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Ha--unfortunately, I already returned the laptop. I never thought to check any sort of power-saving settings because most laptops disable those measures when running on the AC adapter. It's a bummer but at the end of the day I felt that I had to return it even if I found a workaround. $1500 should buy a machine that can play audio under any power conditions, not just at full throttle. I am glad to hear that you solved your problem, though. Enjoy the new machine!
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Have you checked to make sure that you're set to record from the microphone and not the line-in? Look at your recording settings using the Windows volume mixer or the sound control panel.
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Firefox 3 also has a zoom feature. It is designed not to cause horizontal scrolling (unlike IE7, the zoom feature in which always causes it). I think that where you got into trouble was adjusting the font size only and not zooming the entire page? The disadvantage to FF's zoom is that you had to re-zoom each new domain. Opera's fit-to-width feature does sound like a great idea.
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I'm no forum expert, but as a general matter, I'd first consider whether you need to update your driver. Are you having problems with your current Dell X3100 drivers? If not, then I'd heed the warnings and wait for Dell to roll out an update. If you're having a problem that the latest Intel driver purports to fix, then go for it.
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What's the MDC driver? The modem, I'm guessing?
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I have a brand new Latitude D830 and the audio skips at the drop of a hat. Here's some background: Configuration : Intel C2D T7500 2.2GHz 2 GB RAM Quadro NVS 135M 128MB video 120 GB 7200 rpm hard drive WSXGA+ display Dell 1395 b/g wireless Dell 360 Bluetooth Windows XP SP3 Docked to a D/port with USB2 hard drive attached History : The factory configuration gave me error messages on every shutdown, so I did the following: 1. Updated the BIOS to version A13 2. Reformatted and reloaded Windows XP SP2