Dell 1737

[mintums]

I've been lurking for a couple of days looking at Outlet laptops, what are the general opinions on these please?

Seems a bit of a bargain.

Will be used for movies, gaming (Fallout3 is the newest game I plan on running) and web browsing. I did look at the smaller models (GF has a Vostro 1500) but I can't cope with the lower resolution on the small screens.

Any thoughts, recommendations or alternatives?


edit... the same spec on the vanilla dell site comes in at £748 but this includes the vat and delivery.
edit 2... added Vostro

 

[Robe$h]

Hi there, sorry to hi-jack this thread!

I have recently bought a Dell Studio 1737 laptop and am having a very annoying problem with the touch sensitive buttons to control volume etc. Basically, whenever I press one of the buttons, a screen comes up displaying the speaker and it won't allow me to do anything else, it just crashes. So I restart my laptop and it takes almost an hour for it to reboot into Vista. And I have noticed that one of the buttons is continuously illuminated when trying to reboot into Vista and won't turn off. It seems that as soon as you touch one of the buttons, Vista must think that there is someone constantly pressing down on the button and maybe this is why the light won't go off.

Basically, is there a way to completely disable these touch sensitive buttons so this problem doesn't keep happening? I really don't use them anyway.

Thanks for the help!