yo all, i'm a new owner too! details in the sig. anyway, I wanted to ask about the USB 3.0 performance. I seem to be getting around constant 60-70mb transfer speeds, when I should be getting much higher right?

I'm using a WD passport 500gb and in the pc is a intel ssd. I expected transfer speeds of atleast 100 something.. is everyone getting around the same mediocre speeds? I used a 3gb video files to test btw.. got the latest renesis (i think it's spelled like that) drivers from dell and stuff.. thanks!

bro, I'm curious, how do you check whether turbo boost is running? using prime95, my clock maxes out at 2.2ghz.. i thought it was supposed to reach 2.9, right?

i ran prime95, in the beginning around 85 stable, after about 30 mins plus, reached 95, didn't rise after that..

well.. try to kill it before the warranty ends la..

when i got the laptop with all the included crap-ware, on standard 500gb hard drive, I think i clocked around 57 seconds. It's considered not that slow la.. if you want, you could reformat and use the provided cd to reinstall everything, this completely removes any crap-ware, but you'll have to download the latest drivers though, the included driver cd have some out-dated ones.

In my setup, I ripped out the hard disk after first boot and plonked in my old ssd, reinstalled everything, now it boots within 15 seconds.

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Added on June 22, 2011, 8:11 pmbuying refurbished laptops are always risky, it really depends on the owner mostly. but if you ask me, I think i'll get a refurbished XPS over an inspiron or any acer shit-top. but remember, it really depends on the owner, so be sure to check everything, and i mean everything. right down to every single key, every led, every pixel if you have to..

This post has been edited by Maverick_Neutron: Jun 22 2011, 08:11 PM