Wow, great price! Someone found it for $699? Hell I may have to forget my desire to finally get a Mac laptop (Intel Macbook) and bite the bullet for a Dell for that kind of savings. Anyone RTFA? How much does it weigh and how is the LCD on this baby? I hate cheap LCD's.
The LCD is very satisfactory. DVDs play crisp and jump free. I got my machine for $650 by using the Dell EPromotion code. Actually, they upgraded the hard drive from 60 to 80gb no extra charge. Battery life is not really an issue for me as I usually have a plug in available in my car. I don't like the price of replacement and add on parts though. My son just bought a Dell laptop and loaded it down with Vista, memory and just about every upgrade you could get and he paid about %2600. Yes his screen is 17" but the weight alone on his machine is greater and they had to buy a special backpack to fit it in for about $120. I'm a value / cheap person and didn't see any reason to spend 5x the money for the few upgrades. I've had my machine about 2 months now and hope to be using it for many years to come. BTW, I only got the DVD Rom/CD Burnere. DVD burner would be nice, but I have on one my desktop and wanted to keep my price down. Also, Dell has been fantastic with their shipping. Usually get stuff within a few days from order. I don't know how they do it, but I work on PCs and order Dell machines for my customers and for the 5 times I have ordered in the past year, there has been no issues. As for technical support, I haven't had to deal with them yet. I have heard good and bad. If you have other questions, feel free to email me. Doug Yates
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Jason @ May 2nd 2006 11:14AM
Wow, great price! Someone found it for $699? Hell I may have to forget my desire to finally get a Mac laptop (Intel Macbook) and bite the bullet for a Dell for that kind of savings. Anyone RTFA? How much does it weigh and how is the LCD on this baby? I hate cheap LCD's.
cincinnatikidd @ Feb 26th 2007 10:39AM
The LCD is very satisfactory. DVDs play crisp and jump free. I got my machine for $650 by using the Dell EPromotion code. Actually, they upgraded the hard drive from 60 to 80gb no extra charge. Battery life is not really an issue for me as I usually have a plug in available in my car. I don't like the price of replacement and add on parts though. My son just bought a Dell laptop and loaded it down with Vista, memory and just about every upgrade you could get and he paid about %2600. Yes his screen is 17" but the weight alone on his machine is greater and they had to buy a special backpack to fit it in for about $120. I'm a value / cheap person and didn't see any reason to spend 5x the money for the few upgrades. I've had my machine about 2 months now and hope to be using it for many years to come. BTW, I only got the DVD Rom/CD Burnere. DVD burner would be nice, but I have on one my desktop and wanted to keep my price down. Also, Dell has been fantastic with their shipping. Usually get stuff within a few days from order. I don't know how they do it, but I work on PCs and order Dell machines for my customers and for the 5 times I have ordered in the past year, there has been no issues. As for technical support, I haven't had to deal with them yet. I have heard good and bad. If you have other questions, feel free to email me.
Doug Yates