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best dell $600 deal?

post #1 of 4
5/1/05 at 2:36am
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i think i'm resigning myself to a dell $600 deal. i think i saw one with 512mb ram among other things. it seems some deals are not as good as others. this laptop will be just for basic usage like web surfing and word processing, so a celeron M is fine.
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post #2 of 4
5/1/05 at 3:09am
have you tried the dell outlet? sometimes they have some pretty good deals on celeron M lappies..
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post #3 of 4
5/1/05 at 3:19am
Seems everyone loves to laught at the celeron line of processors. At first they had a major design flaw that was corrected within 6 to 12 month.

My Celeron runs Windows 2003 Enterprise edtion, I've also dual booted it with several different variations of linux, XP Home/Pro and Win2k. Runs them all with similar speed as I precieve it. Now I also running whole disk encrytion full time with win 2003 and boots faster that a account with Win 2003 and a Xeon processor.

I did make the correct decision and jacked up the RAM to the system boards max which on my model is 512. If you have no plans on doing 3D gaming, it works great and under normal usage as fast as a pentium to the person using it. If you are concerned with speed your money is best spent on increasing the RAM. Biggest bang for the buck.
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post #4 of 4
5/1/05 at 9:59am
ram is the best bang for the buck upgrade.

however, AMD cpus, such as the retired XP-M or the nes Samptron is a better CPU bang for the buck over a Celery
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