A new contender

[trinityvixen]

After playing around with laptops all weekend, I've finally returned to peruse the Dell store, see what they've got for me and there might be something to it. I've found one latop that looks promising, the E1505, which has the intel dual core processor. I just wish I could play with the laptop like I've done with the MacBook and the Vaio.

The E1505 is about 1.42" according Dell's website, which isn't too bad, thickness-wise. The specs I upgraded it to ran it about $400 more than the most expensive base (the usual upgrades: 1.83 GHz processor, truelife bright screen, 120 GB hard drive--though I'm debating the extra $144 to make it 7200 rpms but only 100 GB), and it comes in at under $2000 with 4 year warranty. The fourth year coverage is especially attractive to me, as that seems to be the breaking year.

I also found a small Dell for my Dad who was eyeing the tiny Vaio at the store, and I think his office gets a Dell discount, too, so I'll recommend that one.

Once again, any thoughts on this computer?

(and my apologies to jlc: I wasn't confusing you with someone else earlier, I was just thinking of someone else and wrote that while responding to you; have I mentioned that I've been awake since 1:30 am this morning?)

Comments

[jlc.livejournal.com]

Keep in mind that 7200 RPM also means much, much faster response when necessary, and that most laptop HDD controllers aren't stupid--you can usually tell it a maximum disk speed on battery. If your latpop usage pattern is much like mine, most of the time you're doing things where the faster drive helps you'll be on AC anyway. (About the only exception for me is Anime/Games on airplanes...) Also, if you do a LOT of RAM-intensive multitasking, a faster HDD means shorter time waiting on shit paging out to disk. It'd be fair to say that more RAM might help more...