Posts by NavyDad6

Concur with the general theme of this post. I have had my laptop for almost 2 1/2 years and am waiting for Santa Rosa, DX10 vid card, Vista, 802.11n... etc. I have been tracking the advancements and think that when the DX10/Vista combo...

I am trying to wait until Q1 2007 before I get the latest and greatest from Dell, but this thread is making it hard. The M1710 is posting 3D Mark 05 scores over 3 times my best. I really want to wait until Vista, Quad Core and DX10 are...

This is the best laptop I have owned. I am not looking for a replacement until next spring when Vista/DX10/Quad core will be the new thing. That will put my 9100 at just under 3 years.

Quote: Originally Posted by cinders Obviously I'll be after a 64-bit chip to run Vista, I guess by then the Merom CPU will be readily available, what about any other 64-bit mobile chips?... Are there any more on the...

I bought in August 2004 and try to go 3 years between laptop purchases. So I will be waiting at least until Memron or whatever Dual Core 64-bit AMD chip Dell is installing in their laptops in the summer of '07. I will not buy before...

I am waiting until Mermom comes out next year. It will be around the same time that MS Vista comes out.

Quote: Originally Posted by Jericho I am going to wait at least a year or longer and then get the latest and greatest XPS or whatever it is. By then the next gen processors, graphics cards and memory will be out....

First laptop was a Dell 8200 - P4 1.6Ghz, 256mb ram, 30gb hdd, NVIDIA GForce Go 32mb video card, DVD, 3.5 FDD Still going strong for the kids.

Bought my Dell 9100 in Aug 04', which replaced a Dell 8200 that I had for 2 1/2 years. My kids still use the 8200.

I have bought a total of 5 Dell computers, two laptops (8200, 9100) and three Desktops, the latest one being a 8400 for my son. My family and I are using 4 of the 5 right now. I have never had a problem with Dell HARDWARE... but I did...