Show and tell, vostro 1700 comaprison shots

To anyone whom is considering purchasing a dell notebook of any kind I recommend you study their web site. Dell has good deals but you have to look around to find them. For example, if you were to select a computer that has an instant savings of value x because it’s on sale and then open a new tab in your internet browser and build the same device to the same specs but not from the sales page the end result would be 2 exact same builds on the exact same system with a deference in price that will often range in the hundreds of dollars range. The only downside is that even though there is no cost difference if you buy from the sales page you are sometimes forced to install crapware (yes even on the Vostro series) but for the sake of nearly $400 CND I choose the one on sale which forced me to choose vista business (which I wanted anyway), dells network support, and quick set.

My Vostro 1700 is a Canadian build; the options for either 7200rpm HDD or 256mb Nvidia card were unavailable as options. Though, as this is the now 5th PC in the house hold and is primarily a work semi-play notebook the 128mb 8400 go is plentiful for the occasional playing Day of Defeat Source, Starcraft and my all time favourite Commander Keen.

I was not lucky enough to escape the audio problems that occur with most dell notebooks. At first it had struck me as odd for the audio to skip on many applications after a lot of cursing, troubleshooting and research I realized I needed to remove my 56k modem, instead I put a piece of electrical tape around the audio leads (for extra shielding) that run physically under the modem and the problems went away for a few weeks; it did come back a bit though, so I disassembled my entire Vostro for the second time and took the modem out. The audio has never been clearer. I have the high resolution screen at 260nits, 9 cell battery and all the wireless options 1505 802.11a/b/g/n draft wifi card and bluetooth. They all work excellent, especially since I can use my Sony Ericcson K790a as a wireless presenter, mouse, camera and modem with Rogers.

But the point of my post is not to review but to show; that is because, when I was looking to purchase my Vostro 1700 I couldn’t find any good comparison shots to show the true size. So with my K790a mobile phone I took a few pictures as I waited for my defrag to finish. Enjoy!

 

nice one dude.

appreciate it, waiting on my 1700.

So whats this about removing the modem then? i have no problems doing it, but why?

any more pics lol

Cheers

 

Whats that piece of paper with the "20" on it? Is that that "Canadian" money I've heard about?

 

Ya its almost worth the same as your American Dollar (well I think your american, sorry if you arnt I probably just confused you).

But yes, we have the new "Le Gaye" colours for our money. Purple($10) Pinkey Orange($50) Baby Blue($5) and **** brown ($100). $20s alright, but still too colourfull.

 

I actually have some Canadian currency from a trip I made several years ago. I think they are $2 bills/notes though. Sort of reddish brown, I think. But I guess this is Off Topic, sorry.

 

On all dell portable the cheap audio cards are; well, cheap. I never realized that until after I bought my 1700. In my case, the 56k modem caused interference with the audio card so I took it out. The bad thing though, is that this is my school notebook and since getting cisco n+ certification is a credit i know I will have to put it back in sometime. As I stated though up there ^^^^ this isn't really suposed to be my audio library anyway as this is my 5th PC with at least 1.6 GHz or higher. All I really need that 160 GB hard disk for is all the torrents I get from bit lord which even then are only temporary.

Well I gotta flush the john now I'll post again later. (hey, what else are portable notebooks for!)

 

Hey thanks for the pics those are great, gotta love Sony Ericcssons

 

Is there a step by step guide on how to properly open up the vostro and remove the modem???

 

nice! hopefully i get my vostro tm..damn you purolator!

 

Yes; Dell.com, under the support tab you may search this problem and Dell has a step by step guide.

 

Thanks man for posting your pics especially the size comparisons it really helped i been waiting for picks in the vostro owners lounge for months.

I have one on order and i really wanted to know what to expect thanks again.

I really did not expect the battery to stick out that far even the 9 cell not a prob though i wont be going far from a desk with it any way.

 

Ah thankyou for the pics, When mine arrives I plan on making up for the lack of pics. They are so hard to find.