I made up a side by side comparison of the XPS vs. homebuilding an identical system. And I didn't even hunt around, I'm sure it could be done for much cheaper. See the comparison TXT file here: http://www.angelfire.com/nj4/pc/xps_comp.txt
He also thinks he's getting an XPS laptop. I can understand a laptopa bit, but all my desktops from now on are either gonna be from the trash or home built. (If I find an OEM, in Clearance real cheap or something, don't think I'll turn it down. :-D )
FYI, "Base" on the comparison is the Base XPS system at Dell. For instance, that only gets you a 3.2 GHz processor, I ran a 3.4. Also, that only includes 512 RAM, I ran 2 Gigabytes of RAM.
Dell dektops aare OK, just up the cooling a bit, bu the laptops have bad cooling and performance. Remember when you tried to benchmark your cooling?what was it? like 200*
Let's see just what Inspiron 8x Fan GUI has to say....
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Well, it says 159*, but I know it's gone into the 160's. It's a common problem with this laptop. Now they are made with a copper heatsink and 2 slots in the ram cover (not that that has much to do w/ CPU temp). I have to call and scream some time to get them to replace the heat sink on it.
Ok, I did some searching and asked a bunch of people, theres a version of windows 2003 server .net that is over 3GBs but it is made to be installed from hard drive to hard drive. Its a hacked copy of the trial version. To get it working you have to attrib the the damn files and install drivers. Even comes with the i386 directory from the CD so you can use the MS OEM drivers.
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PS. I'm in 2000 and happy with it,
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I think I'm gonna rfmt my laptop (again), or just get back the linux partitions. Linux is not for laptops! Maybe I'll put it on a desktop.
if you want a Linux box, get stuff you know that works. I know like mostly all 3COM, ATI, and Creative Labs stuff works.
I made up a side by side comparison of the XPS vs. homebuilding an identical system. And I didn't even hunt around, I'm sure it could be done for much cheaper. See the comparison TXT file here: http://www.angelfire.com/nj4/pc/xps_comp.txt
He also thinks he's getting an XPS laptop. I can understand a laptopa bit, but all my desktops from now on are either gonna be from the trash or home built. (If I find an OEM, in Clearance real cheap or something, don't think I'll turn it down. :-D )
170*F is the max before they die...
My Durons run SETI all the time and stay about 110*F.
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Well, it says 159*, but I know it's gone into the 160's. It's a common problem with this laptop. Now they are made with a copper heatsink and 2 slots in the ram cover (not that that has much to do w/ CPU temp). I have to call and scream some time to get them to replace the heat sink on it.
Where's C++ authoring tools in Windows and things of that nature? What? I have to spend a ton of money to have something that Linux gives for free?
Score for Linux!