Dell £339 Laptop 15.4" widescreen, wireless, DVDRW (NOW GONE - that's all folks!)

Kilty_2

J400uk wrote:

Is it just me or is the laptop intollerably slow with 256mb ram - even with all the dell crap removed. I don't know if it is the norton I installed or the laptop itself.

It is Norton, without a doubt.

My 1300 flies even with 256mb RAM.

J400uk

Kilty wrote:

It is Norton, without a doubt.

My 1300 flies even with 256mb RAM.

OK, I think I will take norton off in that case. What antivirus do you suggest I should get?

Kilty_2

J400uk wrote:

OK, I think I will take norton off in that case. What antivirus do you suggest I should get?

I use F-Prot on my Desktop and its good, although its not legally free

AVG is supposedly quite good, and free

J400uk

I put AVG on and it is noticeably faster. I am also hoping to add an extra 512 ram to bring it up to 768mb as this will become my main computer.

Kilty_2

J400uk wrote:

I put AVG on and it is noticeably faster. I am also hoping to add an extra 512 ram to bring it up to 768mb as this will become my main computer.

I'm going to add another 512 to mine as well in the near future, RAM usage gets pretty high with only 256.

Wish it was still £25.99 though, £28.34 now :mad:

Bubba_Shaboo

Kilty wrote:

Wish it was still £25.99 though, £28.34 now :mad:

When did you last look :rolleyes:

It's been £27.17 for a few days now

Pity they won't accept my Visa Electron though


Bubba©

talkshop

magicplastic wrote:

When playing back DVD's on my Inspiron 1300 15" Widescreen, the video is not full screen - there is a very large gap both at the top and the sides of the screen.

I understand that the image will only be as large as the aspect ratio allows - but surely this should only stop when either the top or side of the image meets the edge of the screen.

I have tried the dell DVD player, Windows media player and cyberlink power DVD.

Thanks

You can change the settings in Power DVD to fill the screen. Don't ask me how though, but I have done it, and it works

Kilty_2

Bubba_Shaboo wrote:

When did you last look :rolleyes:

It's been £27.17 for a few days now

Pity they won't accept my Visa Electron though


Bubba©

Wooo

They dont take Electron? :mad::mad:

magicplastic

talkshop wrote:

You can change the settings in Power DVD to fill the screen. Don't ask me how though, but I have done it, and it works

Feel stupid now - it was the DVD i was testing with , for some reason that disc wouldn't play full screen, but others will.

Doh!

Bubba_Shaboo

Kilty wrote:

They dont take Electron? :mad::mad:

No, but they've accepted Big Momma Shaboo's Visa

512MB on its way today. :j

magicplastic wrote:

Feel stupid now - it was the DVD i was testing with , for some reason that disc wouldn't play full screen, but others will.

Doh!

We've all done similar I'm sure , but at least you now know it's nothing wrong with the lappy.

Cheers,

Bubba©