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    XPS 15 Sound

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by rogsh, Jun 5, 2011.

  1. rogsh

    rogsh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi everyone:

    I would like to know which are the settings that you use on the Xps 15 for the sound... I haven't managed to get the best sound of it because I don't know which settings would be the best... I got the X-Fi option...

    Any help would be appreciate it :)

    Oh and one more thing... is it ok that I got a 680gb hard drive besides I ordered a 750gb? hehe

    Thanks and regards!
     
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  2. joeaux

    joeaux Notebook Geek

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    Heh. Music and the way it sounds is a purely subjective thing. Set it the way it sounds best to you! As far as the hard drive. It's not that big a deal with the size of the drive, it's how fast it is. The 750 is a 7200 rpm drive. it's pretty quick for a mechanical drive. I don't know how fast yours is. The speed of a mechanical drive can make a difference depending on how you use your laptop.
    -joe-
     
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    VivienM Notebook Enthusiast

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    You got a 750GB.

    The discrepancy is due to two things:
    a) Hidden recovery partition taking up 15 gigs.
    b) The fact that Windows (unlike the newest version of OS X, but like every sane operating system) uses the traditional definitions, whereby a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes, and a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, and a kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Hard drive manufacturers pretend that a gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, a megabyte is a 1000 kilobytes, and a kilobyte is 1000 byte.
    So your 750GB drive (by the hard drive industry's definition) is really a 699GB (by everybody else's definition).

    This is not new, I remember having a '420 meg' hard drive back in 1995, and DOS/Win3.1 thought it was 407 megs.
     
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    rogsh Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for your replies... oh ok ok, I was worried I got a hard drive with less capacity hehe... yes mine is 7200 rpm too...

    Now that I see you're right about the sound... is very subjective... so I'll keep trying different settings...

    If anyone has some kind of advice, would be much appreciated...

    Thanks again!
     
    rogsh, Jun 5, 2011
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