Well seems that dell will be sending a replacement for the replacment m1730 they sent me a few months back. it seems that a few things were changed in the configuration. in this configuration ill be getting a 2.4ghz processor. anyone think i will see much of an impact in performance compared to my old X7900, 2.8ghz?
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