainlink but saw it at a local Bestbuy and really liked it, it was very understated.
     
    voltaire, Aug 27, 2009
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  3. keveeseeram

    keveeseeram Notebook Geek

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    That's good to know :) I think it looks cool!
     
    keveeseeram, Aug 27, 2009
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    Mastershroom wat

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    Apart from the 900p display (I have 720p), it looks like you and I have pretty much identical configurations. You should be quite happy with it. :)
     
    Mastershroom, Aug 27, 2009
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    Congrats on Shipping :D
     
    jid, Aug 28, 2009
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  6. keveeseeram

    keveeseeram Notebook Geek

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    They still have given me an Estimated Delivery Date :mad:
    But I'm still excited!!! :D
     
    keveeseeram, Aug 28, 2009
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    Congrats !!!
    Mine is also the same .. except 900p. I ordered on Aug 20th and it shipped on Aug 27th :) my EDD is now Aug 29th.
    Congrats to me too :)

    Mine is shipping to my place in Bellevue, Washington , looks like it shipped from Reno NV, so it takes 2 days for me.
    Though it says 3-5 days shipping, it is shipping via FEDEX ground. I dont know if all lappy;s ship from Reno NV, mine does thats for sure. And good that i am closer to Reno NV. If iwas in New York it would have taken 5 days ... :)
    I wish i was in bay area, i would have got it in 1 day.
     
    hdplus, Aug 28, 2009
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    keveeseeram Notebook Geek

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    Yay! It arrived today! It's awesome and I'm typing on it now! No issues, nothing. I love it so far. Thanks guys! Let me know if you need any info and I'll help out :)
     
    keveeseeram, Sep 1, 2009
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    Grat's on it's arrival & that all is working out!

    Are you going to post a few pics for us all to see? ;) :cool:

    Cin...
     
    Cin', Sep 1, 2009
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    Sure. :) I just transferred all my files and it's really fast. My index is 5.1
     
    keveeseeram, Sep 2, 2009
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    Awesome! Whenever your ready to post em' that would be great! :cool:

    Index scores are pretty cool! :)


    Cin...
     
    Cin', Sep 2, 2009
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    So happy for you! The backlit keyboard is grrrreat isn't it?
     
    funkystevie, Sep 2, 2009
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  13. keveeseeram

    keveeseeram Notebook Geek

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    The backlit keyboard is excellent. I love it! The change from my old
    computer: 2.0 to 2.4 is AMAZING! I'm in love lol
     
    keveeseeram, Sep 3, 2009
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    By the way, are there any things I can delete from the computer that Dell installed that I really don't need? I uninstalled Dell Dock already. Anything else?
     
    keveeseeram, Sep 4, 2009
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    I actually kept the Dock; I rather like it. I just reformatted and installed Vista from scratch. The only things I installed were the hardware drivers, the Dell Dock, QuickSet, and the Dell Touchpad thing.
     
    Mastershroom, Sep 5, 2009
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    i found that after installing a few software's my harddisk in use was 71GB !!!! god know how !!!! Moreover factory sends with a single partition, which i dont like, so i tried to shrink the partition using windows disk manager, but looks like during one of my defragmentation attempts a chunk was placed in the end of the drive, so i wasnt able to shrink it .. so i used Gparted so that i can reboot into linux and shrink it from there.. I wanted about 140GB for that .. since my HDD is 320 .. usually i see only 300, out of which 20 is for recovery so finally usable is only 280GB. so with 140 GB used i will get another 140GB for ubuntu etc. Well Gparted did it great ... but it took 3 hours !!!
    Once done, when i restarted .. well startup repair opened, and it was attempting repair .. now i realize its better to do a vista install from scratch, good that dell sends all drivers and OS reinstall disks !!! ?Yippie i am going to reinstall the OS from scratch, that would be fun !
     
    hdplus, Sep 5, 2009
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    Yay,I just ordered one of these today and it's pre production,I live in Ireland and i decided to go for the backlit Keyboard :)

    Here are my specs:
    *Intel® Pentium® Processor T4200 (2.0GHz, 800MHz, 1MB cache)

    *15.6in Widescreen High Definition (1366x768) WLED with TrueLife

    *3072MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048 + 1x1024]

    *250GB (5,400rpm) Serial ATA Hard Drive

    *512MB ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4570

    *Fixed Internal DVD+/-RW Slot Load Drive including Software

    *Primary 6-cell 56 WHr Lithium Ion battery

    *Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g)

    *No Bluetooth Upgrade

    *2.0 Mega pixel Integrated Web Camera

    *Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Backlit Keyboard

    *Black chainlink

    The machine is one of the stock selections and it set me back €618.99 inc Vat and P&P

    Which is $882.79
     
    RichardT, Sep 5, 2009
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