You could get better notebook for gaming with that budget like Lenovo Y460, Sony EA16, Asus N82Jq, Asus A42Jv....

Oh, those are better? But like the Sony EA16 only uses i5. Isn't i7 better? And what abt the GC? How do u know which is better?

Games prefer better GPU rather than CPU, even if you have i7 but crappy GPU, the game will lag like hell....

About GPU, can browse here...
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1109389

LOL, i really dun really understand the link u gave me..Super noob lol..

Can break down for me easily?

Higher marks, higher performance, roughly....
To put it simple, for your budget, the ranking GPU you could get
HD5730 > HD5650 > GT335M > HD565v = HD4670 > GT330M > GT320M > HD5470 > HD5145 = HD4570

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Jul 26 2010, 03:56 PM

Erm for the FN function to adjust brightness and stuff, why when i single click F4 for example, it adjust brightness instead of F4. I prefer pressing Fn+F4 to adjust the LCD brightness. This so frustrating because when i want to close a program, i have to click FN+F4+ALT now

There should be an option on the bios to switch the function key....

well...mine is stil very alive here!!
last few weeks i realized tat the GPU is hot like hell...so i decided to open up the whole laptop jus to clean the fan!!o.o
guess what!!...ther was a bunch of dust and hair like things stuck at the heatsink and block the airflow!!!
after the cleaning and put it back in shape!! amazingly, the gpu temp is almos 10C colder after testing it with NFS Undercover,
and now i can feel the fan blowing like when it was new out of box!!^^happy......

my LCD screen spoiled few months ago hahaha.
but luckily it was still under warranty

This post has been edited by elm0001: Aug 5 2010, 07:42 PM

hi terrence0488,
can I know how u open up the laptop 2 clean the fan??
thanks

It's been awhile since I drop by here, thanks to Lee for answering all the inquiries here, you deserve the green tag

I need to clear mine too, I wont be surprise with what I can found when I open up the laptop. Oh ya, the screw driver that you used to open the bottom cover, is it the size that commonly found in any precision tool box out there? I'm buying one soon, just to operate my S15

urm... wut the smokey design called ei... plan to get 1 of this... the middle black 1...

This post has been edited by hitokai: Aug 9 2010, 02:04 AM


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Should be Graphite Grey, but the one in the picture is black...

yea been wonder what tat call too... mine with chainlink just gt stolen 3 day before... sadly... now need to fork out and buy another 1... if i call a rep at dell could i get a better price...

Possible to get better price...

o.o if i exclude sum item like ac cord... os cd ( still have ) and mayb shed a tear or two... ngek ngek... could get lower ei... then ill play the sympathy card...

This post has been edited by hitokai: Aug 9 2010, 03:12 AM

Don't think can exclude those items...
can try pm tplcaik or putochip123 see can get lower price or not...
budget how much?

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: Aug 9 2010, 03:22 AM

eh below 4k... 3.5k ++ like tat...

Complete guide here---> http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/syst...en/SM/index.htm

btw... just curious... since some1 stole my lappy... will he be able to use it? since i configure password and face access?