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Bought Laptop

Dell M1330

Core 2 Duo 9300 (2.5Ghz, 800Mhz FSB, 6M L2 Cache)
4GB DDR2 RAM
128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
64GB SSD
Wireless N
TV Tuner
9-cell battery
Product (RED) — Because I’m a sucker for Africa. And oddly enough, after discounts, it was $100 less than the default black.

Main reason for purchase — Only sub-15 inch laptop on market right now with full-powered processor and SSD option. I’m hoping the SSD will cut noise and heat down a bits. Not to mention speedy start-up times. Fun! Oh, and the $698 discount. That helped too.

I was considering integrated graphics in order to extend battery life and reduce heat, but that would have delayed order by 5 days and because of Dell’s discount setup, would actually have cost $100 - $200 more .

Yes, I know the new Centrino 2 processors are coming out in a few months. I’m going to feel crappy when all the new notebooks start getting double battery life, but my current PowerBook (1.25 Ghz with 512MB RAM) is annoying the crap out of me speed and heat-wise. I’m a coder and some of the stuff I’m writing does push the CPU to the limit (sometimes by design and sometimes accidentally). And Firefox alone can bring memory usage to absurd highs. So yeah, time for a new laptop.

Tags: Dell, laptop