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M1330 32GB SSD & Vista Ultimate

post #1 of 3
1/12/08 at 1:21am
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So, I've needed a more mobile computer for a while and I decided to buy an M1330 from the outlet store w/the 15% off coupon. I found a pretty good deal for around $1500 shipped. :

2.2GHz
4GB
Vista Ultimate
32GB SSD
LED/Camera
Fingerprint
Intel A/G/N
Bluetooth
Crimson Red
9 Cell
1 yr Accidental Wty (will upgrade)

I don't play many games, just need a fast, reliable, mobile computer. However, I am going to install Office 2007 Ultimate & need some space. Dell has all of the backup Vista onto the hard drive and such. I think I am only left about 6-8GB left of the hard drive. I am going to put most of my songs and such on an external hard drive. I just need this for business & school. Does anybody have any reccommendations of how to configure Vista, or how to put the backup on DVD's, so I can have a bit of extra room w/o worrying about the space. I was looking for the 64GB SSD for an entire day and I found it twice, but it was gone once I tried to put it in my basket. I knew that 32GB was going to be pushing it, but I really don't hold too much on it anyways. Any suggestions of what APPS to put on the storage or how to configure it would help. Thanks
(These SSD's are fast....& the M1330's are nice!!!)
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post #2 of 3
1/12/08 at 2:25am
A few items that I can think of:

Dell recovery partition (if they still do that sort of thing) takes up a few gigs.
Mediadirect (if it comes on the 1330) takes up 2-3 gigs.
Windows Vista System Restore + Shadow Copies will reserve around 15% of the drive space for backups and previous versions, and you can google how to disable it via the command prompt.
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post #3 of 3
1/29/08 at 2:35am
Do the newer Dells still have an SD memory card slot? I would just get a couple gig SD card and stuff that in for storing some files. A bunch of SD cards are alot easier to carry around than a large external HD.

Just a thought :-)
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