Never had a notebook before, just took the plunge with the $500 off coupon. came to $1136. it's kind of outside my budget right now but the dang coupon made me do it 
I plan to use it as a second computer for the road or just outside the house.
I ordered it on Friday and it shipped out on Sunday
tracking says it will be hear Thursday! 
When I reformat, should I delete all the partitions?
How hard is it to upgrade the HD? I purposely got the cheapest option because of this, where is the best place to get a 7200 hard drive? Ebay?
I checked and I'm getting a Samsung LCD, I guess thats good from waht I have been reading on this site.
Inspiron 8600 Intel® Pentium®M Processor 725(1.60A GHz/400MHz FSB)
15.4 WSXGA+
512MB DDR SDRAM 2 Dimms
128MB DDR ATI's MOBILITY® RADEON™ 9600 PROTURBO
30GB Hard Drive
CD ROM/DVD ROM 8X Max DVD ROM
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)
I found this forum by accident, It's an awesome site! I will do my best to contribute to it, I will post a mini review when I get mine.
I plan to use it as a second computer for the road or just outside the house.I ordered it on Friday and it shipped out on Sunday
tracking says it will be hear Thursday! When I reformat, should I delete all the partitions?
How hard is it to upgrade the HD? I purposely got the cheapest option because of this, where is the best place to get a 7200 hard drive? Ebay?
I checked and I'm getting a Samsung LCD, I guess thats good from waht I have been reading on this site.
Inspiron 8600 Intel® Pentium®M Processor 725(1.60A GHz/400MHz FSB)
15.4 WSXGA+
512MB DDR SDRAM 2 Dimms
128MB DDR ATI's MOBILITY® RADEON™ 9600 PROTURBO
30GB Hard Drive
CD ROM/DVD ROM 8X Max DVD ROM
Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)
I found this forum by accident, It's an awesome site! I will do my best to contribute to it, I will post a mini review when I get mine.
