Posts by Nynn

I also ordered an i700m on the 14th.. mine still says "In production"

Of course you may want a swap partition in there somewhere. Use Slackware... real men use Slack.

Lots of good ideas. My suggestion is USB Memory keys. Lots easier and much more universal than media cards. Every PC (well mostly) has a USB port.. not all of them have card readers.

I just ordered last night. The only things I did different in my config versus what you have here is WinXP Home -- I just couldn't justify the added $119 for XP Pro - especially when it really will not be a part of any network...

I just picked up a Dell Inspiron 700m for $955 shipped. Spent another 100 on a 1gig ram upgrade from Newegg. Small compact - perfect for just about everything but gaming.

It has it's advantages in a network. Some of the features you get with pro are very handy for sync'ing files to the network and what not. But this is for my personal enjoyment. My work laptop will have Pro and the tools I'll need...

Ordered Final Specs: Intel Pentium M 745 1.8ghz 256 Ram 40 Gig Harddrive 8X DVD Burner Pro Wireless 2200 XP Home 2 Year Ext Warranty 2 Year Complete Care Heading over to the Egg to order ram.

The more I play around with the config.. I can drop it down further by going to XP Home - and as much as I would like to have XP Pro I'm having a hard time coming up with any reason why I would need it on this system for what I intend to...

If I drop the 8 cell it takes it down to $1003. Seems you can get them for around $80 shipped off Ebay.

Quote: Originally Posted by Richard Carver How much are you paying for the 8 cell? eBay is crawling with 70 buck genuine Dell 8 cells. Just find the one with the best...