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I've been building a few laptops on-line. I stored 2 trial builds on the Dell site last week and wish-listed them. I went back today, signed in and there they were. I built one more and wish-listed it in the same on-line session intending to print them out and compare. The ones previously saved are now gone.
Pretty sloppy if not intentional. Guess dumb stuff happens to the big boys too, huh?
Anyone using an XPS 17" laptop BTW? |
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Yup everything always has its bugs ehhh?
speaking of laptops: I went from an XPS laptop to a macbook pro. I love my macbook pro so much more, running osx 10 leopard and bootcamp with xp and vista. Best of both worlds. I have noticed differences in safari AND firefox on windows VS both on mac (i think mac firefox is 1.5).
The XPS laptops are good though.
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If you are looking at performance, go for Lenovo Thinkpads. You get 4 GB of RAM and the Intel Centrino VPro. I am very happy with my Lenovo T61P. |
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Satya, I ordered my XPS a few days ago with 2 GB ram running XP Pro with Vista pre-loaded for later. I've got a few drivers for a laser cutter and CNC router that need a 32 bit OS, and for now I prefer XP Pro. 64 bit would be good, but my drivers don't like it and... 32 bit only 'sees' 3 GB ram anyway (or so I'm told) so... the world is still littered with minor compromises. I'm not a gamer nor power user so it'll be much more than fine :)
I called Dell directly and they figured out a bundle that saved me $40.00 and then they dropped $170.00 off of the site price. This is our 8th Dell (y'know... kids....) so that probably helped. A $2,600.00 10 LB brick... my offering to the Gods of commerce. I just wished more of it stayed in this country. |
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Originally Posted by: "MitchA"  32 bit only 'sees' 3 GB ram anyway (or so I'm told) so... the world is still littered with minor compromises. I can confirm this. I have 4 GB of RAM in the machine I'm writing this from, but 32-bit XP only sees 3.50 GB. |
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I thought 32 bit OS's could address 4 GB of memory. Andy, is it possible that you have an integrated graphics card that is sharing your system memory? This is very common.
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Just joking around, maybe it's Symantec gobbling up your resources...LOL... |
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A bit dated and not where I got my RAM info from, but... it explains the 2/3/4 GB Ram issue http://news.softpedia.co...indows-Vista-64312.shtml"Windows XP originally supported a full 4 GB of RAM. You would be limited to 3.1-3.5 GB without PAE, but if you enabled PAE on a 4 GB system with proper chipset and motherboard support, you would have access to the full 4 GB. As more people began to take advantage of this feature using commodity (read: cheapest product with the features I want) hardware, Microsoft noticed a new source of crashes and blue screens. These were traced to drivers failing to correctly handle 64-bit physical addresses. A decision was made to improve system stability at a cost of possibly wasting memory. XP SP2 introduced a change such that only the bottom 32 bits of physical memory will ever be used, even if that means some memory will not be used. (This is also the case with 32-bit editions of Vista.) While this is annoying to those who want that little bit of extra oomph, and while I would have liked a way to re-enable the memory "at my own risk", this is probably the right decision for 99.9% of the general population of Windows users," Cook added. PAE... Physical Address Extensions. |
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