Buy This Dell Right Now?

[CostaRicaBill]

I need to buy a laptop within the week, it will be used for pokering and some graphic designs among other things. Dell is offering 20% off on their site right now, so does this Inspiron 8600 look ok for the price and specs?

Intel® Pentium® M Processor 725(1.60A GHz/400MHz FSB) 15.4 WUXGA
1Yr Ltd Warranty, 1Yr Mail-In Service, and 1Yr Technical Support
1GB,333MHz 2 DIMM
128MB DDR ATI's MOBILITY® RADEON™ 9600 PROTURBO
24X CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive with Sonic RecordNow
60GB Hard Drive at 7200RPM
Dell® Wireless 1350 Internal Wireless (802.11b/g, 54Mbps)

Price after 20% off: $1,673

[The Q]

I've been looking at getting one of these also. If you just Google "dell coupons" you can get a better code than the 20% off. Maybe not a ton, but at least 25%. I think the deals change every week and go through wedesdays. I've been hearing through the grapevine that Dell will likely have a better deal coming soon so I'm going to hold off just a little longer.

[shant]

25% off select online Inspiron Notebook purchases $999+ Coupon Code:
7JPF6$CQK3ZRBB Exp Th 11/18 5:59am CT

[mistrpug]

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1GB,333MHz 2 DIMM

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You'd probably save about $100 or so by getting 1 DIMM 512MB RAM and buying another 512 from crucial.com and putting it in yourself. It's as simple as unscrewing one screw.

[Blarg]

Outdated video card. Won't matter for poker though, but it's definitely a few steps down from the best out there. For that price, it will be no problem finding a laptop with an ATI 9800 instead of a 9600, which is a substantially better performer.

[FrogMouth]

You can get that on e-bay for about $1,000 brand new, theres 100's of them. Make sure you buy from a reputible seller.

Sorry, most dont have 1gig, but upgrade is sheap and easy, just have to find one with the 128 vid card, might have to pay in the $1,200 range if thats important to you.

good luck