First post, by Zack_H
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Very proud of this machine:
This was the first one of these Dell Inspiron 8000-series notebooks I got. These quickly became my absolute favorite early 2000s PC laptops. They have very high-end specs, and beautiful high-res displays.
If you are very observant, you'll notice that the blue on the setup screen looks very-vibrant; that is because I have installed an UltraSharp panel in this that came from an Inspiron 8200! I found an NOS UltraSharp panel for my 8200, so this 8000 got the old one. The UltraSharp (which is Dell's fancy word for an IPS display), was only offered on the Latitude C840/Inspiron 8200, it was never an option on the 8000.
This screen runs at 1600 x 1200, versus the 1400 x 1050 that the original panel ran at. The 8000 did have a 1600 x 1200 option (which my other has), but it wasn't an IPS display.
I had always wanted to do this, and wasn't entirely sure if it would work, but it most certainly does!
I have also upgraded the CPU from an 800MHz to a 900MHz (not a huge difference, but I already had it on-hand, so why not?).
I also upgraded the ATi M4 graphics card to an Nvidia GeForce2GO from a broken Inspiron 8100.
Also popped on my gray palmrests, which are NOS. Love the removable palmrests on these machines.
For software, I'm running some different stuff than I normally do: Windows Millennium Edition (which is what this machine originally shipped with), and Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1a. I had vanilla XP on here, but had a few issues with it, so I updated it to SP1a. Runs very good on here, as does Windows Me.
That's all for now. I'll add some more to this later.....
Starting Windows 95. . .