Inspiron < ( Vostro | Latitude ) < ( XPS | Precision )
The Inspirons are meant to be cheap, as cheap as possible. Here you will find thinner plastics, less screws, and crappy key travel. The finish is typically high...
http://ark.intel.com/products/33917/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-T9300-%286M-Cache-2_50-GHz-800-MHz-FSB%29
The T9300 is probably just a less stable T9500 so it was sold clocked lower. You have the SAME stats as mine except the...
You will be fine buying a sata2 drive. I can't even imagine sata1 devices still being sold.
That said I have seen and bought 120 gig sata3 SSDs for around $100 bucks. I don't really see a reason not to buy them.
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