I recently bought a dell 1520 with a gforce 256mb 8600, I had some problems so I exchanged it with dell and they sent me a system with almost everything the same, except a nicer lcd, 3gig's of ram instead of 2, and a gforce 256mb 8400.
I overall get a better notebook, but don't know if the diffence is that big with the video cards, that I should be as pissed off about it as I am. Just wanted some other opinions before I open the new system.
Thanks for the info, I was pissed off for a minute, but I opened the system and although all the paperwork they gave me says 8400, when I turned it one it says it is an 8600. Maybe some guy at dell felt bad for me and decided not to waste my time or money. Now I just need to make sure it burns DL dvd's and I'm good.