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Maximizing your battery’s life cycle

Thomas — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:24:50 +0000

Admit it: the Inspiron 1525 is an aging laptop. For many of you, it’s probably pushing its third year. Laptop batteries, much like most Dell laptops, only have a 1-year life expectancy. After that first year, their capacity begins to slowly decrease. For anyone still using the original battery, I laud you; mine stopped holding […]

Hardware Mod: Upgrading your Wireless Card- How To

Thomas — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:05:30 +0000

**This is Part 2 of the “Upgrading your Wireless Card” guide and is continued from part 1. Part 1 explains the benefits of upgrading your wireless card while part 2 is simply a How To.** This post was delayed by about 10 months due to forgetfulness and procrastination. My apologies for the delay, though I believe many […]

Hardware Mod: Adding a second Hard Drive to my Inspiron 1525

Thomas — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:52:50 +0000

That’s right, I’ve added a second Hard Drive. But you’ve got to read on to find out how.

Hardware Mod: Spray painting my Inspiron 1525 bezel black

Thomas — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:14:40 +0000

Recently, user Alexander Brown decided to mod his 1525 by painting his bezel black. Intrigued by this, I decided to follow Alexander’s example and paint my bezel black also. 4 coats of spray paint, one angry neighbor (I did it out behind my apartment complex), and 12 hours of drying later, I had a black […]

Enabling OS X’s Bluetooth On/Off Switch

Thomas — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:28:51 +0000

One of the vast options available to you when you purchased your Inspiron 1525 was the addition of an integrated Broadcom Bluetooth chip. Dell was offering it for an extra $25, so I jumped on the opportunity of having one extra means of connectivity. Three years and many experiences later, I’ve probably used the Bluetooth […]

Hardware Mod: Upgrading your Wireless Card- Why

Thomas — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:57:16 +0000

There comes a time in every mans life when he realizes that his laptop just isn’t running as fast as it once was. He can reinstall the Operating System, but it’s still won’t feel as fast as he remembers. Previously, we covered why upgrading your processor is a wise decision. But once you’ve completed that […]

Hardware Mod: Upgrading my processor for a much needed speed improvement

Thomas — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:38:30 +0000

I hate to say it, but my Laptop just isn’t running like it once was. Everything seems so slow and takes forever to run. I tried a reinstall of OS X, but that didn’t seem to help. Things aren’t much better in Windows either (not that I would expect them to be). I’ve already upgraded […]

How to Remove a Dell Inspiron 1525 Keyboard

Alex — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:31 +0000

Since most of the people visiting this site are probably rocking an Inspiron 1525, I figured we should write some hardware-related stuff. Having OS X running on non-apple hardware means nothing if your hardware doesn’t work. One of my gripes with the 1525 is that the keyboard is prone to getting dirty; the keys almost […]

Inspiron LCD Gone Bad

Richard — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:08:20 +0000

Why did it have to happen to me? An issue I can’t resolve — broken hardware. I woke up this morning, opened my laptop and bam… heard a strange sizzling noise for about 2 seconds, then my screen went blank. “Strange,” I thought. I figured it had something to do with rouge permissions or Power […]