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I'm pondering purchasing a new Dell laptop, but most of the new laptops have the new but slower Centrino instead of the Desktop P4. I like to play many games, like Freelancer, Morrowind, NWN, DungeonSiege, etc. How important is CPU speed vs video card memory when it comes to proper rendering and...

Hey, thanks for the info, RaPTuRe. I'll fish out the Alienware manual after a bit and see if I can puzzle out if it can handle ATA100 or not. It's one year old, if that matters. I've asked Alienware tech support a couple of times, but no one there seems to know (or if they do, they sure as hell...

Hi. I posted this question in the hard drive forum, but only got one useful answer before the thread went off topic. I thought I'd post it again here to see if I could get the real answer to my question. Older post follows: Hi. I was reading about the new 7200rpm Hitachi hard drive for laptops...

Hi. I was reading about the new 7200rpm Hitachi hard drive for laptops. I was comparing the specs to the 4200rpm hard drive that is in my Alienware laptop, and they both have the same physical size and the same power requirements. However, the older one is ATA5 and the newer one is ATA6. Does...

Hi. I have a slight problem, and I'm wondering if I can get some ideas to solve it. I've a Dell Inspiron 7500 and it has a rather puny 8mb video card. Is it possible to upgrade video cards in a laptop without upgrading the whole bloody thing?