Dell 8600 now available

wow a 4x dvd burner option?!?

what only 4200 rpm hard drives?!?

Only 4200 RPM drives = wtf
WUXGA not available with fastest chip = double wtf
Way more expensive than an Alienware = triple wtf

Just bought my D800

Just bought it last night, figures newer vid card would come out next day. Although Im not vey convinced the FX 5600 is gonna blow the 4200 Go away. Usually newer cards get higher scores in 3dmark01 than the older ones. As for 3dmark03 hard to trust something with so much politics surrounding it. I just wanna play HL2 on the road, anyone think ill have a problem. BTW I got that deal that was floating around oh and i really needed a new printer dont have one and school starting and all, may not be the best but itll work for text and simple graphics and deal ended last night felt like i had to jump on it.
Pentium® M Processor 1.60GHz 15.4 WUXGA Display Qty: 1 Unit Price: 2,406.00 After discounts and incl ship : 2014.40
Floppy Drive Options No Floppy Drive
Hardware Support Services 3 Year Limited Warranty plus 3 Year Mail-In Service
Bundle Dell Latitude Notebook
Operating System Microsoft® Windows® XP Home, Service Pack 1
Memory 512MB,DDR SDRAM,2 DIMMS
Wireless Networking Dell TrueMobile™ 1300 WLAN (802.11b/g,54Mbps) miniPCI Card
Battery 9 CELL PRIMARY BATTERY
Promotional Offer Free Dell J740 Inkjet Printer ($79 retail value)
Hard Drive 40GB,HD,9.5MM,5400RPM
Modular Bay Devices 8-24-10-24X SWDVD/CDRW Combo Drive
Modem No Modem
Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce4 4200 Go™ 4XAGP graphics w/64MB DDR Video Memory
File System NTFS FILE SYSTEM
AC Adapter 90W AC Adapter
My first laptop ever, dont be too harsh on me

Re: Just bought my D800

shoulda got 1x128 and then 2x512 RAM elsewhere is all

actually i'll probably be buying something very similar within the next week

just debating wheather to splurge a little and get an M60. also looking at vaios. i wonder why those are so rarely mentioned here?

I really wish you could get a M10Pro in the M60.

Also, Vaios are COMPLETE crap, I've had two, BOTH were disasters. Sony customer support and warranty claims essentially go like this:

"Hello thank you for calling Sony."
"Hi, my laptop is broken or is having a problem"
"lol sucks to be you" *click*

This is almost exactly what I've been looking for: a Centrino laptop with a high-end video card and the availability of a docking station. I want a notebook that can double as a home theater PC, so I'd really prefer one that has a docking station so I can just pop it in there when I want to use it that way. I get the best of both worlds with the 8600 -- great battery life and great performance. My only question: why oh why do they still insist on using 4200 rpm hard drives? I called their sales to see if there was any way I could get a 7200 RPM drive since they're offered in the M60, but no dice. Also, their memory prices are outrageous. Still, I might just order one along with a 7200 RPM drive from Newegg and an extra 512 MB stick of RAM from crucial after I've seen some benchmarks.

Excellent Purchase

Ive heard many good things about this machine and so far as benchmarks go

configured as

1.7 ghz, 512mb ram, 4200 rpm hardrives, geforce 5650 128mb
you get rough 10k in 3dmark 2k1 (9931) to be exact adding more ram and a faster hardrive will ensure far better real world gameplay. It is expensive compared to what alienware offers but alienware cant offer a 7 pounded with a wuxga screen that runs for over 4 hours on battery and a 4x burner. then agian i do not like mobile burners since there are too many drawbacks. thats just me though.

LOL
you may very well be right

damn, i wish it was was easier to discern the outspoken opinions of the disenchanted few from fact

i would have never installed xp for example if i listened to a few freinds of mine that go on an on with horror stories, but its been the best OS ever as far as i'm concerned. (now watch as all the data on my drives gets magically corrupted 2 seconds after i post this)

You might really like Vaios, from my experience though, I'm going to have issues buying another Sony product they treated me so crappy.

omg 4x dvd+RW burner

btw you can have a 1.7Ghz cpu plus the good screen, the only thing I hate is the lame hd speed. 4200rpm is so stupid.

just ordered mine from the emplyee purchase program. came to about $1900 with shipping. here r the specs.

p-m 1.6, 512-2, dvr+r, 40 gb hard drive, bluetooth, nvidia 5600 go, wsxga screen.

first time ordering from dell. lets hope everything goes well, with all the horror stories floating around. i did notice that its now the nvidia 5600 card instead of the 5650 card on the customization page. was it just a typo before. anyone have any idea. sales doesnt have a clue about the basic specs even.
not even when i asked about the 2 power options available (65 w and 90 w). i guess the 90 w charges the battery faster.

thats weird it said 5650 on everything it was supposed to be better and more stable than the 5600, but i guess it was a typo or maybe the thing that said 5600 was the typo...

Yea I just ordered my new 8600 on the 28th the the University of Florida Engineering purchase program. It's a 1.6, WUXGA, 512MB, 80 Gig, geforce 5650 and the price came out to 2400 with tax and 2 day shipping.

On another note Dell sales reps and customer care have a combined I.Q. of about 50. I did however find out that there is really no differance in the 65W and 90W AC adapters. Just that the 90W was offered so that it could also be used with the D800... I am really annoyed that they have no clue about what card is offered (5600/5650) but I'm pretty sure its the 5650 which is really not a different card at all anyway, rather an overclocked 5600 from 275MHz to 325Mhz. The fact that the build pages don't allow for color clip on's is yet another flaw amd I'm kinda pissed about the whole 4200RPM HDD but at the same time a little extra Ram with no paging file will fix that for the most part. Oh and there is also another flaw in that the tech specs say Pentium-M and 512 kb L2 cache and 8 kb L1 cache which has to be wrong.

Aside from this I'm fairly excited. If anyone has spoken with Dell and recieved any sort of conformation regarding any of this plese feel free to share.

Oh one more side note...what do you guys think about the expected battery life being 4.5 hours with one battery setup and 7.5 with the secondary battery setup? Seems a little high but I'm still hopefull. Mybe with 2 batteries I could even play DoomIII for and hour or two.

a little over 4 hours for single battery and dual batteyr gets you a little under 7 hours but for heavy gaming halve those numbers

It's too bad the unit is not available in Canada... (yet?).

I would hope you can return it and get it with it with 1.6ghz and trade in the truemobile 1400 for a 1300 the 802.11a is pretty much useless and the 200 mhz will make a difference TRUST me

oh an dyou can order it with the 7200 rpm drive now