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March 30th, 2007 20:00
Vista and Inspirion 9400 questions
Hello everybody,
I recently ordered a Dell Inspirion 9400 laptop and it includes a free upgrade to Windows Vista, which I think will be preinstalled. So the question which I am asking is whether it's a good idea to reformat everything on the new laptop in order to get rid of all trial products (bloatware, if you will) and things that will slow down the laptop and then reinstall Vista on it? Will that help with speeding up the stuff on the new laptop? Or can I just go into Add & Remove Programs and get rid of all those silly trial products, and it should be fine from there?
My tech specs are:
Dell Inspirion 9400/E1705
Intel Core 2 Duo T5200 (1.6ghz, 2L 2mb cache, 533 FSB)
2gb of RAM (shared dual channel, 533mhz)
256mb of Nvidia Geforce Go 7900 GS
80gb of harddive
8x DVD +/RW (dual layer)
WXGA+ w/ TFT LCD screen
One more question, and it has nothing to do with Vista at all. Can the new laptop be upgraded with 4gb of RAM? Or is it overkill to do that?
Dan
- Before you do it read the manual about the partions. media direct hast to be on it's own partition. My drive was bad and they sent me a new on(had xp at the time). So i reformated my drive reinstalled XP tried to install media direct and it said that i didn't partition it. So I had to do it over, after that i had read instructions and did it.But yes i always reformat the drive and do a clean install
- Fresh installs are a problem for many; don't do it. You will be able to remove the preinstalled junk with no effort, and not have to worry about doing the install 100% correctly.Dimension 9100, Win XP, 3.0 GHz P4, 2 GB DDR2 533 MHz RAM, 160 GB SATA II Samsung, 300 GB SATA II Seagate, 250 GB SimpleTech USB (WD Drive), Nvidia Go 6800 (425/825 MHz), Dell 1901 FP UltraSharp
Inspiron E1705, Win Vista Premium, T7200 Core 2 Duo (4MB, 2.0 GHz 667MHz), 1 GB DDR2 677 MHz RAM, 2 GB Transcend 150X SD ReadyBoost, 120 GB Samsung HD, Nvidia Go 7900 GS, 17” Sharp UltraSharp TrueLife Wide-Screen WUXGA
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Posted March 31st, 2007 10:00
I'll refer you to the portables hard drive forum for your first question. I think most advanced users prefer to do this.
The answer to your second question can be found in your manual. Maximum memory is 2x2-GB, or 4 GB.