are your usb ports getting a bit loose? the ones on my right are so...especially the top one...

Sorry bro, cannot show u...Even if i use the S40 to take the pic, u cant notice the different. It's not obvious...

my everest gc print screen

Shot at 2007-08-19

riva tuner print screen

Shot at 2007-08-19

is my core and mem clock normal?

riva tuner doesn't give a correct reading iirc as it's only DDR2

I installed XP over Vista and i found the wifi booster is not available... Can someone help? thanks in advance...

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

Nowadays Dell laptop come with Vista. Newbie here, wanna ask is there any risk if reformat to Windows XP.

Don't worry, it will not void your warranty

For me, XP is much faster than Vista. Initially I have some problem with XP drivers, but now all solved and is working beautifully (check post 1)

can the Vostro 1500 install xp like inspiron 1520 ?

Yes, I think should be possible cause Dell itself supports it

http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/p...bsd1&l=en&s=bsd

Not sure if you want to claim warranty from Dell, you may have to restore the OS to whatever it came with. Let's say if it came with Vista, you need to restore Vista back.This happened to HP/Compaq laptops. A disclaimer and reminder by HP CS.

As long as you gather all the requirement and knew all the step , it'd be easy.As my opinion , if you are newbie ,it's better to wait until all the correct driver avaliable for Dell 1520 only you start installing.Vostro 1500 would be the same too.

I've asked them before. It is not necessary

I think it should already have XP drivers cause they are official selling it with XP preloaded

well, just got my blue 1520 and play on it. so far so good la. just the hard disk clickin sound, light leakage on below and a slight leak at the top of the screen. Love the speakers, at least sound quality better than before ones. (my sis using 630m) overall, loving it

No one notice a small lump there? Or is it that just mine have it? Wondering what's underneath the panel

what bump you mentioning? take a pic and see

Hardly see it with bare eyes, you have to feel it with your finger. Just gently stroke the panel with your finger from left or right with a moderate speed, you can feel it yourself IF it exists.

dunno where you mentioning

Somewhere around the arrow is pointing

Yup i heard riva tuner doesn't give correct memory details for laptop GPUs as well.

And hao, do you mean when you press the laptop at that area, there's an area that doesn't flex while the rest of the area around it flexes?