Secondly, my small dell laptop I had was starting to over heat on me. It was clean as a whistle, however it was just hitting around 70C on both cores. Granted it was a small laptop, but still – that isn’t a good temp. So I called Dell and they sent someone to fix the laptop. So the tech comes over for the repair and after the install I noticed both cores are doing a bit better, however now I notice that the wireless switch is stuck. To make a long story short, the wireless switch was broken by the tech who put in a new motherboard. So they sent another motherboard, but it was DOA, so they decided to send out another system! It was upgraded in a few ways – processor, memory, and SSD drive, however I was having some wireless issues. So I proceed to open up the back wireless cover to take a look. This is what I saw:

I then had no choice but to send back the laptop to the Dell depot to get repaired. Around a week later the laptop came back, but now it has a hairline scratch on the back LCD cover. So then I call and get that part from Dell and I repair it on my own.

The last thing that happened was the fact I traded in my modded high HP car for a more economy car. Granted I will miss it, but getting around 28 MPG+ on the highway is awesome instead of 19 or so

So hopefully that is it for a while

A quick breakdown of the Red Vostro 3400…in short, was sent back due to a couple of issues: 1) construction and 2) electrical shock

More about 1:

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Some have stated that they don’t have issues, others do have it, but it wasn’t that bad. For me, it wasn’t bad enough to warrant a return. However I felt like number 2, was an issue since I was just using the system one day and out of the blue I felt a light buzzing feeling on the top of the notebook. It almost felt like a short. No one else reported this, but I had it. Therefore the laptop was sent back and I am currently still using my old and now having issues D430…

I will talk briefly about the construction and the how it feels/fits in.

Anyway, ever since I sold pretty much everything I had to make some money, I was left in a void of nothing.

I sold the Alienware for a custom AMD system and OC’d it to 3.6 GHz. The camera was never really replaced, as well as the camcorder, but I can make due for now. So the only left was the laptop. I sold a Dell e6400 for a nice price on ebay, but I was wondering what to get next. After looking around around for some time I found the vostro series.

The vostro series, to me anyway, was something in between a inspiron and a latitude. So therefore I never really looked into it, and just never crossed my mind…until recently. When I saw the new 3000 series, I was impressed with the looks, and the colors of the system. So I decided to try it out and I placed my order with my account rep. A few days later, I thought I made a mistake, and cancelled it cause on outlet, they had a nice studio xps 16 for almost the same price. However I was too late and the I wanted was gone. So I replaced the order again. The problem now was the color choice. Red, being the color I wanted, was on backorder for at least 10 days at the time (now 8). So now I had a wait.

The wait wasn’t that bad, but I really hate waiting…

Order Date: 3/25/2010

3/25: Pre-production
3/26: Pre-production
3/27: Pre-production
3/28: Pre-production
3/29: Pre-production
3/30: In Production – build stage
3/31: In Production – build stage
4/1: In Production – build stage
4/2: In Production – build stage
4/3: In Production – boxing stage
4/4: In Production – boxing stage
4/5: In Production – boxing stage
4/6: Shipped!!!

These are my specs:

224-8458 Vostro 3400 Laptop
317-3846 New 2010 Intel Core i5-520M (2.40GHz, Turbo Boost up to 2.93GHz, Dual Core/4T, 3MB/L3) Vostro
317-3852 4GB,DDR3,1066MHZ, 2 DIMM Vostro
330-8216 Dell Keyboard 86 Backlit English Vostro
330-8088 Vostro Documentation and Documentation Tech Sheet Setup English
313-9450 Nvidia Geforce 310M, 512MB Graphics Vostro
342-9965 320GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive Vostro
421-2281 Dell,Software,Digital Persona Inc,Fingerprint Reader,4.0,Factory Install, Vostro
330-8224 Palmrest with Fingerprint reader Winery 14 Vostro
320-8919 14.0 inch High Definition LED Display (1366 x 768) with anti-glare Vostro
421-1553 Windows 7 Home Premium, Media, 32-bit, Notebook, Vostro, English
330-6322 Genuine Windows 7 Label, Latitude, Vostro and Mobile Precision Notebooks
421-0320 Windows Live Search,Multiple User Interface,SMB
421-2231 Dell Data Back-up and Recovery Manager for WinXP,Vostro
330-8236 Dell Resource DVD, Vostro 3400
330-8223 90W AC Adapter for Vostro
430-3747 Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth 2.1 Module Vostro
313-9428 8X DVD+/-RW with double-layer DVD+/-R write capability, Vostro
421-2223 Cyberlink Power DVD 8.3 Vostro
421-1188 Roxio Creator Dell Edition 10.3 Media Vostro
421-1006 Dell Webcam Software 1.4 Application Kit Vostro
313-9468 Bezel, LCD, with Camera Winery 14
313-9457 Lucerne Red Vostro
313-9463 Lucerne RED with DVD+/-RW Vostro
410-1736 Trend Micro 16.6 PC-cillin Internet Security, English 30-day, Subscription, for DellVostro DT and NB
312-0995 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery for Vostro
421-9888 No Productivity Software Vostro
925-3810 Basic Support: Next Business Day Parts and Labor Onsite Response Initial Year
908-8047 Dell Hardware Limited Warranty Plus Onsite Service Initial Year
988-7347 No Warranty beyond 1 year
983-3920 Warranty Support,Initial Year
900-9987 Standard On-Site Installation Declined
986-5010 CompleteCare Accidental Damage Protection, 1 Year
988-7689 Info, Complete Care
468-4927 Lucerne RED Vostro

Accuweather: Snow occurring on Feb 25 | Feb 26. Total amount 7.2 Inches.

Noaa: Expect accumulations to range from 12 to 18 inches.

So we will soon see….

Looks like I maybe saving for a new “toy” for the end of the year

PS I guess I can try ebay, but I don’t think that would help either…

We will soon see though. We didn’t think the iPod and iPhone would be a success, but now look at it…

Anyone interested, please proceed to the following page:

https://accounts.craigslist.org/post/shwpst?pii=1575922884&db=lv

Honestly, I am very sad, but I need to do things to better myself and family.

I migrated my router to a Linux security appliance from a windows server box. Therefore cutting my electric bill since I don’t need to have a computer on all the time (over 200 watts a day).

I am currently selling my iPhone 3GS 32GB on craigs if anyone is interested. I wasn’t really using the data anyway and it was just costing me more, and more money. So I just picked up a non-smart phone and I am happy so far with it.

I hope to get more involved with the blog once again, just need to finish off a few more things.