Mobile Intel® GM965 Express Chipset

Last year in December, I bought a Dell laptop. Inspiron 1525. Core 2Duo 2.0 GHz with 2GB DDR2 RAM. 160GB HDD.
Acutally I bought it as for chatting, watching movies and music stuffs. But I had never thought of playing games on it (except for playing Zuma). Later I foud out that it comes up with Mobile Intel GM965 Express Chipset (usually called Intel x3100) and I am able to play games. It is an Integraded Graphic Cards but it supports up to 384MB memory.
Since I didn't buy this laptop for playing games (thinking that unable to play), every games running on my laptop are gifts.
But it is not fantastic for playing but who cares!!

Dell Inspiron 1525

The Inspiron 1525 is a notebook computer designed and distributed by Dell as part of their Inspiron range.

• Processer : Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T6400 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
• Operating System : Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic Edition SP1
• LCD Panel : Glossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280x800)
• Optical Drive : CD / DVD Writer (DVD+/-RW Drive)
• RAM : 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 (2 Dimms)
• Hard Drive : 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
• Video Card : Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
• Sound Card : High Definition Audio 2.0
• Wireless Networking Card : Dell Wireless 1505 Wireless-N Mini-card
• Battery Option : 6 Cell Battery
  
  

Reception : The Inspiron 1525 has received a great deal of positive attention. General computer users welcomed the relatively low price, as well as the easily accessible volume control keys, and hardware reviewers have praised the customisability of the laptop, as well as its system specifications and light frame.Users have also noted the high quality of the screen, describing the display as "flawless",as well as the inclusion of a webcam and dual headphone jacks.

Well, my point of view is Inspiron 1525 is value money & worth paying for good quality. Only bad thing for me is the weight. It is too heavy for a laptop!

iPod Classic Album Art Loading Issue

I've encountered an issue of my iPod Classic 80GB about showing album art. In the very first times, whenever I sync, everything was ok. But about one month later, music track can't show Album Art (like Nelly Furtado in the pic) when I play music. Actually can show some & some can't. Still don't know the reason.
An article about iPod Classic in Wikipedia also mentioned about this issue.

Then, two months back, I've found and settled this issue. Actually solution is quite simple. iPod classic is using Hard Disk Drive for storage, not using Flash Drive like smaller iPods. So, what I'm trying to say is iPod Classic is a hard disk like in computer but in the form of portable media.

So the solution is as follow....

• Connect your iPod with your computer via USb port
• Close iTune if it auto-runs
• Go to My Computer and right-click on your iPod (which appears as Devices with Removable Storage)
• Then (after right-click) click on Properties & click on Tools tab.
• Then Error-checking, check now & click on two boxes and finally click on.

This process is same as usual Error-Checking to our PC. And this will take about 45mins to 1 and half hour, depends on your iPod size and files usage.

After I did error checking, all the album arts are shown when I play. But sad this is can only shown the newly added songs. Still can't show previously added songs.

If this article helps you a bit, I will be glad to write. :) Cheers