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Answer» Larry - Best of luck with your choice. Let us know what you decide and how you like it.Hello everyone,
Don't know if this is the right place to put it but you folks helped in the decision making, so here is what we are contemplating at this time.. cost $578 through Dell Small Business (doesn't include taxes and 3-5 day shipping is free at the moment)..
Vostro 1000 laptop:
AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Processor TL- 60 (2.00GHz 512K) V1KTL60 1 [223-0529] 1
Operating System:
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium, Service Pack 1 VHP31E 1 [420-6581][420-7293][420-7658][420-8709] 11
Productivity Software:
Microsoft® Works 9. Does NOT Include MS Word WKS9ENG 1 [420-8046] 22
Limited Warranty, Services and Support:
1 Year Basic Limited Warranty plus 1 Year Mail-in Service S1YOSMI 1 [983-3920][986-5020][988-6059][989-5817][991-2878] 29
LCD Panel:
15.4 inch Wide Screen XGA LCD Display with TrueLife 15WXTL 1 [320-5883] 2
Memory:
2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHZ, 2 Dimm 2G2D 1 [311-7344] 3
Hard Drive:
120GB 5400RPM Hard Drive 120G54K 1 [341-4971] 8
Optical Drive:
24X CD Burner/DVD COMBO Drive with Cyberlink Power DVD 24CMBON 1 [313-5388] 16
Video Card:
ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory™ (integrated) UMA 1 [320-5631] 6
Wireless Cards:
Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Wi-Fi Internal Card DW1395 1 [430-2733] 19
This doesn't include the rest of the bells and whistles, Adobe, etc. The jury is still out on whether we get it with Word (costs extra)
Again, thanks for all the help and you may be hearing from me again..
Larry
Looks nice - just a thought or two!
a) If you can, get a discrete video adapter with 512 MB of it's own memory.
b) If not a) and you stay with the built-in video, be advised that the video will "share" system RAM (this is the polite way of saying,"Will steal RAM from the main memory and reduce the amount available to run programs"), therefore, increase RAM to 3-4GB.
c) If you will mainly use the laptop plugged in (i.e., battery life is not critical), consider a 7200 rpm hard drive instead of the 5400 rpm. Plus = much quicker hard drive response (opening programs, files; saving files; installing programs; running VIRUS checks), on the order of 10 - 20% faster; minus = lower battery life (not drastic), slightly more heat.
Best of luck!
Quote Apologize for being a little tardy 100 lashes!!......just kidding QuoteIf you can, get a discrete video adapter with 512 MB of it's own memory It's laptop.Quote from: Broni on August 26, 2008, 04:54:02 PMQuoteIf you can, get a discrete video adapter with 512 MB of it's own memory It's laptop.
I know - maybe the wrong choice of words (discrete video adapter), but laptops have video choices. I was specifically thinking of the GeForce 8600M series or the 8400M series (256 MB). I don't know what Dell offers but HP offers several choices.I see...all clear I was just thinking of running Aero without bogging down the rest of the system.
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