[Preview + Feedback] Digit October 2006

[FatBeing]

October 2006 Magazine Contents

Cover Story
Notable Portables
Looking for an ultra-portable for work on the go? How about a replacement for your desktop? Whatever your need, Digit finds you the best out of 43 laptops

Digital Passion

Test Centre
Blazing Angels
Sixty-five graphics cards vie for your attention—casual or hardcore, no gamer should miss this test!

Lead Feature
God Mode
Build your own game from scratch with FPS Creator. Then hack it to shake off that “factory” feel

Tomorrow
Recycool!
How does your processor stop itself from generating too much heat? Instead of “throwing away” bits, the reversible computer will keep them handy for later use!

In Sight
A New DirectXion
What’s so special about DirectX 10? How will it change the world? Will it even change anything? All these questions and some answers ahead!

Digital Tools

Enhance
The Best Yahoo! Widgets
It’s true! You can get plenty of use out of those cute little mini-applications on your Desktop

Main Story
The Ultimate Home Jukebox
Is your PC old? Does it cry every time you start a programme? Oil those rusty chips now, and turn the Ancient One into your very own jukebox!

Agent 001
If you’re heading the market for a new LCD Monitor, don’t leave without your monthly consultation with our trusty Agent

Digital Business

Tech Careers
Slash And Burn
Shooting movies is only the first step—to turn it into a crowd-puller, you need to work some magic and special effects into it. Here’s how you can make a career in the thrill-a-minute world of movie post-production

Smart Business
Down To Earth
Google Earth is doing a lot more for people than just providing desktop tourism—businesses all over the world are learning that it can help them get things done faster. You should too!

Face Off
How do you feel about your employees Orkut-ting (or MySpace-ing, or whatever) at work? Two top honchos compare opinions

Digital Leisure

Lead Feature
Of Brands And Brawn
Do shiny new "status-symbol" gadgets turn you on? How about looking at what you need, for a change?

Game On
Reviewed This Month:
Call Of Juarez
Darkstar One
Prey
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October 06 DVD / CD Contents

Digital Passion
Games
Call of Juarez Multiplayer Demo
Joint Task Force
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade Demo

Developer Tools
MySQL 5.1 Beta
Oracle Database XE
E-XD++MFC Library Enterprise V9.80
Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition 32-bit X86
Revolution Studio
SQL Tool
Websmartz Website Builder, Flash Intros 2.1
XMLobjective Evaluation with JRE 1.4
FPS Creator


CASL 4.3
J2ME Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0
J2SE(TM) Development Kit 5.0 Update 8
Jana Server 2.4.7.39
MySQL GUI Tools
Advanced Query Tool
IntelliJ IDEA


Linux
Audacious Music Player 1.1.2
Banshee
Clean Karamba CPU 1.0
Gobby 0.3.1
Google Earth for Linux
Gparted
Grip 3.3.1
Ktorrent
Xine 1.1.2


Bon Echo Alpha 3 milestone
Drupal
Freetalk 0.69
Installer 2
KBackup 0.4
PHP 5.1.6
Skype for Linux 1.3 BETA
Wing IDE Professional v. 2.1.2


Digital Tools

Essentials

Avast Home Edition 4.7
Avast Update
Digit Software Archive 2006 Beta (includes .net framework 2.0)
Foxit PDF Reader 1.3 build 1621
Irfan View 3.98
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.58
Opera 9.01
Spybot Search and Destroy 1.4
Spybot Search and Detection updates
VLC Media Player 0.8.5
Winamp 5.24
WinRAR 3.60
ZoneAlarm 6.5.737


Multimedia
Acala 3GP Movies Free 2.3.3
AudioLab 2.2.1
Aurora Media Workshop 3.3.17
AutoRun Design Specialty 5.0.8.9
Beyond TV 4
Focus Photoeditor 5.1.1
Grass Valley EDIUS Pro v4 NLE Software Demo
Movie Library 1.3 build 259
SWiSH Studio2
TMPGEnc XPress 4.2.1.188


Catalencoder
JetPhoto Studio 3.2.2
Mixvibes Free 6
Anim FX
AutoImager
Orion Pro 7
Photolightning 4.5
Zbrush


Internet
ICQ 5.1
Robust FTP and Download Manager
SurveillizCam Lite 1.16
There 2.6
Forte Agent 4.0/32.1071
Internet TV and Radio Player 3.4.0.0
Spam Filter ISP 2.7.1.532
TracePlus Ethernet 5.15.000
WebcamMax 2.1.0.8
WinProxy 6.1 R1b


Ella for Spam Control
IPN Video Client 1.6
Omea Reader
Pop up Blocker 6.0.5c
Proxy+
SeaMonkey 1.1 Alpha
Anonymizer Software
DU Meter 3.07 build 200
Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall


System
ATI Catalyst 6.8
FlyakiteOSX v3.5
Norton Antivirus Definitions Update
NVIDIA Forceware 91.47
Unlocker 1.8.5
Vista Transformation Pack 5.5
Genie Backup Manager Pro 7.0.138.309
Nero Burning ROM 7.2.7.0
Panda Internet Security 2007


CDCheck 3
File Recovery 4
Nero CD-DVD Speed
Smart Recovery 4.5
Actual Transparent Window 4.1
Advanced System Optimizer 2.10
Recover My Files
Trend Micro Pattern File 3.697.00


Digital Business

Productivity Tools
PrimoPDF 3
WordWeb 4.5a
Almyta Inventory Control System 2.90.29
authorPOINT Version 3.6
Check&Drive 2.45.433
FileMaker Pro
Internet Caffe 5.3.1
SurveyGold Standard Edition 7.0.9
WinPure Clean & Match 2006 1.3
Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional 3.1.6


ArGoSoft Mail Server
PDF Creator v3.0
PowerPoint to Video 1.3.1
Alchemy Eye 8.2
Business Productivity Kit
CMailServer
Merak Mail Server
SyncBackSE


Mobile Apps
ActiveSync 4.2
Graffiti Anywhere v1.5.8
VH PocketPC Capture v0.9 Beta for Smartphone
Agile Messenger 3 ALPHA for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone and Smartphone 2003
eOffice Professional Edition
i.Xchange Mobile Partner - MT-A02-1 2
Idokorro Mobile Admin 3.2.41
MobTime Cell Phone Manager 2006 6.1
MyJAL MediaPal 3
Party-Pro


Minutes of Meeting 4.0 Beta
myCodes lite 1.3
Pocket Antivirus 7.0.0
Skype for Pocket PC 2.0
Webby Mobile 2.5
WiFi Graph 0.3 RC3
PwdMaster 1.1
SimWorks Anti-Virus S60 1.3


Digital Leisure

Videos
The Scene Season 2 Episodes 1-7


Confetti
School For Scoundrels
The Last Kiss


Movies
Four Episodes of The Three Stooges
Movie of the Month: Escape from Sobibor

Small Games
Air Strike II: Gulf Thunder
Bonnie's Bookstore
Diner Dash 2
Luxor: Amun Rising
Mahjong Escape
Star Defender 2
Talismania
Virtual Villagers


3 Foot Ninja
Cannon Blast
Danger From The Deep v0.1.1
PaintBall
Snake
Verti Golf 2


E-Books
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth by Michael Martinez
Rapunzel by The Brothers Grimm
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Fast Track To Digital Video

[Third Eye]

Great ! but i have already downloaded all these things. :D:D:D:D

[s18000rpm]

@FatBeing THANK YOU VERY MUCH for Providing the "THE THREE STOOGEs episodes.

[soham]

Was expecting a motherboard review. Anyways looking forward to the graphics card review. 65 cards seem to be a huge lot.

[aditya.shevade]

Nothig too special. You could do better.

[kaustav_geek]

Great contents!
Seems like the retransformation of digit has begun atlast(since last issue). Articles seem to be getting better from the august issue. So far so good. I feel that this issue will be better than all digit issues in the past 1 yr. Last issue was fantabulous, this issue 'seems' better as far as the preview is concerned.
Looking fwd to it.

[nik_for_you]

nice contents..

[Third Eye]

Magazine is looking good.
Next time review more games !

[Kiran_tech_mania]

Looks good. Fast Track to Digital Video would be interesting. I recently posted few threads on Video editing software. I think Oct issue will solve all my problems! Wonderful Digit! You read our minds well...
Cheers to FATBEING aswell!

[QwertyManiac]

Middle Earth books again? Ah crap!

[debopriyo]

Contents are good, but why DiGit is'nt giving out full GNU/Linux/BSD Distros anymore?

Fedora Core 6 is almost ready (releasing on 11th OCT) can we expect it on November?(PLZ give a bootable install DVD this time).

[clmlbx]

good contents but can anyone explain me why digit has included nero 7.2 when a nero 7.5 is out , digit should have given nero 7.5 reloaded . This is just wasting space many have demanded nero 7.5 reloded ( latest ) .

[~Phenom~]

Contents are good, but why DiGit is'nt giving out full GNU/Linux/BSD Distros anymore?

Fedora Core 6 is almost ready (releasing on 11th OCT) can we expect it on November?(PLZ give a bootable install DVD this time). completely agree.

[SE><IE]

LCD coverage by Agent 001, Graphics cards battle. I need a graphics card and a LCD (solaris thinks my 5 year old kid has got old)

[hsnayvid]

looking forward to the issue!

[ratedrsuperstar]

Yeah you should give all the latest stuff.that's one reason i buy digit.Mag rocks but it's the cd/dvd contents which are not up the mark in the past 4 issues.Hope for some improvement in the essentials and internet sections.

firefox alpha3 is not good enough,u should have given beta2.

[soham]

Software are preety old. Why give winamp 5.24 when 5.25 has been out for a long time.

[QwertyManiac]

5.3 is out now ^^
Lol you guys update winamp and care for the version number? LMAO

[soham]

i know winamp 5.3 is out. I just meant that it was possible for digit to provide winamp 5.25

[g_suresh_mps]

waiting 4 rivew on laptops !!! got it on oct 2006 issue

[Ankur Gupta]

Magazine contents are looking good but CD/DVD has dissappointed me as usual....Suse10 or Fedora Core6 shud be included in nxt month DVD..

[Third Eye]

Hope November cd/dvd contains useful things for us !

[g_goyal2000]

Great ! but i have already downloaded all these things. :D:D:D:D Well me too buddy. Have a fast internet connection at my institute. Speeds upto 85 kbps. A 150 MB file downloads in an hour.
Was expecting a motherboard review. Anyways looking forward to the graphics card review. 65 cards seem to be a huge lot. They should start doing mobo & graphics card reviews more often. There are new mobos & display cards in the market every 1-2 months
Hope November cd/dvd contains useful things for us ! Same here.
Looking forward to more game reviews. I think they should provide demo versions of games they review each month. Atleast the end-user will be satisfied cos sometimes reviews are not just enough

[rajivnedungadi]

got the october issue yestarday. the laptop reviews are cool

[techno_funky]

muhahahahaha just when i was about to by a GPU card we have a GPU card review yay!!! :D

[tinku dhar]

this time tooooo

our DIGIT seems to be very Borin :(

[nithinks]

fast Track is too good...

[Neeraj Singh]

i am very angry .....................why ??....................
please tell me what is the good reason for not including IE7 RC1
in this issue of digit ..........................
You guys are always late..........I know, You will give it somewhere in middle of november..........................Atleast tell me

[blackpearl]

Just saw the cover page; models are here again ;)
I hope nobody has problems again with her strapless top and short skirts. LOL!!

[soham]

i am very angry .....................why ??....................
please tell me what is the good reason for not including IE7 RC1
in this issue of digit ..........................
You guys are always late..........I know, You will give it somewhere in middle of november..........................Atleast tell me

Digit doesnt come out with any issue in the middle of the month.
:p

[Tech&ME]

Hope the reviews are to the mark.

Lets hope for the better.:confused:

[anshul]

Do I expect a load of wallpapers from digit in the next issue or start looking for counter measures. I have not seen muh of them since you started giving those movies?

[ratedrsuperstar]

I was really shocked to see digit this time it was freakin awesome man.way better than last 3 issues.I think business has just picked up folks!

[FatBeing]

Thanks, and we'd like to know more...what did you like? What didn't you like?

@all:
Remember, just making blanket statements like "This issue sucked" or "This issue was awesome" doesn't really help much, and that's the entire purpose of these threads.

[Third Eye]

Can you give 2DVD's next month ?

[Apollo]

Being a somewhat of an LotR nut, I have to point out that Humphrey Carpenter's biography & Shippey's books are more valuable than Martinez' Parma Endorion; all the so-called essays included in his book can be encountered in the LotR-Trilogy & The Silmarillion.

[rajasekharan]

beautiful, beautiful, beautiful......u give me "zbrush".....beautiful.....:)
and i liked the letter about piracy....
yes, the s/w people need to price according to the economy of the country, then only they can say "Stop Piracy"....until then...."piracy Rulez!!!!!"...:)
by the way....the fast track was also excellent.......thanks a lot for the hard work done by your side...:)
especially for the graphic card shoot out

[g_goyal2000]

Got the magazine yesterday from newsstand.
And was very disappointed. By what??
Well, the magazine of course.
Was never interested in this month's CD & DVD which were both missing from my pack (yes, both). Only got the magazine, Fast track & a blank jewel case.
Have wrote to the Digit Helpdesk regarding the issue with no response as of now.
Anyway, I was hoping that graphics card test drive would also include AGP cards. But alas, no AGP cards.
I would like to mention to the Digit Team that still most of the PC's here in India (or shall I say World) still have AGP slots which the Digit Team has clearly forgotten. Even if the vendors didn't send them the AGP cards themselves, they should have asked for them specifically later.
It would have been no problem if they had published the test drive a month later i.e. in November 2006 but it should have complete.
They didn't even mention that whether in future we can expect a test drive on AGP cards too.
125 bucks down the drain.
I demand that they publish a test drive on AGP cards in November or December 2006 issue.

[soham]

Ok FatBeing you want to know more, you get it. First of all let me congratulate you on bringing out a fantastic graphics card review. This is how it ought to be. This was something which was missing in the last few issues. But I still have some complaints:

1. You could have brought some varity to the test by pairing the cards is SLI and cross-fire mode. This would have really helped the high end gamers.
2. The maximum resolution used for testing the high end cards is 1600*1200 which I think is not at all the resolution that high end gamers use. You also totally leave out on WideScreen resolutions.
3. You could have used HDR while testing the games. Tests on Quake 4 would have been appreciated.

Suggestions:

1. Please try to provide the street prices of whatever you review below thier box prices. This would give us a true idea of the price and what we can afford.
2. Please use 2GB of RAM to test the high end cards as this has now-a-days become a norm to use 2GB or more RAM to bring forth the true potential of these cards.

I hope you people are listening and please try to reply.

Finally keep up the good work and keep getting better.

:p

[GunshotSilence]

POOR LAPTOP RESEARCH

i was eagerly awaiting ur october issue when i saw it on the news-stand. it fascinated me because of 2 thing- the laptop shootout and the "career in post-production" as i want to buy one and i was researching laptops for the past 1 month on the net and in local shops and had contacted all 10-12 laptop making companies in india (thanks to u for featuring their ads and contact nos. in various issues) and i am interested in a career in multimedia(sound/video recording and editting/post-production)

but i was dissapointed because u havent done ur research well on the laptop shootout & more info on post-production cud b given,

first u failed to mention the following things

1-dell is the only company in india which allows laptop customization and lets u build with ur own configuration to suit ur needs and budget and also provied complete cover and replaces the whole laptop incase of water spills, drops ,etc.

2-dell is the only company providing core2duo laptops in the series, which no other laptop companies are doing at the moment and the inspiron 9400 with nvidia go7900GS

customize laptops here http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks_in?c=in&l=en&s=bsd

or goto www.dell.co.in

which is cheaper than the sony in the "desktop replacement" category.

3-and even with the core2duo and the following configuration, inspiron 6400 stays below the 70000 mark.

CORE2DUO T5500 1.66 667MHZ FSB
xp sp2 home
1024*1=1GB DDR2 667MHZ DUAL CHANNEL
ATI Mobility 1400 256mb
120GB 5400 /80gb 7200rpm HDD
15.4"WXGA SCREEN
90w adapter
large backpack

atleast u shud have reviewed the core2duo inspiron 6400 model separately

4-u failed to mention HP dv6114tx in the "usual suspects" which is a good model with MCE 2005 and the latest in the 6000 series in India so muchso that a google search of "hp pavilion dv6114tx" returns just 1 search

there many forums on the net like "www.notebookreviews.com" ,etc. about which u shud have mentioned as extra resources

and as for the goofs

the "hitachi hdd" ad features a "flash based sandisk mp3 player" as comparison. shouldnt they be showing a "hdd based mp3 player"

also i expected more on the topic of "career in digital post-production" like
the pay, work involved and the recruiting companies and news channels, field of sound engineering

also u failed to mention the "SAE-school of audio engineering" college with branches in mumbai, delhi, chennai, etc. with reputed facutly like SP Balasubramaniam for audio engineering

and the course fees and courses offered by various colleges
__________
also mobile gpus shud have been included in the review since u were already testing laptops
__________
why not give a bumper december issue with
all prodcts shootout?

like u had a gpu shootout this month, why not have a shootout of all products from cpu's to hdd's?? it wud mean ntimes more work 4 u nd double price 4 the december issue but im sure its possible

[s18000rpm]

@fatbeing, man i was so surprised when you PUT the The Three Stooges Episodes, but after watching it, it was a bit dissapointing. the video was very low in qyality.
You guys can provide high quality videos.
& most importantly Next time if you put the Three Stooges Episodes, Please & pretty please include ONLY the ones which FEATURE CURLY & not Shemp. (one of the three stooges)

[aryayush]

First and foremost, why weren't Apple MacBooks and MacBook Pros included in the laptop shootout? And why was there absolutely no news about the launch of the new iMac lineup with Intel Core 2 Duo processors? You haven't reported anything about Mac OS X Leopard and you haven't covered the launch of the new range of iPods. It would have been fine and dandy had you been ignoring Apple completely but you are always quick to report whom Apple is blaming for copying their features or whom they are suing. I know you have always favoured Microsoft and do not pay much attention to Apple (except for the iPods), but this is just too much. You could at least have taken the trouble of pitting the Apple notebooks against the competition to see how they fared.
This issue was a total waste of money anyway. The only articles I found worth reading were: Editorial, War for search, The Best Yahoo! Widgets, The Ultimate Home Jukebox, Agent 001, Notable Portables, Of Brands and Brawn, Game On: Prey, Tabloid Tech and the Regulars. It did not even take me twenty minutes to finish the magazine. And this time I did not even have the Fast Track to look forward to. I know it is pretty subjective but I really don't care about Digital Video (and most average people don't either). The DVD/CD were useless too. I did not even break open the seal. You should provide us with full Linux distros and the like, things that take a long time to download.
I have always bought the mag from newsstands without even looking at the cover for the past two years but after the huge disappointment of this issue, I have to be selective in the future. After all, a hundred and twenty five bucks is a lot of money if it buys you just twenty minutes of reading pleasure.

[rajivnedungadi]

The magazine contents look ok, but the Disc contents are not as good as that of previous months

[Sourabh]

[B]but i was dissapointed because u havent done ur research well on the laptop shootout & more info on post-production cud b given,

first u failed to mention the following things

1-dell is the only company in india which allows laptop customization and lets u build with ur own configuration to suit ur needs and budget and also provied complete cover and replaces the whole laptop incase of water spills, drops ,etc.

2-dell is the only company providing core2duo laptops in the series, which no other laptop companies are doing at the moment and the inspiron 9400 with nvidia go7900GS



It has a lot to do with the fact that products are reviewed which the manufacturers provide for shoot-out and not the other way around to the best I know. Dell probably wanted a more 'powerful' feature packed laptop and hence they provided a fairly hi-end T2600. The shootout must have been done quite a while ago, and considering meroms have just made their way in the past month - you can forgive digit for that.

I liked the laptop shootout. It was fairly comprehensive and covered most brands in different form factors.

[soham]

None of the laptops had a core 2 duo processor not even the Sony blu-ray one. This shows the tests are already outdated. The core 2 duo must have permformed much better than the core duo ones.

[hafees]

I liked the contents of magazine but DVD is not very useful. i think you should upgrade your dvd to dual layer. and hopefully it should packed with free online videos, pictures, mobile themes, ring tones, etc etc

[Tapomay]

Another disappointing issue........

No good software accompaning with Fast Track (Latest ver. of Ulead Video Studio, Pinnacle Video Studio were released a long ago),/ Wrong version of 'Beyond TV4' included. Included version is for networked PCs./ Old ver. softwares are provided (New ver. of Nero was released on 18th Sept. but the DVD has a older ver. Please provide the new one next month with .chm help files.

Description:
Language: English
Filename: Nero-7.5.1.1_eng.exe
Release Date: September 18th, 2006
Installable Until: November 30th, 2006
Trial Period: 30 Days after installation
Filesize: 189,16 MB ( 198.350.040 bytes )
MD5 checksum: 2739cb62ccd4aed3cca2285525a2456c
Link: ftp://209.170.95.40/software/nero7/Nero-7.5.1.1_eng.exe )

[blackpearl]

I liked the article "Of Brands and Brawn". People need to understand this very thing that the most popular brands isn't always the best. Companys spend millions of rupees each year on ads just because people are so easily fooled by what is shown in the TV. Not very long ago some MNC paid Sachin Tendulkar Rs 180 crores for endorsing their product. What the heck!! 180 crores!! Obviously a company can afford to spend such an obscene amount because they know that the return will be much higher. As long as consumers continue to buy products just because Sachin Tendulakar or Shah Rukh Khan (the king of over-acting) tells them to buy it, we are going to see more such wastage of money through such star-contracts. Hell!! its our money that the companys are wasting on ads.

I wish more such articles were published in more magazines to increase consumer awareness.

[Lucifer]

Soham....here are the reasons for all your burning questions...

1. 1600 x 1200 is the perfect resolution for high end testing (unless multi GPU is being used) simply because games stutter at anything higher.. The objective of any test is relativity of performance, not to measure the minimum fps that a card can churn out.

2. Also try running a 19 inch monitor at 1600x1200. Sure the monitor supports it, but you'll need to disable most of the eyecandy in games like FEAR (by eye candy I'm talking AA and AF, HDR, soft shadows etc) simply because the card won't be able to handle them. Once again we test at settings which achieve the best compromise between fps and visuals which is the eternal dilemma faced by all gamers. A game looks better at 1280x1024 with 4x AA and 8x AF than at 1600x1200 with all these settings off. I hope you get my drift here....

3. HDR has been used for farcry, splinter cell and FEAR.... DOOM 3 doesn't support HDR with SM3. I hope you realise that SM3 is a direct X effect while DOOM 3 is Open GL

4. Widescreen - well most games that we tested don't support widescreen natively, if at all. Farcry does support widescreen, but well let me ask you, how many widescreen gamers exist among our audience? Yes the numbers are on the rise, with widescreen TFT's, but a major chunk of people still opt for CRT's (no widescreen there) or regular TFT's. Maybe a couple of years down the line widescreen resolutions would make more sense, when a majority of gamers and games are using them.

5. Quake 4 is a very CPU bound game. i.e. it doesn't really scale well. I hope you realise we don't just wake up one day and go "ooh lets test graphics cards this month", we tried at least 10 games before finalising on the 4-5 most feasible ones. To further clarify, our initial tests on Quake 4 got nearly similar scores across cards in similar categories (with the usual Nvidia - ati differences of course). Additionally DOOM 3, Quake 4 and Prey use the same DOOM 3 engine, which has been optimised on the latter two games.

[eggman]

I hate to say it but Digit Sucks
They've rated Dell Inspiron 6400 as the best noebook.
But see the configuration for the same laptop in the Magazine and in Dell's Website(http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks_in?c=in&l=en&s=bsd). Different configuration for same laptop?????????????
Now don't say that Website is wrong.....
This shows how detailed Digit reviews are.... they just copy paste the config(wrong ones too...) and rate it..... Shame on u digit

[Com Warrior]

Fedora Core 6 Plz.....
__________
I hate to say it but Digit Sucks
They've rated Dell Inspiron 6400 as the best noebook.
But see the configuration for the same laptop in the Magazine and in Dell's Website(http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks_in?c=in&l=en&s=bsd) (http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks_in?c=in&l=en&s=bsd%29). Different configuration for same laptop?????????????
Now don't say that Website is wrong.....
This shows how detailed Digit reviews are.... they just copy paste the config(wrong ones too...) and rate it..... Shame on u digit

Hey Mind your words Buddy:mad: --- There' re some real Digit Patron's around.....

"WHY DON'T U CHECK THE LINK U POSTED FIRST"

Not Workin --- http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks_in?c=in&l=en&s=bsd (http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks_in?c=in&l=en&s=bsd%29)

[amit67]

Hello

Dell inspiron 6400 price what u have listed is wrong.


Thanks

Amit

[kumargautam2003]

I ordered a dell core 2 duo inspiron 6400 from the dell website on 16th october
It came in my home on 3rd november,
Everything in place and all the configuration and stuff as customized on the website.
The engg from dell came and did the honors, of openening the package.

The config is
Dell Inspiron 6400 Code-N541006
1. Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 Duo Processor 2 GHZ, 4MB Cache, 667 MHZ FSB (Originaly it was 1.66 GHz 2 MB Cache Core Duo)
2. 512 MB (1 x 512 MB) DDR2 SDRAM
3. 80 GB SATA Hard Drive (Originaly it was 60 GB)
4. 8X DVD+/-RW Combination Drive dual layer write capabilities (Originaly it was 24x DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive)
5. 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon (R) X1300 Hypermemory
6. Wireless 355 Bluetooth Module
7. Wireless Network Intel (R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Dual Band 54 MBPS
8. 15.4" WXGA TFT Display (1280 x 800 res)
9. Windows(R) XP Home Edition with CD Media
10. Carry case nylon case


Cost was exactly 63,485

Thank you digit!!

[manishji]

I bought the magazine for two reasons
1. The movie Escape from sobibor-i remember it watching it long back and it was worth every penny for a second dekko
2. the laptop surview-i have finalised the dell lappy
however a question remains. why no Lenovo laptops were checked Fatbeing?
thanks for the help

[FatBeing]

We did approach Lenovo for their contenders, but as a policy, they don't send laptops for comparison tests.

[Apollo]

I found this month's FT to Open Source Software an informative read. If not a comprehensive one, it's still a good basic guide to some of the popular OSS alternatives available out there.

Much appreciation!

[Kiran_tech_mania]

I am a subscriber to Digit. I need a clarification regarding delivery of my copies. Should I pay extra bucks for the December Issue?

[$atya]

october 06 issue was simply great !! but.....i hav lost my oct 06 cd ?? where can i get all the cd contents ???????
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buttttttt....... !! i hav lost my oct 06 cd !!