Opinion on new Dell XPS m1330 webcam, poor audio, slow, overall opinion-bought June 2

Opinion on new Dell XPS m1330 webcam, poor audio, slow, overall

opinion-bought June 2008 Vista

Web Cam-Terrible:Better frame rates in better light though, but still

sub-par performance.

Audio: Also such lousy speakers in my new (June 08) XPS 1530. Like an

old transistor radio if you are old enough to remember those. No bass,

too much treble. Tiny speakers. Saw them when tech replaced my LCD which

was broken on delivery. Took him 3.5 hours to replace. A lot of wires

and tight fits.

LanTray icon: I get a red X for 60 seconds on the network icon in

System Tray but can still surf wired or wirelessly. After 60 seconds,

red X goes away. Plugging in Ethernet makes no difference on Red X. Who

knows. Also records some error regarding the Broadcom mini card 1395 (I

think) adapter not being able to find a certain file specified. But

others have reported this with no problem or resolution. You find this

error in Event Log under System.

Vista slow-have tweaked everything I know and read about. May try a

dual boot back to Windows XP and hope everything works including

portable small IR Remote Control for Video/Audio, webcam, etc.. Tweaked

services, paging, TCP/IP connections, write cache, advanced caching,

eliminated some tasks from the onerous task scheduler, and on and

on..... But sure there are more....

Media Center Direct: Supposed to press Media Center button and have it

not boot into Vista but be able to play DVD's/CD's. Not a big issue for

me but it does not work. Perhaps I have an incorrect BIOS setting or

form what I read per Dell: If you have more than one account, Guest or

other, and an Admin account requiring a password (like I have) then it

will boot into Vista first. Others told me this is not true, but this is

what I have experienced on my machine and what I read.

I have all the latest drivers.

Open to comment suggestions, tweaks,etc...

Sincerely

Peter

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