I manage to buy mine as the last few customers before pc fair closed. Yeap they do offer the free "premium mouse" and 15months mcafee, on top of that they'll give u a 100 bucks off the price. thats prolly the only reason why i bought it on the spot.

I was told that white, black, yellow, pink and red has sufficient stock atm, other colors are required to wait at least 3 weeks to 5 weeks.

And complete cover only covers msia, sg, philipines, aussie (if im not mistaken), so if u took this and u were to be abroad and ur dell is faulty, u gotta send it back to these countries to be entitled for the complete cover.

Got my 1520 at a whoopin 4.4k pricy but i hope its a good buy
below are the specs
-C2D T7300 (2.0ghz, 4mb cache 800mhz fsb)
-15" widescreen truelife -hope i don regret this
-2x 1gb 667 ram
-160gb sata hhd
-8x dvdr (heard plenty of complains on this)
-Geforce 8600gt 256mb GDDR2222
-4965AGN wifi minicard
-audigy card (just add 35, only applicable in pc fair)
-9 cell battery
-3 Yrs Complete cover
btw i just went to dell's site, apparently their new warranty is called "Dell Care" -  3Yrs limited warranty (includes night & weekend) + 3Yrs plus phone support + 3Yrs CompleteCover + 1Yr HelpDesk @ 659 from a default 1year warranty.

apart from the grainy screen n leaking, wat other problems does other 1520 users get?

I might be mistaken but its not a card but just a software upgrade. And if you look around the forums you can find something similiar.

I have purchased this for the 640m before. I could not find any noticeable difference in the sound output.

Heh, mine crashed while playing C&C3 too. sigh.. 

Make sure you are using original C&C3. Pirates one are prone to crashes.

could it be vista?

Got it for roughly two weeks and still no time to give a deep exploration. Mainly used for normal routines - surf Internet, listen to mp3, watch TV series and etc.

Yeah, there isn't any widespread C&C3 crashing issue I can find.

Well is there any fix for this?

How do you measure that?

does the cnc3 lag during the game with 8600mgt?

I suspect the driver..becuz u have to know..the 8600 GPU for mobile is still new..nvidia is fixing their bug for vista..escpecially in game..my friend desktop user also have many of lag isue..in most of the games..so keep ur updating driver's habit on.

Haha, try to switch all graphic configurations to high and see...
Just checked dell website, the price changed again for Inspiron5200...
i wonder what's the difference between WXGA, WXGA+, WSXGA+ display.
does it make observable differences?

Yes it's possible. Use a software-based or just set it up on Control Panel. U don't need button for that. That will be a waste.

I tried installing one of Nvidia drivers that support the 8600m gt card and ended up with my Aero theme gone. windows experience index went down from 4.5 to a bloody 1.0..

Had to pull out my Dell's display driver DVD.

Usually laptops have switches built in them to detect if the lid is open or closed...in order to conserve power. Even the power option in the control panel doesn't help...because it cannot detect if the lid is closed or open.

Apparently this new inspiron models doesn't have them built in.

All i can do is set timer to a lower limit and let it turn off the screen after a minute or so. What a pain.

but strangely they included it wo

Backpack is easier to carry around (and also the weight is distributed over 2 shoulders). Another thing, if you carry a sling bag with the word "DELL" on the side you'll be more prone to snatch thefts and car break-ins.

hey guys.. im in some serious shit now.... i inserted my M2 into the adapter and inserted the adapter in my memory card reader. it didnt read anything, so i pushed it to take it out... then it went deeper and now its stuck... cant take out. any1 can help?

oh, and my remote control doesnt seem to work? i just got my laptop few hours ago, so is there some setup i have to do ?

OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista (32-bit; 64-bit versions of Vista are not supported)

CPU: 2.0GHz or high, or AMD equivalent, Vista - 2.2 GHZ

RAM: 512 MB or more, Vista - 1GB RAM or more

Disk Drive: 8x or faster DVD drive for retail SKUs, not required for digitally downloaded version

Hard Drive: 6.0 GB or more of free space

Video: GeForce4, ATI Radeon 8500 or greater (ATI Radeon 9200 and 9250 PCI, NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX cards not supported.). Windows Vista - NVIDIA GeForce 6100 or ATI Radeon 9500 or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.

Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card

Network, Internet Multiplayer: 2 players (no voice support) - 56 Kbps Internet connection; 2-8 players (with voice transmission) - Broadband-class connection

have anyone check the graphic card core clock or mem clock of the graphic card?
i using everest to check but it shows some weird stat
the game perfomance also not good

Do you guys notice that there's a little bulge between the power on button before the DELL word on the LCD panel?

what bump you mentioning? take a pic and see