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Guys have a look at what a small protection device can do. Yesterday their was a surge in the mains where in 440V was briefly recived between the live and neutral. My homemade spike buster protected my laptop and TV but got fried in the process. Here are some photographs of the damage. Moral of...

I am getting a bty life of about 2hrs 45mins on normal usage (Internet browsing and music) with my 17r.

Guys Shocking discovery about the dell 17 r. The network adapter is a 10/100Mbps only no giga bit interface. In linux it works with a gigabit realtech driver r8169 which beats me. The wifi driver is the Intel centrino 2230 using the iwlwifi kernel module. About the LAN interface it looks like...

Guys Del takes approx 28-30 days to ship the Dell 17R. It is ok, trust me its worth the wait. So about the mSATA drive in the 17 R, It is a 32Gb Samsung device of which only 8Gb are being used by the Intel H77 chipset for the Intel smart Response technology (A lovely white paper on this tech is...

Guys Does anyone use Linux on his new laptop? I am strugling with the wifi setup. Any help would be great (I am using a stage 3 gentoo installation and have gooogled hard for this issue)

Ultra Rich.....I hope i was .... i had to save save save + citibank credit card + beg from wife to get this stuff (money given on the condition that laptop does not enter the bedroom) then was i able to afford this.

Guys I got my lappy. Its cool and boots fast, windows installation took 15 mins getting ready to load Gentoo

guys this config is the default given by Dell no user preferences allowed. In the Indian version of the 17r their is an empty hdd slot available where i plan to put the 256 G vertex4 ssd. This will house the OS+office 2010+NIS. I have up[graded the firmware in the SSD to 1.5 by using my old...

The major spec are as under 3rd Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM Processor 2.30 GHz 8-in-1 Memory Card Reader:SD,SDHC,SDXC,MMC,MMC+,xD,MS,MS Pro 17.3" 3D Capable FHD WLED True-Life (1920x1080) Integrated 1.0 Mega Pixel Webcam 8GB 2 DIMM (4GB x 2) DDR3 1600Mhz 1TB...

Hi guys, my first post, I too have ordered the 17r and eagerly waiting for it with the ocz vertex4 readywith me. Dispatch Bangalore 07 Aug 12. maybe two more days away.