Well gang, the wife has been wanting a new laptop. No doubt her current one is a dinosaur.
So she put her ducks in a row and comes to me and says, "I got X amount of money, go online and find me a good laptop.".
I go looking, and with the budget rubbing up against the performance and all, I came up with this solution.Dell Inspiron 5100
Did a bit of fiddling based on the particular user vs. price and configured it with.
P4 2.4G (that's a full bore 2.4 -- not an m class or Celeron)
384Mb 266 DDR
30Gb 5400RPM HDD (saved a few bucks over the 40Gb - she never filled up 3Gb previously)
15" SXGA+ screen
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 16Mb (as she's not a gamer, again shaved the bottom line with this option)
Combo drive - 24x10x24 CDRW + 8x DVD (free upgrade) :D
She demanded that a carrying case be bought at the time of purchase, and for ease of use I had them include a USB optical scroll mouse as well.
Primarily, it will be used while plugged in so only getting 1 battery with about a 3 hour charge.
This pretty much falls into the category of a "desktop replacement" notebook, and should give her plenty of options/power.
2 drawbacks I see;
1.) It's a fixed drive (not the best design in my opinion)
2.)Running Windows XP (not installed by me, so my record is clean still) :laugh:
OK, so she'll have 3 times the computing power that I have --- so what, I can still do more:p Except for the DVD:cry:
Anyhow, dollar for dollar I think it blows away the other notbooks I looked at.
What do you think:?:
Is it a keeper, I got 30 days to send it back?
So she put her ducks in a row and comes to me and says, "I got X amount of money, go online and find me a good laptop.".
I go looking, and with the budget rubbing up against the performance and all, I came up with this solution.Dell Inspiron 5100
Did a bit of fiddling based on the particular user vs. price and configured it with.
P4 2.4G (that's a full bore 2.4 -- not an m class or Celeron)
384Mb 266 DDR
30Gb 5400RPM HDD (saved a few bucks over the 40Gb - she never filled up 3Gb previously)
15" SXGA+ screen
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 16Mb (as she's not a gamer, again shaved the bottom line with this option)
Combo drive - 24x10x24 CDRW + 8x DVD (free upgrade) :D
She demanded that a carrying case be bought at the time of purchase, and for ease of use I had them include a USB optical scroll mouse as well.
Primarily, it will be used while plugged in so only getting 1 battery with about a 3 hour charge.
This pretty much falls into the category of a "desktop replacement" notebook, and should give her plenty of options/power.
2 drawbacks I see;
1.) It's a fixed drive (not the best design in my opinion)
2.)Running Windows XP (not installed by me, so my record is clean still) :laugh:
OK, so she'll have 3 times the computing power that I have --- so what, I can still do more:p Except for the DVD:cry:
Anyhow, dollar for dollar I think it blows away the other notbooks I looked at.
What do you think:?:
Is it a keeper, I got 30 days to send it back?
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