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Old 04-25-04, 07:53 AM   #6 (permalink)
Odie2004
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plmagis, sorry if my reply was a bit blunt.

The one that is in the review is the X3i (non BT).

After seeing that the author of the review had much lower benchmark scores than I did, I contacted him and found out that the review was written in January (before some of the update patches and the ROM update that Dell put up and then pulled a few weeks ago). I provided two sets of benchmark results that I made on my X3i BT on the day I recieved it, and he added it to the review.

Back to the WLAN utility, I agree that it would have been nice to keep the same interface for all the X3i models. I had a difficult time figuring out why I couldn't follow instructions on discovering the X3i's Wi-Fi MAC address from various posts on the forums.

One thing that annoys me about the X3i BT is that the Wireless on-off button turns both BT and Wi-Fi on, and there's no option to map it so that it turns only one or the other on. I did e-mail Dell with the suggestion, but I guess they didn't bother implementing it for the small (crappy?) update that they released a few weeks ago. (they apparently fixed "some wording" in the BT help file.... a bit lame isn't it?)

- Odie
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