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    not just another dell studio 17 review

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by nomoredell, Mar 24, 2009.

  1. nomoredell

    nomoredell Notebook Deity

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    aaaaaaaaaa
     
    nomoredell, Mar 24, 2009
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  2. hgfdsa

    hgfdsa Notebook Consultant

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    ATI HD3650 it's the equivalent of nvidia 9600gt.
     
    hgfdsa, Mar 24, 2009
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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    What are you talking about?
    Dell uses Quanta to manufacture all of their motherboards. Hewlett Packard, and ASUS uses Quanta as well. Quanta has made very solid motherboards in the past and they continue to do so. The board in your system is a 5 layer PCB, as are most motherboards, so I do not see the quality difference there.

    Dell uses ATi graphics cards because not only are they more power efficient, but a dedicated card can be installed on a standard PCB, cutting costs and weight, while maintaining performance.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Mar 24, 2009
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  4. bigdarkmad

    bigdarkmad Notebook Evangelist

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    opinion: the whole point of buying studio 17 is RGB LED HD screen, its beautiful , awesome, the best available. its one step up from studio 15 led screen, even better color reproductions. - Bull.
    They Dell have LG, AUO,Samsung... screens.
    Come here and compare your screen to my LG LED 1440x900 screen.
    I brought this notebook especially because the screen.
    And my screen is perfect (I'm not cocky person, but the screen is good really)

    But anyway if you have LG LED Screen, and someone has AUO screen - on the same model with the same specification - it still make difference!

    We have topic here about people with bad RGB LED *ultra sharp bright - eye irritating
     
    bigdarkmad, Mar 25, 2009
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  5. bobnova

    bobnova Notebook Consultant

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    Constant hdd clicking means it's failing, rapidly.
     
    bobnova, Mar 25, 2009
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    Gazza_DJ Notebook Consultant

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    Sounds like the headphones were being overdriven tbh.
     
    Gazza_DJ, Mar 28, 2009
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  7. ronss

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    dell seems to have made a mistake by offering ati as the only option,,,,the mistake is that many who buy notebooks like to installl linux...and with linux, you do not want an ati chipset, you want nvidia...much easier to deal with ...that is why i bought a inspiron 1520 with the 8600m gt....

    try installing ati drivers in llinux....its not impossible, but sort of takes someone who has more knowledge than your average user.
     
    ronss, Mar 29, 2009
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  8. SpoogleDrummer

    SpoogleDrummer Notebook Enthusiast

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    Your average user doesn't use Linux though :p I've never had any issues getting my ATI stuff to work with the Linux distributions I've used though I've only used SUSE, Red Hat and Mandrake when it was around. Certainly wouldn't class my self as an above average Linux user, a beginner at best but had to learn a bit when messing with VMWare ESX.
     
    SpoogleDrummer, Apr 3, 2009
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