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    Latitude D600

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Sykotic, Nov 10, 2006.

  1. Sykotic

    Sykotic Notebook Evangelist

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    Employer is about to upgrade and told my group we would be able to keep our D600 for personal use afterwards. It runs great with a 1.6PM centrino, radeon 9300, 512 megs ram and 60gig drive. I would like to upgrade the software from XP pro to MCE. The laptop doesnt have a video tuner card but I would like to move all my media files from a portable drive to the hard drive. I would also like to install Media Direct. Can this be done? Will the hard ware be enough to support it? Thanks
     
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    You should e able to install MCE, and as long as your media files will fit on your laptop HD then it should be ok (i can't really answer this since i dont know how much free room you have on your HD or how big your media files are).
     
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    It has a 60 gig drive. 5 times more space than I curently have in media files. My concern is will my hardware support it. One of my larger ideas is if the Dell Media Direct can be installed on this computer since it never came with media direct.
     
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    Well it is a Dell computer, and it looks powerfull enough to play media files, so i can't see no reason why it wouldnt work.
     
    gethin, Nov 11, 2006
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