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post #1 of 4
3/31/08 at 9:14pm
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Being a student I like to buy a lappy small that I can carry around and perhaps do gaming from time to time. i'm from Canada so is this a good price for this config?

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache)
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition, English
Jet Black Color with Matte Finish
4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 Dimm
High Resolution, glossy widescreen 14.1 inch display (1440 x 900)
128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 8400M GS
Windows Vista™ Premium
250G 5400RPM SATA HDD
Blu-ray Disc Combo (DVD+/-RW + BD-ROM)
Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition
Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Mini Card
Integrated Webcam Integrated 2.0 Megapixel Webcam
Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)
56 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery

TOTAL1,369.00


Good price?
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post #2 of 4
4/1/08 at 1:03am
Its OK, but a couple of suggestions to drop the price:
- Cut the Blu Ray drive and go with DVD... unless you have a lot of Blu Ray movies, as it is probably not worth the price premium otherwise given that the screen resolution is < Full HD (unless you have a Full HD 1080 TV you are going to be hooking up to....).
- Unless you have a 64-bit operating system to install, cut the RAM back. In 32-bit Vista or XP you will not be able to address the full 4GB.

Stu
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post #3 of 4
4/1/08 at 12:51pm
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i was thinking about supersizing the hard drive to 320gb. the deal came with the blu ray drive so don't have a choice.

only problem is the video card could be better but dell doesn't offer upgrades.

yeah i'm using the 64bit, thx for the advice. i'm trying to make this baby into a tank for under 1500.
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post #4 of 4
4/1/08 at 10:05pm
Looks good then! Wanna make it a 'tank', upgrade the hard drive to a 7200rpm model instead. It may require a downsize in drive capacity but you can always get an external hard drive later if meeded relatively cheaply.

Stu
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