Dell Vostro 1500

Hellsmk2 · 7 Sep 2007 at 22:33

Ordered mine on Sunday. It arrived today at 3pm. The delivery date given was around the 24th so I'm very happy!

So far I'm impressed with it. It's quite heavy but the build quality is impressive. I haven't tried any games on yet - Dual booting it with XP and Vista Ultimate.

GuruJockStrap · 7 Sep 2007 at 23:21

InwardSinging said:
Using the bioshock drivers makes Medal of Honour playable, its probably only about 20-30fps with medium detail and 1024x768 but at least its a go-er now.

Take it you used the Dell drivers first then installed the Bioshock drivers? Just goes to show what a difference drivers can make.

All we need is nVidia to pull their finger out.

From what I've been reading in the graphics card forum, nVidia are some way behind ATI in terms of Vista support.

Metalface Mark · 8 Sep 2007 at 01:03

Well you cant overclock with the bioshock drivers, but seeing as my HTPC with XP (2.4 C2D, 2gb ram, 8600 GTS) isnt really a million miles away from the spec of the vostro, i think ill stick XP on tomorrow and see what the difference is, while i can play games on the htpc, unless its joypad enabled, its not very easy to do with keyboard and mouse.

JoDaMa · 8 Sep 2007 at 12:14

For any people who are interested in seeing how well this laptop runs World of Warcraft, i'm currently getting 50fps in Shattrath with all settings on full

Metalface Mark · 8 Sep 2007 at 12:24

Thiras said:
For any people who are interested in seeing how well this laptop runs World of Warcraft, i'm currently getting 50fps in Shattrath with all settings on full

I get between 50-60 depending where i am with full detail and full AF on, runs brilliantly for Warcraft.

JoDaMa · 8 Sep 2007 at 12:33

Im installing Battlefield 2 Complete Collection now, i'll see if that runs any better then Warcraft.

bailey12856 · 8 Sep 2007 at 14:58

djjuk said:
As long as mine runs Footy Manager ok I'll be happy

footy manager runs perfectly on full detail

hahah

ic1male · 8 Sep 2007 at 17:56

TBH, I'd say no. In bright lighting the gloss becomes annoying.

Metalface Mark · 9 Sep 2007 at 10:02

Spilt half a bottle of irn bru over my vostro when i came home from the pub, fortunately the lid was shut, but it was a close call!.

JoDaMa · 9 Sep 2007 at 10:14

InwardSinging said:
Spilt half a bottle of irn bru over my vostro when i came home from the pub, fortunately the lid was shut, but it was a close call!.

Lol, that was lucky!

RoboCod · 9 Sep 2007 at 10:27

Quite a few of you appear to be getting delivery within 1 week or so. I placed my order on the 1st so I just wrote to them querying my delivery... I'm too impatient

JoDaMa · 9 Sep 2007 at 10:53

I got mine in 12 days i think, i guess it depends on how much your customised spec is different from the options they give you.

Hellsmk2 · 9 Sep 2007 at 11:54

I'm really impressed with mine.

I have the True Life screen - The glare when facing any light source is quite bad, but the quality of the picture is excellent. I can't say whether it is better than the standard screen though.

Ranek · 9 Sep 2007 at 14:13

GuruJockStrap said:
The Turbo memory is solid state RAM that Vista can use. Read up about it here with some benchmark results: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3009&p=1

I shall time my Vista boot up for you now.

Mine takes 38 seconds to get to the login screen. That's from a cold boot. After I've logged in, its another 4-8 seconds before the OS and all my startup apps are fully loaded.

Thats with my own fresh installation. Lords knows what it's like with the factory Dell install.

Just as a comparison just timed mine with Dell's own install and from hitting the power button to the login screen appearing took 54 seconds.

Gives you a rough comparison with a fresh install.

bailey12856 · 9 Sep 2007 at 18:11

GuruJockStrap said:
The panel on my Vostro is from Philips and there is no graining at all. It's the AUO displays that seem to be having the problem.

how do you find out who makes the panel??

Posty · 9 Sep 2007 at 22:48

ordered

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 Processor (2.0GHz,800MHz,4MB L2 cache)
Base Warranty - 1 Year Business Hardware Support
15.4" Wide Screen WXGA (1280 x 800) Display
Matte Jet Black without Camera
2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
256MB nVidia® GeForce® 8600M GT
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive

hope ill be happy

GuruJockStrap · 9 Sep 2007 at 23:28

bailey12856 said:
how do you find out who makes the panel??

double click on Monitors in the Device Manager
double click on Generic PnP monitor
go to Details
on the details screen click the property tab and select hardware ids

SEC = Seiko or Samsung
LPL = LG or Philips
AUO = AU Optronics

Metalface Mark · 9 Sep 2007 at 23:52

I have the AUO and have no graining.

GeForce · 10 Sep 2007 at 07:32

InwardSinging said:
I have the AUO and have no graining.

bailey12856 · 10 Sep 2007 at 09:58

mine is LPL

screen is perfecto