kelley Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 Well I just sent off the PO for my new work laptop: Dell Inspiron 9300 17" WUXGA "True Life" Screen 2Ghz Pentium M 760 1GB DDR-2 533Mhz RAM nVidia GeForce Go 6800 256MB RAM 60GB 7200RPM Ultra ATA 8x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW Drive 10/100 NIC 56K modem 802.11 b/g Wireless 9-Cell 80WHr Batter 2x Power Cables Dell Inspiron Backpack case Bad thing is it won't ship until April 6th, but my salesman is working on getting that rushed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoolieMan Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 You're gonna love that 56K modem. It is WAY faster than 28.8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTello Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 Holy crap, it comes with a back pack too! Man, your gonna be the envy of the entire elementry school! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 Congrats Kelly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Daddy Bling Bling Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 Which Geforce is it? There are currently 2 different 6800s that differ greatly in performance, and the 6800 ultra will be out by the time you get your laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam P Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 That's not gonna be comfortable on your lap.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Which Geforce is it? There are currently 2 different 6800s that differ greatly in performance, and the 6800 ultra will be out by the time you get your laptop. The 6800 Ultra is out now, but you can only get it in the XPS2 right now and I couldn't get the price into my budget, this sytem was only $1 below my spending allowance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 What work do you need it for? Personally, I don't do anything that I could explain the requirement of a 6800 for, and as shiny as 17" screens are, I'd much rather have a 15" that is less cumbersome to carry about. You've gone down the 'desktop replacement' route, which might be necessary, but I'd personally avoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orpheus Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Holy crap' date=' it comes with a back pack too! Man, your gonna be the envy of the entire elementry school! [/quote'] It's really for smuggling all the Zima into "work." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrik Draven Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 I have a question about that Pentium "M". I have a 2 year old Dell Inspiron 8200, with a 1.8ghz Pentium M. The new XPS2, that's supposed to be Dell's new monster laptop, can only be upgraded to a 2.2ghz Pentium M. After 2 years, that's all the more horsepower I can get from a Mobile Pentium? I gotta be missing something here...help me out. I've heard that the mobile Pentium is more efficient than a regular Pentium. On the Dell forums, guys say to add about 1ghz onto the specs of a mobile, to get comparative specs of a regular Pentium 4. Really? :wtf How do they come up with that? I understand that Giga's laptop is going to have a vastly superior graphics card than my lowly Radeon 9000, and there will be much better bus speeds in his laptop, not to mention his memory refresh rate is faster than mine but, it just seems silly that the main cpu isn't much more powerful at all. In fact, I've read in those Dell forums that the Inspiron could be upgraded to a max of 2.6ghz Pentium M. What's up here? Surely the latest/greatest Dell laptop would have at least the cpu horsepower of a 2 year old laptop?? What am I missing? :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted March 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Well the new Pentium M's have 2MB cache and run on 533Mhz FSB and use DDR-2 RAM. Oh and its actually 2.13Ghz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrik Draven Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Gig - check out this system. I'm thinking about getting it. Sager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exile Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Jeez, Looks fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Daddy Bling Bling Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Gig - check out this system. I'm thinking about getting it. Sager Discountlaptops is great, I got my Sager 9860 from them with no problems and they offer just about the best prices available on Sagers. In fact, the price on mine dropped $80 after it went into production but before it shipped, and they were pretty proactive in sending out a refund check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnemaEms Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Kelley, Nice system. I got a new Dell Latitude D800 last fall from work (I do the IT budget ) and I love mine. Got the bigass widescreen display and a GeForge FX Go5650. I run Half Life 2 with almost everything maxed out and a high resolution with no problems at all. I meant, I can run work applications with no problem at all. -Dean- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted March 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Kelley' date=' Nice system. I got a new Dell Latitude D800 last fall from work (I do the IT budget ) and I love mine. Got the bigass widescreen display and a GeForge FX Go5650. I run Half Life 2 with almost everything maxed out and a high resolution with no problems at all. I meant, I can run work applications with no problem at all. -Dean-[/quote'] Yeah I spent budget spreadsheets fly on it, atleast that is what I told my boss. Also that the power of the 256MB GeForce 6800 will help my eyes out because of the monitor resolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Naah, tremble at the might of my PIII-500 workstation with its 2Mb ATi Rage. Sure, I have to put up with banding on my pie-charts, because I can't get higher than 16-bit colour on my desktop, but it's got it where it counts; I get over a frame a second out of my screensaver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted March 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Naah, tremble at the might of my PIII-500 workstation with its 2Mb ATi Rage. Sure, I have to put up with banding on my pie-charts, because I can't get higher than 16-bit colour on my desktop, but it's got it where it counts; I get over a frame a second out of my screensaver. Please tell me you are running Windows 95....98 tops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 Yuck! Of course not. Win2K here; I want to be able to make it through a working day without a reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted March 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Checked my order status, not scheduled to ship until the 9th of April, which is a Saturday....grrr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyN Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Damn that sucks. Dell used to take at most 7 days to ship out laptops capt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted March 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2005 Called and bitched and moaned to my enterprise account manager this morning as I noticed I no longer have an estimated ship date! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted April 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Lets give an update to the drama. So I still don't have a laptop. Dell has promised me that I would have it last Friday.....har har har har! I still don't have it, but they were able to locate the unit in Memphis and I'm supposed to get it tomorrow. So far Dell has removed all shipping cost and today they gave me a free Dell 1600n Network Laser Printer/Fax/Scanner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted April 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 It's here and its fucking awesome :rock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrik Draven Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 congrats man! :tu Loaded up any games? If so, what? How do they run/look? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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