Is there a secret to finding a good but low cost laptop?  Most seem
more expensive than regular PC's.
   I want one to hook up to my wireless network here at home, out in the
backyard, and maybe take on vacation or simply take to town and try to hook

My Dell Latitude 3500 has broken hinges on the lid/screen. I'd like to
buy replacement parts (I can't find a place in the area to take it to
for repair) so that I can open and close the screen lid.
I ordered what I *thought* would do the trick. But, when I received

I need to replace the CMOS battery in a Dell Latitude L400. Can
someone recommend a good source of these batteries, and a schematic of
how and where to replace the battery>
Thanks,

I've got two 2400 DIM's. One a P4-2.4 gig   purchased mid year 04,  and
a Celeron 2.4g purchased in May 05 and, I have two questions:
A>   Now that the DUO CORE is about to be released, any thoughts about
the P-4 prices dropping  ?  I'd like to put a P4 with a higher Gig  in

I am getting a laptop skin and wondered if I can remove the Dell badge
on the front of my laptop? It is a Latitude c640 I don't really want to
take it all apart so any ideas?

I got a Dell Inspiron 5150 2 years ago and it will not run on AC
power. But it will run On battery power. It isn't the AC adapter, got
another one.
Some one told me it was the RAM but I replaced that and it still

Hi, can I put in an internal SATA drive in this computer (bought about 5
years ago)? If not, are there any possibilities of doing it? Thanks....Ken

I am in the market for a Axim, need it for small business, mostly for excel
sheets, etc, some wireless connection where available, etc.
would like to get the newest like a x51V, but is there a big difference with
the speeds?

I am looking to upgrade the Video Card on my Dimension 8200. It came
with an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400 with 32mgs of Ram.  The only reason I
want to change cards at all is I want to hook up two Monitors and
possibly watch TV on it.

Is this possible?  Current processor is 1.6 ghz.  Due to buying new toy,
(DVD burner) I now need at least 2.0 ghz.  Currently running XP Home
with 512 megs of RAM.

I don't think I posted this problem in this NG, and if I did (my
apologies for the repeat post)
I have a Dim. 8200 desktop and I have been mystified as to why
download.com is not loading... ever. I emailed cnet and back and forth

I'm new to using SATA drives and have a DMA question.  I have the original
Win XP Home OS install and OEM 160GB WD HD as my primary SATA0 drive and
added a 320GB Seagate 3.0GBs NCQ HD as the secondary drive on SATA1.
I burn a lot of DVD's and Nero Info tool reports that DMA is ON ...

Dell Inspiron 2600 Laptop
Windows XP Home
No Upgrades
My girlfriends sister has this laptop. And she had the hard drive

http://www.channel4.com/player/playerwindow.html?id=2125&vert=science
Bad luck about the 30-second BT advert at the start, nevertheless it's very
interesting.

Dimension 8400 currently running XP Pro.
Tried to install Vista RC1 to my second SATA hard drive.  Got to the
screen where you select the drive to install Vista.  Selected the drive
and formatted it.  When I try to click Next to install Vista it says