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Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:17 pm
Nice.
I guess the older Dells were more solidly built. My old Latitude CPx is indestructible...no sounds from the case...although the display's a bit dim when used outside.
Nice pics anyhow, it's interesting to see how laptop internals are evolving. Not the extremely purpose-built shape of the video card. Built by dell, using ATI components, just for that model case with those internals and that specific monitor. You don't get that kind of specialization in parts with a desktop.
But then, that has one major drawback: there are no true ATI Catalyst drivers for that card, you use Dell's version, which is not quite as manipulatable or stable. But ATI can't make drivers for every single machine/card/monitor combo, so it's left to Dell to do that part.
Question for you:When that laptop is running, if you click the "safely remove device" icon in the taskbar icon tray on the right, does your CD/DVDROM or floppy drive (if you have on, and it's in) show up? My roommate and I both have Dells, same basic "tech era" (his is PII450, mine's PIII500) both running WinXPHome (bleh!) and his does not show this while mine does...I'm curious as to why it's different...