[Dunhamzzz]

Originally Posted by holmes4

I have made this comment before, but it makes no sense to me that they would build separate runs of motherboards with and without the connectors. That has to cost them more in the long run. The only thing I can think of is, as you suggest, that they don't want people ordering the base model and then adding the options themselves.

Yeah I think this is it, I'm sure if they advertised a spare slot it would encourage more people to buy it and they'd make more money with the extra sales from base units then the money they make from the pre-configured upgrades .

Depends how much they make on a base unit I guess.

[blodo]

the Pictures is great, really appreciate that seattleboi1982

[gspears]

Originally Posted by blodo

the Pictures is great, really appreciate that seattleboi1982

I agree. Thanks. I'm going to upgrade the memory to 2 gig and want to swap the 1397 card for a 1510.

Was there any secret to getting the palm rest off?

Thanks,

Gary

[meklort]

Originally Posted by macaroni

I haven't seen any mention of this, but can someone confirm if the trackpad is multi-touch like the 1010, and NOT like the 1011 (10v)?

thanks.

It's the same touchpad as the 10v (it's a synaptics touchpad with the same firmware version too).

[Ric]

Originally Posted by meklort

It's the same touchpad as the 10v (it's a synaptics touchpad with the same firmware version too).

That's enough for me to not want one. I cannot stand any of the 10's touchpads. I suppose you can get used to it, but I hate working on them. I bought the latitude 2100 for just this very reason.

[meklort]

The touchpad is actually pretty good if you use synaptics touchpad driver instead of the one dell includes. You can adjust pretty much anything (such as two finger scrolling, tap on the lower right for right clicking, etc).

This is a little on a tangent, but does Dell have something unique here (see pic) My Dell external isn't powered by one usb, but a usb y cable.....any thoughts?

(on the 1012 specs page)

[holmes4]

Unique? No. My LG USB DVD drive uses a single cable. The Y is used when the drive takes more power than one USB outlet can provide. Heck, I saw an Acer (I think) wireless DVD drive packaged with a netbook. I don't know which wireless technology it used.

Originally Posted by holmes4

Unique? No. My LG USB DVD drive uses a single cable. The Y is used when the drive takes more power than one USB outlet can provide. Heck, I saw an Acer (I think) wireless DVD drive packaged with a netbook. I don't know which wireless technology it used.

That's insane....never even occured to me to have a wireless dvd drive....what will they think of next (wonder if you could do installs from it?)

[seattleboi1982]

figured I'd whett your appetite some more. I returned the previous 1012 and ordered one off the dell website with Broadband. my only question is what would i put in the 3rd halfmini PCI-e slot. Pics below: