A notebook in my life
I recently bought a notebook with the help of my good friend Mubeen, who bore an hour with me on Skype giving recommendations and adding the components as we went from site to site. It is of course his credit card that I am using to make the purchase, so I will be indebted to him for money for a few days and his help for life. This is what we settled for in the end:
PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5200 (1.66GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB) OPERATING SYSTEM: Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic
LCD PANEL: 15.4 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WXGA+ Display with TrueLife™ MEMORY: 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 Dimm
HARD DRIVE: 100GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
OPTICAL DRIVE: 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
VIDEO CARD: 256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory™
WI-FI WIRELESS CARD: Dell Wireless 1390 802.11b/g Mini Card (54Mbps) BLUETOOTH WIRELESS: Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)
SOUND OPTION: Integrated Audio
BATTERIES: 53 WHr 6-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Network Card and Modem: Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
After making my calculations, I found out that the entire laptop + bag and the delivery charges might take the amount for this thing up to 1100$ which is a steal if you change that to euros as then it sums upto 850 euros. Here, a laptop with the same qualities will be on the 1200+ euro range and will be of some totally useless company like HP and Acer. Its not to say that those companies are bad, its just that, they do not stand a chance when we talk about Dell. My opinion and that of my friends has been that Dell always offers best value for price and I stick to that still. now the only thing that remains is to hold that notebook in my hand and test its capabilities.
4 comments:
OK dude so with this at least you can get comments.
Congrats! Sounds like a cool machine and I bet you'll have loads of fun with it.
Though I won't have you dissin' HPs. Coz' the one I have (souped up HP DV2000) kicks all the Dell Inspiron ass at work here :P
However, you may be right about best value for price but in my case that wasn't a factor (company provided).
And for the last time; ditch Vox! It may be pretty but its dumb - reminds you of the stereo-typical blonde doesn't it? If you can't receive comments on a blog easily, it is dumb and useless.
OR you can call it something that resembles Apple computers. not everyone really appreciates Apple once they start using it. (Although I was the one who hated it) but that is not normally the case.
If you guys couldve just joined vox for giving comments, it would have been easier for me. trust me, it doesnt take a big for to fill out the form. also its easier than doing the word verification like you do on blogspot. Just go there, it asks if you want to sign in, you click that and the password and username are already entered, sign in and then just give a comment. much easier... you dont have to make a blog if you join vox though. Anyway, I'll keep both the blogs up.
Also, you dont have take HP's side. You do not really appreciate anything unless you pay some bucks. Mubeen has used HP before and according to him, it sucks and i agree
LOL... I think the Apple analogy would be taking it too far man! :)
BTW, blogspot didn't make me fill out any verifications and anyhow, since you're posting here as well its all cool with me.
Regarding HPs or Dells sucking, its not fair to make a blanket statement but I'm just comparing the HP I have with the Dells my colleagues have and there's quite a performance difference on similarly configured machines in favor of my HP. I'm talking looks as well as performance. I also think you can be less biased and more objective if you are analysing something in which you've not invested in yourself.
Adios!
It also depends on the users. Mubeen is a guy who keeps on optimizing his machine, so I will weigh his opinion way more than any of your colleagues, also, he has been a user for both the machines.
When you have not invested in the machine, then anything you get has never been looked into repeatedly and compared. When you put in money, you make all the comparisons before you buy it. In any case if you just see the ZDnet reviews, the editors have always given dell's notebook better points.
As for verification, i took that option out
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