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Adobe Premiere Pro :D

May have something to suit, but I don't see anything in pretty colours...

Shouldn't it be closed as it's promoting the illegal downloading of music?

[/LIST]So, don't use any of the features you bought it for and make it impossible to read the screen, and if possible don't use it at all? Intelligent. Why not do what SE did with the Xperia, which was make a battery that could cope with the drain...

Gone!

Yeah, take the battery off, 3/4 very flat and short screws hold the top panel off, take the hinge covers out and the strip over the keyboard, 2 screws on the keyboard and it lifts up and it's the one that goes across the top of the optical drive. :)

Under the keyboard there's a connection for it (4-pin IIRC) which is just a plain USB but without the frills. That'll be all it is!

Nope, Dells are pretty good TBH. Only issue I've raised time and time again is that they couldn't fix my XPS because of an nVidia chip - but that wasn't Dell's fault - HP/Apple/MSI/Gigabyte/Asus all had the same issue. Other than that one laptop, every Dell laptop I've had has been brilliant...

What Intel chip, and what do you want it to do?

Got an ATI Radeon X600, will fit nicely. Similar performance to the existing graphics, but has DVI and VGA out. And you can have it for the cost of postage!

I've got a multi-touch pad fitted to this laptop here...

You'll get a dreadful resolution. Really not advisable!

Service tag sticker on the back is best bet, ends in a J.

Work in Birmingham, sleep in Derby...

A lot of them come with a VGA out, and you have to buy the DVI plug in board. Same with a load of our HP desktops.

I've got several of various brands - think I've got a 5-port Netgear or Linksys somewhere.

Exactly - just buy a cheapie switch. Got one here you can have for the postage... In fact I'm not even too far from you!

Absolute BS. Macs now use the same hardware. Clock for clock, they are identical.

If it's a brand new Dell system, I've got a graphics card you can have for nowt. Just need to confirm form factor for me...

And what PC is it to fit in, do you need AGP or PCI-Express? Or really old, PCI?

He has a point, so I'll butt in. What do you want to know? Maybe I can help ;)

The Dell restore stuff is actually pretty good, but to start with I'd just use something like Raxco's PerfectDisk to try and sort out your hard disk - do a full defrag, then system files (restart required), then a full defrag and you should be back up to speed unless it's thoroughly borked.

FFS! You big fuckin homo - whining about 8meg broadband! Some people need to live in the real world - we only get 2meg, which is more than ample for what I tend to do! My webserver lives on a dedicated 100meg line, and the office we have a dedicated 10meg line... That serves an entire company...

We've got an office in Hatfield and a couple of people there owe me a favour. Let me know if you fail with the above offer...

Don't get me wrong, the Asus is very good value, but in terms of 'feel' I think the Samsung wins. Plus the space for HSDPA if they get round to it will be a winner - I'll be buying a new one when they do! It's a feature the current generation of Netbooks are missing, and it's not too hard to...

700-800kbps - you mean kBps or kbps? As they're very different. Either way though that's similar to what I get reliably over my BT line in my village...

This one's not got the fittings for it, however when they do release the HSDPA-enabled version (not sure on release date for that though!) there are the solder heads for both the Mini ExpressCard and the SIM reader under the battery. From my first post.

VGA - HDMI is hard work... At best.

Fair enough, that's your opinion - however I very much believe that while, yes, 5 and 6 had room for improvement, 6.1 is very much a different animal. Complete with the X-Panel on the Xperia I think it's a very functional device - much more so than any of my old Mobile devices. Hell, even the...