Just got a new laptop two weeks ago.
Here are some information about it
1. hadware configuration for dell 9400
17inch LCD, Inter Core2 T7200 CPU, 2G 667 RAM, 100G HDD at 7200rpm.
ATI X1400 video card with 128M RAM.
It is really fast laptop, indeed i use it as my workstation now.
Alrough it is really heavy (4kg+), i still carry it between home and office everyday.
However, i must say that the quality for dell insprion product line is poor compare with the latitude ones. I already replaced the keyboard.
2. BIOS
I think nobody like those BIOS comes from DELL or HP. Since they locked the front side buses. That means you can't overclock the system. For my case, the T7200 should be easy to run with 2.13GHz speed without any problem.
The Bios's version is A04, i updated with latest version (A06) from dell support site
Here are some interesting configurations in the BIOS
* All FSB related information are read only
* The Multiple Core Support has enalbed by default
* HDD Actoustic Mode: it is set to bypass by default, i changed to 'Performance', which can get faster HDD but noisier. That is ok to me, I don't think laptop is noise at all since i used to work with those big HP. Solaris box before.
* Virtualization: See the next post
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