Dell Inspiron 9400 With Intel Duo Core Available (specs)

[krazz]

Ok, since you all have nicely voided your warranty, put some arctic silver thermal paste on the gpu and the heat sink. That should make your idle decrease by 10C. Basically a 10C drop in overall gpu temp. Maybe then you can push it to 400mhz. Have you ever thought of that.

How did they void their warranty(specifically)?
CCBR01: What is the difference between sp2 and standard xp pro? For some reason they are sending me the sp2 and I don't understand the diff.

To those that have their 9400/e1705's, have you checked temps while overclocking and multi tasking?

update* shipped today, will arrive sometime next week. I, too, can't wait

[sly2k]

My 9400 should *finally* get here today. Dual Core goodness. I can't wait to get it here so I can run benchmarks on it and set it up to dual boot.

Should be interesting to see if my linux distro compiles correctly.

[RedStar]

SP2 ==service pack 2.

A service pack contains patches for the winXP up to the point of release. However, SP2 actually got some major security updates/features ...like The DEP i was talking about earlier (a system designed to prevent buffer overruns by locking memory), got an IE update ...some security settings were turned on by default...and a greatly improved firewall.

bottom line: Be glad they gave you win XP service pack 2

Edit: Sly2k: "Should be interesting to see if my linux distro compiles correctly" oooo, check to see if a usb device drains your battery (up to an hour faster drain). That way we can see if it really is a win XP problem...or, more related to the core DUO cpu or chipset. (i tend to think it may be hardware...since Toms hardware states both MS and Intel knew about this problem from JULY. If they coulda fixed it easily, they would have)

[notebknewbie]

its becoming more and more noticable. thought i might be able to ignore it but i think i'll be calling dell about the light leakage... other than that i'm happy as a pig in...

[sly2k]

My coworker's 9400 also has pretty horrible light leakage. He doesn't care but I think it'll bother me a bit. Don't count on dell to do anything about it though. We complained about the 9300s light leakage also and they said it didn't cause problems with the laptops functionality so they didn't plan on fixing it.

[notebknewbie]

My coworker's 9400 also has pretty horrible light leakage. He doesn't care but I think it'll bother me a bit. Don't count on dell to do anything about it though. We complained about the 9300s light leakage also and they said it didn't cause problems with the laptops functionality so they didn't plan on fixing it.

thats poor seeing the kind of $$$ we're putting down...

on another note, i've never had a notebook before and i was looking for info on the sound card in the system info where i noticed there are options for output, up to 7.1. so i'm wondering if i have to buy a external card or if i can find an adapter to plug into. i was going to buy the audigy 2 zs but if i can just get a headphone jack adapter even better.:budget:

[Flames_Fan_Forever]

"inclimate weather delay" from Purolator. Delivery delayed until tomorrow. They're telling me the TransCanada Highway was closed into Kamloops yesterday. Yeah right, that would be big news around here and I didn't hear a thing. Anyone else on the board happen to be from Kamloops area and have a comment?

I swear I have the worst luck. Tomorrow I will be out all day for a funeral so of course they will try to deliver it then. Purolator didn't have a local number for the depot for me to call them even.

My oh my, sucks to be me.

[Garbuckle]

It's no picnic over here either, flames

They also say the east coast is experiencing bad weather that's affecting deliveries. Neither one affects me, but my laptop is still "in transit in US". What's funny/depressing is that I ordered a keyboard/mouse, external harddrive, and snap-on cover for the laptop on Tuesday and the keyboard was delivered Wednesday, the harddrive today, and the snap-on cover will be tomorrow.

I'll be calling purolator/dell later to see what's up with my long-awaited lappy.

Looks like opposed to "first in Canada", it'll be more like "last in Canada".

P.S. Anyone try hooking up more than one monitor? Think it's possible to have 4 total (Built-in, one on DVI, one on VGA and one on Svideo???)

[Flame X]

I got the dual screens set up...pretty cool ey?

I can watch a movie on one screen, while using photoshop or surfing the net on the other :P

[RedStar]

very sweet!